The Types VD and V4D were both powered by a four-cylinder 1,888 cc four-stroke engine, mounted ahead of the driver.
This was a reference to their fiscal horse power, applying a system of car classification for taxation purposes recently established in France.
Eventually, in the second half of the twentieth century, more complex (and less internationally consistent) definitions of fiscal horse power would replace those defined only by cylinder diameters.
The wide range of different body types offered followed a pattern that by now would have been familiar to many Lion-Peugeot buyers.
It included a Torpedo, a Limousine, a "central steering" model and a small delivery van.