The engine and most of the mechanical parts were unchanged, but the car was shorter, lighter, and correspondingly made more of its 2 horsepower.
Albert Lemaître, driving the 3 hp Peugeot (No.65), was the first petrol (gasoline) engined finisher.
Five Peugeots reached the finish at Rouen - Albert Lemaître, Auguste Doriot, Émile Kraeutler, "Michaud", and Louis Rigoulot.
"Les fils de Peugeot Frères" were judged to have won the first prize, the 5,000 franc Prix du Petit Journal, which they shared equally with Panhard et Levassor.
[Notes 1] In 1910, Armand having no sons of his own, it was agreed that the two branches of the Peugeot business be reunited.