Panhard Dynamic

The Panhard et Levassor Dynamic was a large French car built by Panhard et Levassor from 1936 to 1940 to replace the company's CS. It was introduced at the Paris Motor Show in October 1936 with a Streamline Moderne body by the in-house designer Louis Bionier, with wheel spats, headlights built into the wings and split windscreen pillars. It was the first French luxury car with a steel monocoque body welded electrically, without a separate chassis, and it had independent front suspension on wishbones. Early cars put the steering wheel in the middle of the front panel, a feature buyers disliked, and from 1939 it moved to the usual position. Bodies included four-door saloons that seated up to nine, two-seater coupés, a cabriolet and a limousine. The engines were six-cylinder sleeve-valve units, from 2,516 cc in the Dynamic 130 to 3,834 cc in the Dynamic 160, and the 140 sold best. It was the last production sleeve-valve car in the world.