Mercedes G-Wagen Intruder Concept by Heuliez (1996)

Founded in 1920 by Frenchman Adolphe Heuliez; Heuliez started out as a coachbuilder. Assembling his first car, a Peugeot 177B in 1925, Heuliez would continue to develop a number of bespoke projects and parts before the company would evolve from cars to coaches.

Heuliez were for the most part, a specialist production and design manufacturer for other brands. Arguably one of the last remaining coachbuilders today, Heuliez specialise in the development of select complex parts as well as developing their own fully functioning concept cars for other manufacturers. They have since completed a number of concept cars based on a number of large scale manufacturers Citroen cars but also Mercedes-Benz and Porsche.

Heuliez were fully capable of handling specialist car builds for mainstream manufacturers, saving costs by having a smaller, more efficient and flexible factory and workforce. Whilst best known for their extended partnership with Citroen, Heuliez were also a large part of a number of significant cars. Whilst working with Renault for example, Heuliez would build the 5 Turbo in its entirety. The 5 Turbo would start as a normal chassis on the production line and then face the extensive reworking to manage the 300% power increase and the change from front to rear-engine layout. With this experience, Heuliez would later produce the 205 T16 Homologation vehicles.

More recently, Heuliez was wholly responsible for the development and manufacture of specific parts for large manufacturers, most notably, the folding metal roof mechanism for the Peugeot 206CC.