24 March – TheEuro Disneyland Project agreement is signed byThe Walt Disney Company and the French government, enabling a theme park to be built to the east of Paris. The theme park, today known asDisneyland Paris, eventually opened in April1992.[1]
May –Peugeot launches the405 range of four-door saloons; a five-door estate is to follow in 1988. It will be built in France and also at the oldRootes/Chrysler Europe factory in Britain.[2]