The Panhard CS is a luxury car, most commonly sold with a four-door sedan/saloon body, introduced by Panhard & Levassor at the end of 1929 for the 1930 model year. It was presented as a smaller companion model to the manuacturer's 8-cylinder DS model. Publicity of the time indicated the "S" in the name stood for "surbaissées" (the cars having an "underslung" chassis.)The car was launched with a 6-cylinder in-line Sleeve valve engine of 2,344 cc, placing it in the 13CV car tax band.