My Citroen Xsara VTS (cf. Peugeot 306 Gti) has an exaust cam driven vacuum pump betwixt inlet manifold and servo. I can't see how a situation could arise where there was insufficient vacuum unless you drove foot-flat to the floor and controlled your speed purely with the brake.
From the Pierburg site:
" Especially diesel vehicles, but also more and more vehicles with petrol engines are being equipped with vacuum pumps from Pierburg, which supply the necessary vacuum for supporting the brake system at the right time.
Moreover, vacuum pumps are used in connection with the central locking system, air conditioning system, automatic transmission, emission control system and other control components."
Well the latter reasons are certainly red-herrings as my car doesn't appear to have taps from the vacuum line at all, indeed the thought of tapping the vacuum lines for the sake of central locking would seem perverse. Pneumatic door locks have always been Heath-Robinsonesque at best IMO.
Intrigued,
Thomas Hood