NOREV - Simca 1000 Rallye 2 - Green/Black

A now defunct brand, Simca, which stands for Société Industrielle de Mécanique et Carrosserie Automobile, is a French brand that lasted only 45 years, but those 45 years gave us some really great cars, in fact the company was folded by the PSA group, in 1979, but deigns made by Simca remained in production in the USA until 1990 (Dodge Omni), also the very last new car that was designing as a Simca, was passed to Peugeot and re badged 309 before launch, so you can see it had a future, but the PSA group deemed it too close in competition to its own models, hence the closure.

This model the 1000, was one of there huge sellers, launched in 1962 and in its first full year sold over 162,000, and it never dropped below 100,000 until 1974, three years later it was replaced, having sold in excess of two million units, so it is no surprise that the French model maker Norev has reproduced this in small scale, and in the Rallye trim it really stands out , and within the retro rage is one of my favourites.