Simca High-speed motorboat

The range Simca Vedette was a series of vehicles built and marketed in France (and Europe) by the firm Simca.

Simca had just taken an important participation in the company Ford-SAF, at the very least in difficulty in the hexagon and competitor of FORD Germany and FORD the United Kingdom, and “had thus recovered” the factory of Poissy and the range envisaged by Ford-SAF to succeed their model Ford Vedette going back to 1949.

Drawn by the offices of Ford with Dearborn (Michigan Strait), the first model presented in September 1954 was the Simca Versailles produced as from November 1954.
The range will be expanded with the models Régence (luxury), Trianon (bottom-of-the-range) and Marly station-wagon.

The engine was a V8 Ford of 2351 cm ³, with Soupape S side, developing 80 ch with 4800 tr/min. The structure of the car innovated with a frame hull replacing the design frame + hull. On the other hand the transmission remained traditional with rigid back bridge with semi-elliptic springs, direction with screw and standard roller Gemmer and old Frein without assistance. However the front suspension passed to the modern system Mac Pherson.

In 1955, Versailles was sold 899 000 Francs, is 50 000 Francs more than the 203, then marketed by the firm Peugeot.

The range will evolve/move in 1957 and the following years: passage of 6 in 12 volts, introduction of the bottom-of-the-range model ARIANE with the small four-cylinder motor of the Swallow.

With the living room 1957, Trianon disappears and becomes the ARIANE 8, the Beaulieu replaces Versailles, the Chambord replaces Regency, the Marly station-wagon preserves its name and adopts only the new front face of Beaulieu and Chambord, and a new high-end appears, the Présidence.

In 1961 the production will stop in France, but the chains transferred to Brazil will produce during years.

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the club High-speed motorboat of France

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