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The roots of the unique off-road supercar Aixam MEGA TRACK go back to the mid-70s, when in France, at the height of interest in microcars, which were allowed (and are still allowed) to be driven without a driver's license, the Arola company appeared.
The company from the suburbs of Lyon succeeded in this very specific business.
At the peak of its popularity, Arola produced up to 4, 000 tiny plastic cars per year. Not bad, considering the low cost of microcars and rather exorbitant prices.
In 1983, Arola declared itself bankrupt and soon came under the control of an enterprising businessman named Georges Blanc, who made his fortune on the stock exchange.
Thus, on the production facilities of the extinct Arola, a new company, Aixam Automobiles, was born.
Under the active management of Blanc, the company flourished, as funny as it may sound in relation to a microcar brand.
In just four years, Aixam took the title of the largest French manufacturer of – yes, you guessed it! – microcars from Microcar.
Later, the brand's share in the segment grew to 50%, allowing Aixam to become the largest player in Europe.
In a nutshell, the secret of Aixam's success is primarily in the approach. Georges Blanc treated such a frivolous, as it seems to us from the outside, business with the utmost seriousness.
Therefore, the “exams” stood out from their competitors with an emphatically reverent attitude to design, safety and comfort.
For example, the 400i Twin model, which debuted in 1991, became the first microcar in France with a liquid-cooled engine, and three years before that, Aixam successfully passed a quite adult crash test according to the European regulations of that time.