In 1974, NAMCO started business officially and production started in a new plant in Thessaloniki. Indeed, cars on the same basis were produced around the world from Vietnam to Portugal, but the Pony became by far the most successful. The car, whose original design (Baby-Brousse) was created by a team of French engineers in Côte d'Ivoire on a 2CV platform, had been adopted by Citroën itself as part of "basic world car" project that eventually led to the Citroën FAF (the Pony and other similar cars preceded the FAF and were not derived from it, as is often erroneously reported). NAMCO would resurface in 1972, when a light passenger-utility vehicle called the Pony was introduced in the Thessaloniki International Fair, after an agreement was signed with Citroën. Only a few hundred Pony Super's were built until 1992. No matter how improved the new Pony was, it was still a far cry from the needs of the contemporary Greek market made of progressively more affluent and demanding consumers. However, the costs and prospects proved to be grossly miscalculated and the plan was abandoned. with a 1900 cc engine via Inthelco as the Desta at a rate of 20,000 per year. An ambitious plan was made to export the car to the U.S. It was essentially developed by NAMCO, since Inthelco, a German company also involved in its development, was majority-owned by NAMCO at the time. The second generation Pony had no connection with Citroën technology and was a much more modern car with Ford engines, coming in a number of versions (950 cc 45 hp, 1100 cc 55 hp, 1300 cc 69 hp and 1600 cc 54 hp diesel, in two- and four-door arrangements).
But the company would bounce back, introducing a completely new model, the Pony Super, introduced in 1985.
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Plans to manufacture other cars under license were not realized and for a moment it seemed that NAMCO would once more be out of business. The first generation Pony (Pony-Citroën) was produced until 1983 in the meanwhile, the law concerning taxation of similar vehicles had been modified.