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During 1975, a society called Vitrex Industrie ( who specialised at first in building window panes and deviated articles ) bought the Marland factories in the Eure to build, in collaboration with Marland new Riboud cars. The difference between the old and the new model was insignificant though the car had a new body, new wheels, and new accessories, such as the complete hood and electric windscreenwiper. The vehicles were powered by the same 47cc engine that was started from a hand starter very similar to that found on a lawnmower. Vitrex Industrie also imported microcars from Italy ( all cars of " All Cars " ), as Marland( who first imported these cars ) also gave this license to Vitrex Industrie. At the start of 1978, Vitrex Industrie bought the " SECAM " society who built the " Addax ". The Addax kept the same name in the Vitrex range. In 1979, the Gildax arrived which was a 4-wheeled version of the Addax.. The Gildax wasn't very well known, and not many of them were ever sold. By 1980 the third generation of the Riboud had arrived and it included the introduction of a fourth wheel that saw the end of the 3-wheeled Riboud ! The company continued to make 4-wheelers with the introduction of the Garbo in 1980 that was powered by a small 50cc Peugeot engine.
