 Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s the Simca 1000 would continue to appear well up the rankings in the French sales charts, with annual sales remaining above 100,000 without a break until 1974.In its 17 years of production, almost 2 million were sold.In the model's early years, the Italian tuner Abarth was offering modified versions of the 1000, and later Simca itself began offering a ""Rallye"" version, which helped boost the model's popularity in the motorsport community.