 Simca France, having invested heavily in their Brazilian offspring, then sent their top engineer Jacques Jean Pasteur to Brazil not only to streamline the production but to actually run the entire operation.By 1961 Pasteur had successfully addressed the issues and cars were being built with 98% of parts from national suppliers.In the second half of 1966 Chrysler took over as majority shareholder, after having bought 92% of Simca France.