 These efforts, while not being trouble-free, provided valuable sales of the type.During 1979, SOCATA (which Morane-Saulnier had previously merged into) decided to rename all of the Rallye series' various models, each being assigned their own individual "Gallic" names.During the early 1980s, the Rallye was eventually phased out of production in France in favour of the newer Socata TB series.