The Microcar Spid was a model of Microcar, the French manufacturer of licence-exempt quadricycles founded in 1980. It is recorded among the company’s former models, but little detail about it has been published: the articles on the brand list the name without production figures or dates.
Microcar Spid at a glance
| Maker | Microcar, France |
|---|---|
| Model | Spid |
| Class | quadricycle, licence-exempt car (voiture sans permis) |
| Recorded as | a former model of Microcar, in the company’s model list |
| Listed with | RJ49/RJ125, DX49/DX125, 50, Soléa, Lyra, NewStreet, Virgo, MC1/MC2, F8C, M8, Flex and M.Go |
| Company | Microcar, founded in 1980 as a division of Jeanneau |
| Company history | part of Ligier Automobiles from 2008 |
| Brand ended | Microcar brand discontinued in 2024, factory at Montaigu closed in 2025 |
The Spid is recorded only by name in the model list of the Microcar articles on French and English Wikipedia; no specifications are given there, and none have been added to this page.
History of the Microcar Spid
The name in the model list
The French Wikipedia article on Microcar lists the Spid among the company’s former models, in a list that also includes the RJ49/RJ125, the DX49/DX125, the 50, Soléa, Lyra, NewStreet, Virgo, the MC1/MC2, F8C, M8, Flex and M.Go. The name gives the Spid its place in the history of the marque but no further information: the sources do not record when it was made, how many were built or what body it had.
The maker
Microcar was founded in 1980 as a division of Jeanneau, a major French sailboat manufacturer, and worked from Montaigu in the Vendée, building voitures sans permis — light quadricycles that can be driven without an ordinary driving licence. In September 2008 the company was acquired by Ligier Automobiles in a deal backed by the Italian private equity firm 21 Investimenti Partners, which created Europe’s second-biggest microcar manufacturer and the largest maker of quadricycles. In 2014 Microcar was absorbed by Automobiles Ligier and became a brand of that company; in 2024 Ligier announced that the Microcar brand would be discontinued, and in early 2025 the factory at Montaigu was closed.
Design and features
- Licence-exempt class: a quadricycle of the voiture sans permis type that Microcar built from 1980.
- Former model: recorded among the company’s past models, not in the range of the final years (the Dué and M.Cross).
- Little documented: the published sources give the name only, without dates or technical data.
Microcar Spid versions
- Spid: the only name recorded in the sources; no separate versions are described.
Other models of the same maker are the MC1 and MC2 and the Virgo. More cars are in the Microcar collection.
Sources
- Microcar, French Wikipedia: the model list and the company history
- Microcar (brand), English Wikipedia: company history and the quadricycle market
