Editing Mathis (automobile) (section)

===Post-war===
[[File:Mathis VL333 Prototype c.1945-6 (15917138494).jpg|thumb|1945 VL 333 prototype by Andreau]]
[[File:Mathis 666 Prototype c.1946-7 (15917146044).jpg|thumb|1949 VL 666 prototype]]
Mathis was left with his Strasbourg plant which was still relatively new but which had been largely destroyed by bombing.   Mathis concentrated, initially, on rebuilding the plant, and this project seems to have been more or less completed by 1948.<ref name=Automobilia1948>{{cite journal| title =Automobilia| journal = Toutes les voitures françaises 1948 (Salon Paris oct 1947)| volume = 7| pages = 51|year = 1998|publisher=Histoire & collections|location=Paris }}</ref>

Having spent the war in United States, Mathis was not well connected with the post-[[Vichy France|Vichy]] political class.   After the [[Second World War|war]] the company was not one of the automakers included in the [[Paul-Marie Pons#The Pons Plan|Pons Plan]].<ref name=Automobilia1948/>   The Pons Plan reflected government determination to structure the French auto-industry according to priorities identified by politicians and civil servants: exclusion from it created great difficulties in obtaining necessary permissions and materials.   Nevertheless, Mathis tried to find new projects: these included the "flattened egg-shaped" 700&nbsp;cc three-wheeler (''Mathis VL333'') first exhibited in 1945.   When this failed to find favour with the authorities he switched tack, producing a front-wheel drive prototype with a flat-six (2.8&nbsp;L) engine, and an eyecatching "panoramic" style windscreen. These post-war projects failed, and the factory was only kept going by making engines for light aircraft and components for Renault. The Mathis  company closed in 1950.