This is how the new and last version 125 and 250 was born, it was called S3, powered Rotax with water cooling and a new rear single shock absorber
As Rotax gave its engine exclusively to Aprilia, SWM technicians were forced to find new relations with the Italian Villa Motori in Modena.
As Francesco Villa had been forced to shut down Moto Villa too, he dedicated only to the production of engines and allowed SVM to change and personalize its propellers. This agreement was signed at the Cycle and Bike Exhibition in 1985 and ever since a series of prototypes and lay figures were equipped and they would represent the new brand.
But despite this effort, SVM’s life was short, without any relevant sports event, and after many ups and downs it shut down definitively in 1987.

SWM’s end of the long and glorious ride depended on economics reasons and to give honour to those who collaborated to reach its bright sports successes, it is fair to state that after 30 years of constant soaring (from 1950 to 1980), the 1980s were the years in which the off-road industry experienced its first period of crisis and deep recession, caused by reasons beyond the sports world but which led to the closure of a lot of companies as there were no other possible alternatives.
The after wit might realize that if national and international sports organisms had supported the cross fields, making them bigger or if they had supported the birth of “regional free zones, a sort of fixed tracks with a single equipped starting point, suitable also for the “special trial competition” on off-road fields, the market shrinking would have been less violent and a lot of beautiful stories might have had a … different ending.