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January 31, 2009
Craig C asked:
When American Motors made cars, they were making cars using one particular body. Cars like the Concord, Spirit, and Eagle all used the same body as the Hornet. If they made a totally different car then, (different body/different engine) could it saved them financially?
How to Grow Weed
When American Motors made cars, they were making cars using one particular body. Cars like the Concord, Spirit, and Eagle all used the same body as the Hornet. If they made a totally different car then, (different body/different engine) could it saved them financially?
How to Grow Weed
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January 31st, 2009 at 8:34 am
My dad had a 74 Hornet and it was a piece of junk. AMC cars weren’t very good. Chrysler bought out AMC to get the Jeep brand which AMC took over from Kaiser or someone else.
February 1st, 2009 at 1:34 am
No, they did not have the money to do it, it would have cost too much money to develop a new body style. Much like the KCar body style that actually saved Chrysler, it was the cheepest and probably ONLY way they could have done business before they went by by…
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:52 pm
That wasn’t the problem with American Motors.
First of all, if you think that the problem all had to do with the Hornet body style, then look at the Ford Tempo / Mercury Topaz car. Looks a lot like the Hornet, doesn’t it? And that car had a long run, and it didn’t go away until Ford decided to make the Escort bigger and the Taurus smaller. So the problem wasn’t the look of that car.
AMC was a small company in a time when the only companies that were going to survive were the big companies. And people hadn’t been buying its bigger models (Ambassdador, Classic), because they were too ugly. And it had a public relations nightmare with the “Pacer”.
The smartest things AMC did were to make the Javelin, which was popular, and in the later years, to buy Jeep. The Jeep brand saved the company for a few years. But both the Javelin and the Jeep appealed to only a small percentage of buyers, and AMC still had to adapt, at a time when the big companies were the ones that were going to survive.
Look at it this way. AMC outlasted Nash, Packard, Studebaker, Hudson, and even Sears (yes, they made, or at least sold, cars).
February 5th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
AMC still technically still exists in the form of Jeep… yeah …I know Jeep is now owned by Chrysler… but the fact is they did not have the resources to develop new models any more and their relationship with Renault wasn’t the answer to serving the US market. The stockholders did the right thing when they sold out to Chrysler. Otherwise they may have disappeared completely… but at least this way the Jeep legacy still lives on. btw AMC stayed in business a few years after they sold their commercial side to Chrysler…. they continued to make and develop military vehicles (including the Hum-Vee) under the AM General name and they built a delivery vehicle for the post office called LLV. This unit was subsequently sold to GM. The American Motors Corporation may be gone but it’s legacy remains.
February 8th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
No,the pacer and matador were even uglier and a lot of there products were mutts for example the jeeps used GM engines