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The Supercharged Auburn is one of my favorite cars, but Studebaker's use of superchargers was over a longer run. Also their 1953 model could pass for a 1963. Just like AMC though, Studebaker was just couldn't keep up with the tech advances of the big 3.
"Every Rambler/AMC owner whom I knew from the '60s and '70s complained of a litany of problems with those cars. In some cases, these people weren't able to admit the truth until after they dumped their lemony AMC products, but reliability and Rambler were never used in the same sentence unless "un" was tacked onto "reliable"."
I had a 1960 Rambler station wagon that was a great car, as long as it was cool or cold out. However, if the ambient temperature went much above 70 F, it would overheat.
I owned several Eagles; station wagons, a sport coupe, a 4 door sedan, and an SX/4.
At the time, they were, IMO, the best car ever made for a Montana winter! The last wagon I had I sold to a gal who ran a rural newspaper route, and she turned it over 200,000 miles. It was still going strong the last I heard. The SX/4 was more fun than a basket of kittens! I wish I still had it. I feel the same about the 4 door sedan, it was a great car!
The AMC Eagle 4X4 cars were built from 1980 thru 1987, then Chrysler killed the line. Chrysler had nothing to do with the REAL Eagles!
"...Studebaker was ahead on stuff too with their superchargers and Avantis."
Ahead on superchargers?? There were many cars in the 1930's that had superchargers. Kaiser had a supercharger on the Manhattan and Darrin in 1954/55.
Yes, the Studebaker Hawk and Avanti were hot cars for their time, but they used old technology.
Two of Eagle's first models, the Eagle Premier and the Eagle Medallion, were designed by AMC in cooperation with its former corporate partner (and 46.4 percent owner), Renault.[2] The remainder of the brand's cars were simply rebadged versions of cars sold by other Chrysler Corporation divisions, as well as some captive imports produced by Mitsubishi Motors.
Funny that both AMC, and Michigan have failed economically, and George Romney was at one time in charge of both? Did he ever work for GM?
There has to be a smart ass on these boards all the time.
Michigans economy is at a 10-year high and is the sixth-fastest-growing economy in the country. We've added 267,000 private sector jobs since our low point in 2009, when the unemployment rate hit 14.2 percent. The bulk of those jobs—182,000—have been created in the past two-and-a-half years. George Romney was a good governor for your info unlike his son.
So much for your smart ass remarks. I guess you like to see people suffer if GM went belly-up ,you must live on others peoples misery. You have no idea on how big GM is they have business in every state and some how you would of been happy to see working people be out of a job. You are a real pice of humanity.
There has to be a smart ass on these boards all the time.
Michigans economy is at a 10-year high and is the sixth-fastest-growing economy in the country. We've added 267,000 private sector jobs since our low point in 2009, when the unemployment rate hit 14.2 percent. The bulk of those jobs—182,000—have been created in the past two-and-a-half years. George Romney was a good governor for your info unlike his son.
So much for your smart ass remarks. I guess you like to see people suffer if GM went belly-up ,you must live on others peoples misery. You have no idea on how big GM is they have business in every state and some how you would of been happy to see working people be out of a job. You are a real pice of humanity.
Wow, such a swift rush to judgment about my personal ideology? too bad you're really off base.
Prior to the late 60s, AMC's motto was the only race they want to win was they human race. They made practicable and efficient cars. What if they kept that motto going for more efficiency instead of pushing for performance? They could have been the only American car company ready when the fuel crisis hit what if they hadn't devoted so much resources to the Pacer, especially after the rotary engine deal fell through? Their Rambled and Hornet were both good. In a case of too little too late, they had a well ahead of its time crossover vehicle in the Eagle. It was actually a very nice looking crossover. Looking back at their history, they had even made truly small cars when others were making land yachts. Had they continued developing and refining such vehicles, they could have been in position to compete with Japanese brands in the 70s.
Besides the Rambled, Hornet, Javelin, & MAX, are there any other AMC cars you liked?
The Pacer was a bold attractive advanced design/styling for its time by US standards. It was wider than an RR Silver Ghost! It was not small. They had different sized doors for access reasons. It was to be a break from the mould body design and driveline. GM let AMC down. If this car had the Wankel engine it may be now in legend status. GM let themselves down as the Wankel did not have the problems they cancelled it on. GM were ahead of Mazda for sure, as were Curtiss Wright. They both had some very high mileage cars without any tip seal wear.
In the 1970s the US was making cars like this and people thought they looked good. No kidding.
That's what my parents had, only in the station wagon version. Color was "powder blue"The thing was hideous!
People will laugh, but I like the Pacer. Shame they never put a Wankel in it.
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