Check out the new AMC Cars for the future with these AMC Concept Cars, featuring the AMC Javelin, AMC Gremlin, AMC Pacer, AMC AMX, AMC Ambassador and the AMC Matador, Check it out in the April ...

The AMC Gremlin is one of those cars that people like to make fun of, ... The AMX concept car was based on the Javelin, but company bosses decided to use a truncated Hornet.

Beginning in 1973, AMC offered a 304 cubic inch (5.0 liter) V8 in the Gremlin, which was powerful enough to get the nearly 3,000-pound car from 0-60 mph in 8.1 seconds.

The AMC Gremlin goes on sale in the U.S. on April 1, 1970, competing with the Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto introduced six months later, in addition to imports such as the Volkswagen Beetle and ...

They had a point, but AMC’s work done to shorten the Gremlin to a 2.4-metre (94.5-inch) wheelbase and four-metre (157.5-inch) overall length made it a genuine subcompact rival to the Beetle.

It did the same with the Pacer just a few years after the Gremlin was launched, but it was the latter that was the first to take on economy car imports. AMC first came up with the concept for the ...

AMC was the master of re-use and repurposing cars, like making the Gremlin by chopping the butt off the Hornet or making concept cars all about using the fewest parts or the cheapskate way they ...

History has been unkind to the AMC Gremlin, but the truth is that the strange-looking subcompact was a great little car for its time. It’s a terrible car that wasn’t actually terrible.

Check out the new AMC Cars for the future with these AMC Concept Cars, featuring the AMC Javelin, AMC Gremlin, AMC Pacer, AMC AMX, AMC Ambassador and the AMC Matador, Check it out in the April ...

Worst Cars of the 1980s, Part 1. Worst Cars of the 1980s, Part 2. AMC Gremlin Sales Success: Buyer Preferences, Price. But the Gremlin wasn't terrible—at least buyers of the time didn't think so.