But it was American Motors Corporation (AMC) that first jumped on the subcompact bandwagon with the quirky-looking Gremlin. Launched in April 1970, a few months before the Vega and the Pinto ...

One of those small, cheap, and fuel-efficient cars was the AMC Gremlin, a subcompact introduced by AMC in 1970. For the first two years on the market, the Gremlin was an economy subcompact that ...