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American Motors Company Overview
Formed in 1954 from the merger of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Company, American Motors Corporation (AMC) was, at its time, considered the largest corporate merger in American history.
The new automaker competed successfully during the Fifties with its solid economy car, the Rambler. Other well-known vehicles created by AMC include sporty Javelin, the muscle car AMX, the innovative Pacer, and the Hornet compacts.
The company was considered to be ahead of its time. Unlike Chrysler (before its merger to Daimler), Ford, General Motors, and others at that time, AMC focused on building solid, small, fuel-efficient
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Formed in 1954 from the merger of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Company, American Motors Corporation (AMC) was, at its time, considered the largest corporate merger in American history.
The new automaker competed successfully during the Fifties with its solid economy car, the Rambler. Other well-known vehicles created by AMC include sporty Javelin, the muscle car AMX, the innovative Pacer, and the Hornet compacts.
The company was considered to be ahead of its time. Unlike Chrysler (before its merger to Daimler), Ford, General Motors, and others at that time, AMC focused on building solid, small, fuel-efficient vehicles. Sharing the same components among its many vehicles, unique styling, offering low financing deals, and targeted marketing separated the company from the competition.
But such competition, from other domestic automakers during the '80s to the onslaught of Japanese automakers with their own vehicles and technologies, had a near bankrupted AMC seek out an alliance with French automaker Renault. From the alliance, a first in U.S. history, came the Renault Alliance, the hatchback Encore, and, later, the Eagle. The latter would be the last time AMC would sell under its own name as it focused on selling Renault and Jeep vehicles.
Chrysler would later purchase all of AMC's remaining shares from the company and Renault (who, at one point, owned 49 percent of the automaker).
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