American Motors Corporation (AMC) is mainly remembered as one of the many carmakers that failed to compete against Detroit's "Big Three," but it also built quite a few intriguing vehicles. The Pacer ...
Before the Pacer became a joke on Wayne's World, it was a serious attempt at a different kind of small car. Designed to be roomy but compact, it initially sold well. This one has been treated to an ...
Unable to compete with the Big Three, Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson merged in 1954 to form American Motors Corporation (AMC). AMC became America's fourth-largest automaker and soldiered on until 1988, ...
When a vehicle described as “hideously weird-looking” manages to outlast its critics to become a definitive symbol of an era, it's worth talking about. In an industry often defined by sleek lines and ...
View post: This is How The Citroën 2CV Became France’s People’s Car Exsqueeze me? Yes, you read that headline right. Someone has paid $71,500 for a 1976 AMC Pacer, the very one from 1992’s “Wayne’s ...
The AMC Pacer is a legendary nerd-mobile — most famously as Wayne and Garth’s ride in “Wayne’s World.” But while those two fictional metal-heads had a powder-blue Pacer with dorky flames on the side, ...
16:56, Tue, Oct 15, 2024 Updated: 17:01, Tue, Oct 15, 2024 Car design can be a particularly subjective topic, with petrol heads worldwide having heated debates over what is the most beautiful model.
Jay Traugott has been writing about and testing cars for over a decade. His passion for everything with four wheels began when he saw "Back to the Future" as a kid. The DeLorean DMC-12 remains his ...
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The AMC Pacer is really America's Austin Allegro, a Seventies car that was so uniformly inept in almost all respects that it has passed into folklore and become perversely "cool". It makes any top 10 ...
Celebrating the greatest cock-ups in automotive history. Today we look at AMC Pacer American Motors Company, or AMC, was formed in the mid-Fities with the merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and the ...
Sir-Mix-a-Lot likes big butts, and that means today's Nice Price or No Dice Pacer wagon is right up his back alley. Let's find out if this fishbowl of a car is priced to make us just as happy. The ...