Resale values were not robust and an increasing number of buyers didn’t look at Ramblers twice.

Of course, no one (probably least of all AMC) expected the Matador to sell in Chevrolet numbers, but the fact that the Matador coupe was unable to claim a bigger slice of such a rich market segment strongly suggests it was just not in step with the trends of the time.

The Matador coupe was featured and a scale model was used as a flying car in The Man with the Golden Gun, a James Bond film released in 1974.

11, No. The Classic AMX sported VAM's in-house five-spoke wheels with volcano center caps and trim rings, a blacked out grille and a rally stripe surrounding the full length of the car with an integrated AMX emblem on the right corner of the trunk lid; the Classic Brougham had a standard vinyl roof cover with its respective moldings, wheel covers (new design for the year), standard grille and "Brougham" emblems over the C-pillar bases.

I think the Matador coupe fell into the same unfortunate trap as the outgoing Dodge Charger and Plymouth Satellite/Sebring: It was too flamboyant for people who just wanted an unassuming two-door intermediate, but not sufficiently formal to make a smooth transition to the plush velour lounge lizard era.

In early 1963, stylist Robert Nixon penned a compact fastback coupe called Tarpon, based on the Rambler American platform. To learn more about how Google uses the information they collect, see the Google Privacy Policy. From about June 1976 AMI fitted the Matador sedans with a "Heavy Duty Fleet Engine." As with anything that’s machinery, it takes maintenance to keep a car running reliably, and unfortunately, my father didn’t take care of his cars very well. "[59] The LAPD police Matadors included among other special equipment: T-2 can lights, a five-channel Motorola Motrac 70 radio, a Federal siren, and a "Hot Sheet Desk" with a Roster gooseneck lamp. Some of the AMC’s size and bulk was attributable to the federally mandated 5 mph (8 km/h bumpers), but even without them, the Matador was no compact.

The use of a fashion designer to specially create appearance packages for American cars was taken up by the Continental Mark IV in 1976.

The evaluation car was converted from left-hand-drive to right-hand-drive by an outside company for the show.

in. Dick Teague lobbied hard to build the Tarpon, which would have been AMC’s rival to the Ford Mustang and Plymouth Barracuda, both of which debuted a few months later. Despite the marketing and high level of equipment, the public saw it as the previous model. The very last sentence again is propagating the myth of Romney and Abernathy.

The SST was the sportiest model, with a 343 cu. Across the way we had an Olds dealership. Robert Wilson – have to disagree with you about AMC not making any lasting engineering/styling contributions to the automobile. Additional copper accents were on the steering wheel, door pulls, and on the instrument panel. The previous hardtop design was discontinued and the new two-door model no longer shared any body parts with the sedan or wagon. There are fans who still insist it was the best-looking domestic car of the seventies, a judgement that in our view says more about contemporary American design than it does about the Matador.

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