AMC Ambassador
American Motors Corporation
Production1957–1974
American Motors Corporation
The Ambassador is an automobile manufactured and marketed by American Motors Corporation (AMC) from model year 1957 through 1974. Over its eight generations, Ambassadors were available in two- and four-door sedans, two- and four-door hardtops, four-door station wagons, and two-door convertibles. The cars were classified as a full-size car from 1957 through 1961, a mid-size from 1962 until 1966, and again as a full-size car from 1967 through 1974. The Ambassador was positioned at the top as the flagship line for the automaker, featuring more standard equipment, higher levels of trim, or increased size. When discontinued, the Ambassador nameplate was in use from 1927 until 1974, making it the longest continuously used car nameplate until then. Initially referring to a top trim level between 1927 and 1931, Nash used the Ambassador nameplate for their premium models.
After merging with Hudson to form AMC, the nameplate was first used as the Ambassador V-8 by Rambler, then as the Rambler Ambassador, and finally as the AMC Ambassador. Ambassadors were manufactured at AMC's Lake Front plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, until 1974, and at AMC's Brampton Assembly in Ontario, Canada, between 1963 and 1966. Australian Motor Industries (AMI) assembled Ambassadors from knock-down kits with right-hand drive from 1961 until 1963. The U.S. fifth-generation Ambassadors were manufactured by Industrias Kaiser Argentina (IKA) in Córdoba, Argentina, from 1965 until 1972, and assembled by ECASA in Costa Rica from 1965 through 1970. Planta REO assembled the first-generation Ambassadors in Mexico at its
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The AMC Ambassador is one of 23 American Motors Corporation models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1957. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the AMC Ambassador properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1950s were the optimistic post-war boom, when chrome, tailfins and new unibody construction met the first purpose-built motorways and sports-car racing shaped reputations. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Nissan Nissan Skyline, the Fiat Fiat 500, the Dodge Dodge Challenger — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the AMC Ambassador reads like this: the layout is FR layout. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within American Motors Corporation's own catalogue the AMC Ambassador sits alongside the AMC AMX, the AMC AMX-GT, the AMC AMX/3, the AMC Amitron. The record names the Nash Ambassador / Nash Statesman / Hudson Hornet / Hudson Wasp as its predecessor and the AMC Matador as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at Kenosha Engine / Kenosha Factory, United States / U.S. / Port Melbourne, Australia (Australian Motor Industries / AMI) / Córdoba, Argentina (Industrias Kaiser Argentina / IKA) / Br.
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