AMC AMX/3
American Motors Corporation
American Motors Corporation
The AMC AMX/3 (alternate spelling: AMX III) is a mid-engine sports car produced by the American carmaker American Motors Corporation (AMC), which was presented to the Italian press in March 1970 and was to be produced in Germany by Karmann starting in 1971. AMC wanted to compete with the similarly designed De Tomaso Pantera that Ford marketed in the United States. The car's body and drivetrain were originated and developed by AMC, and Dick Teague designed the car. AMC consulted and partnered with Italian suppliers to build the chassis and suspension. The design was falsely attributed to Giotto Bizzarrini, but only specific components.
Italdesign and Autocostruzioni S.D. were involved in the development. the car never reached mass production after the official presentation. After half a dozen vehicles were built, AMC abandoned the project without giving any reason. Several attempts to revive the design were unsuccessful, including a limited production license proposal, branded as the Bizzarrini Sciabola without AMC's involvement. Later, an AMC AMX/3 chassis formed the technical basis for the 1972 Iso Varedo concept car.
From the Wikipedia article AMC AMX III, CC BY-SA.
The AMC AMX/3 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 1969. 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 AMX/3 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. 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 Range Rover Range Rover, the Peugeot Peugeot 504, the Suzuki Motor Corporation Suzuki Jimny — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the AMC AMX/3 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine: / 390 CID 4-bbl V8 340 hp; kerb weight is recorded at 1402 kg; the layout is Rear mid-engine, rear-drive. 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 AMX/3 sits alongside the AMC AMX, the AMC AMX-GT, the AMC Ambassador, the AMC Amitron. Design is credited to Dick Teague.
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