AMC Concord
American Motors Corporation
Production1977–1983
Engine122 CID Audi/Volkswagen / VW List of discontinued Volkswagen Group petrol engines#90-115 hp 2.0 / EA831 Straight-four engine / I4 / 151 CID General Motors / GM GM Iron Duke engine
American Motors Corporation
The AMC Concord is a compact car manufactured and marketed by the American Motors Corporation for model years 1978 through 1983. The Concord was essentially a revision of the AMC Hornet that was discontinued after 1977, but better equipped, quieter, and smoother-riding than the series it replaced. It was offered in four-door sedan, two-door coupe (through 1982), three-door hatchback (through 1979), and four-door station wagon with a rear liftgate.
The Concord was AMC's volume seller from the time it appeared until the introduction of the Renault Alliance. The car was available as a sports-oriented two-door hatchback AMX model without any "Concord" badges or identification for the 1978 model year, as well as the Concord Sundancer convertible during 1981 and 1982, an authorized conversion sold through AMC dealers. Vehiculos Automotores Mexicanos (VAM) assembled and marketed modified Concord versions in Mexico as the VAM American, including a unique VAM Lerma model. A battery electric (BEV) conversion of the Concord station wagon was sold independently from AMC by Solargen during 1979 and 1980.
From the Wikipedia article AMC Concord, CC BY-SA.
Among the 23 American Motors Corporation entries in the MotorJury library, the AMC Concord holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1977. 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 Concord properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1970s were the decade the oil crises rewired the industry — emissions rules, safety bumpers and fuel economy suddenly mattered as much as horsepower, and Japanese manufacturers went global. 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 BMW BMW 7 Series, the GM (General Motors) Saab 900, the Ford Ford Fiesta — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the AMC Concord reads like this: the record lists its engine as 122 CID Audi/Volkswagen / VW List of discontinued Volkswagen Group petrol engines#90-115 hp 2.0 / EA831 Straight-four engine / I4 / 151 CID General Motors / GM GM Iron Duke engine ; kerb weight is recorded at 2851 lb (base); drive goes through 3-speed TorqueFlite Automatic transmission / automatic / 3-speed Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed manual / 5-speed manual; 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 Concord sits alongside the AMC AMX, the AMC AMX-GT, the AMC AMX/3, the AMC Ambassador. The record names the AMC Hornet as its predecessor and the Eagle Medallion as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Dick Teague. Assembly is recorded at United States: Kenosha, Wisconsin (Kenosha Engine / Kenosha Assembly) / Canada: Brampton / Brampton, Ontario (Brampton Assembly) / Mexico: Mexico City (Vehículos Automotores Mexica.
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