AMC Javelin
American Motors Corporation
Production1967–1974
Engine232 CID AMC Straight-6 engine / I6 145 hp 1-bbl or 155 hp 2-bbl / 252 CID I6 170 hp 2-bbl (1969, Mexico only) / 290 CID AMC V8 engine / V8 2-bbl 225 hp / 343 CID V8 235 hp 2-bbl or
American Motors Corporation
The AMC Javelin is an American front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, two-door hardtop automobile manufactured by American Motors Corporation (AMC) across two generations, 1968 through 1970 and 1971 through 1974 model years. The car was positioned and marketed in the pony car market segment. Styled by Dick Teague, the Javelin was available in a range of trim and engine levels, from economical pony car to muscle car variants. In addition to manufacture in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Javelins were assembled under license in Germany, Mexico, Philippines, Venezuela, as well as Australia – and were marketed globally.
American Motors also offered discounts to U.S. military personnel, and cars were taken overseas. The Javelin won the Trans-Am race series in 1971, 1972, and 1976. The second-generation AMX variant was the first pony car used as a standard vehicle for highway police car duties by an American law enforcement agency.
From the Wikipedia article AMC Javelin, CC BY-SA.
The AMC Javelin 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 1967. 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 Javelin 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 Pontiac Pontiac Firebird, the Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Spider, the Toyota Toyota Corolla — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the AMC Javelin reads like this: the record lists its engine as 232 CID AMC Straight-6 engine / I6 145 hp 1-bbl or 155 hp 2-bbl / 252 CID I6 170 hp 2-bbl (1969, Mexico only) / 290 CID AMC V8 engine / V8 2-bbl 225 hp / 343 CID V8 235 hp 2-bbl or; kerb weight is recorded at 2836 lb; drive goes through 3-speed Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed manual / 3-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / 3-speed "Shift-Command" on console; 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 Javelin sits alongside the AMC AMX, the AMC AMX-GT, the AMC AMX/3, the AMC Ambassador. The record names the Rambler Marlin as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Dick Teague. Assembly is recorded at United States: Kenosha, Wisconsin / Australia: Port Melbourne, Victoria / Port Melbourne (Australian Motor Industries / AMI) / Canada: Brampton, Ontario / Germany: Osnabrück (Karma.
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