Rambler Rebel
American Motors Corporation
American Motors Corporation
The Rambler Rebel is a series of automobiles manufactured by the American Motors Corporation (AMC) of Kenosha, Wisconsin, across two distinct periods: from 1957 through 1960 and again for the 1966 and 1967 model years. The Rebel is significant in automotive history with its introduction for the 1957 model year as a singular, high-performance model. Available only as a four-door hardtop, it is widely recognized as the first factory-produced intermediate-sized high-performance car, effectively pioneering what would later be known as the "muscle car" market segment. It was among the earliest production vehicles to offer electronic fuel injection, showcasing AMC's technological initiatives. The Rebel name was expanded for use on 1958 through 1960 Rambler models featuring a V8 engine as standard equipment. Available as sedans and station wagons in two trim levels, they largely mirrored the Rambler Six models.
The Rebel nameplate was reintroduced for the 1966 model year as a premium, intermediate-sized two-door hardtop model. For the 1967 model year, AMC consolidated its newly designed intermediate line under the Rambler Rebel name. This change was pivotal for AMC. The long-standing "Rambler" marque was dropped from the intermediate-sized models, and they were rebranded as the AMC Rebel beginning with the 1968 model year. Beyond its domestic production in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Rambler Rebel models were assembled at the former Nash Motors plant in Toronto, Canada, until the facility closed in July 1957. Canadian-market Ramblers were then imported from Kenosha until AMC established
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Among the 23 American Motors Corporation entries in the MotorJury library, the Rambler Rebel holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
The record does not fix a firm introduction year for the Rambler Rebel, which is itself informative: cars without a clean launch date are usually prototypes, coachbuilt specials, or models whose history was written down long after the fact. The catalogue keeps them anyway, because the odd corners of the record are where the interesting machines hide.
On paper, the Rambler Rebel 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 Rambler Rebel sits alongside the AMC AMX, the AMC AMX-GT, the AMC AMX/3, the AMC Ambassador. It was succeeded by the AMC Rebel. Assembly is recorded at United States: Kenosha, Wisconsin / Canada: Toronto, Ontario (Danforth plant: 1957) / Canada: Brampton, Ontario (Brampton Assembly (AMC) / Brampton Assembly: 1966–1967) / Belgium: .
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