2020年11月16日 · In 1970, American Motors bought the U.S. operations of Kaiser Jeep and, on March 31, 1971, spun the military vehicle operations off into a wholly-owned entity named AM General Corporation which still builds military vehicles. IKA was sold to Renault in 1970, and the AMC-based IKA Torino and IKA Ambassador were built into the mid-1970s.

2020年11月16日 · AMC V8 Engines By Mike Sealey AMC VIN decoding Brazilian Kaiser/Willys/Jeep engines American Motors' first family of homegrown V8s is not well known to most enthusiasts, and there is a great deal of confusion about their origins.

Andrew “Jack” Griffith, previously of Griffith Motors (known for the TVR), was to take care of market testing and sales through selected Jeep dealers. After the XJ-002 was built, AMC — the merged Hudson and Nash — bought Kaiser-Jeep and purged its senior staff. Rather than being returned to Kaiser, XJ-002 was sent to Borg Warner’s ...

2020年11月16日 · Meanwhile, in a move that would have ramifications for AMC years later, Kaiser Motors made its final Manhattan models and converted its car factories to Jeep production. 1956: the Rambler returns Rambler Canada: The Little Company that Could , 114 pages, is available from James Mays, Box 47547, 1550 Maisonneuve …

A new Jeep logo appeared in 1963 in the center of Wagoneer and Gladiator hubcaps and steering wheels, as Kaiser changed from Willys Motors to Kaiser Jeep Corporation and established Jeep as a stand-alone brand name.

2020年11月16日 · Kaiser-Frazer, through Willys and AMC, eventually (aside from farm equipment and military vehicles) showed up at Chrysler as AMC/Jeep. Graham-Paige finally dropped the term "Motors" from its name and became a closed investment corporation that later operated Madison Square Garden and several professional New York athletic teams, making far more ...

From there, Kaiser sold its auto business to American Motors Corporation in 1970; eventually, in 1987, Chrysler Corporation bought AMC for $1.1 billion. The 1987 Jeep line was, coincidentally, the first ever to not have a CJ: having been completely redesigned, partly to increase its stability, it was now called the Wrangler .

2020年11月16日 · hubcaps and steering wheels, as Kaiser changed from Willys Motors to Kaiser Jeep Corporation and established Jeep as a stand-alone brand name. This emblem was a circle (in some illustrations looking vaguely like a stylized rendition of a Warn locking hub) with two gold quarters, two red quarters, and the "Jeep" name across the middle.

Hudson and Nash coupled in 1954 to become American Motors Corporation (AMC), but the combined company was both too small and too erratic to succeed, though it did survive. Hudson proudly introduced a new line of Wasps and Hornets in 1955, “new from stem to stern,” but sales fell as customers found that the “new Hudson” was in fact an ...

2020年11月16日 · After the war, Kaiser Motors was started to take advantage of the post-war car boom. As sales fell lower and lower, with the end in clear sight, an unprofitable Kaiser took over the still-profitable Willys-Overland in 1953; that provided Kaiser with international sales and a niche with far less competition, and Kaiser cars disappeared shortly ...