View post: This is The Weird, But Smart Reason Why Luxury Cars Don’t Have “Real” Names The AMC Gremlin is the automotive equivalent of that one obscure vintage band tee you refused to throw out ...

In 1970, two very different American compact cars tried to answer the same question: how to keep drivers from defecting to small imports without asking them to give up Detroit comfort and attitude.

[This story originally appeared in the Fall 2010 issue of MotorTrend Classic] A big, nasty storm struck the American automotive market in 1959. It washed some 615,131 imported cars ashore, breaching ...

Back in May, Hagerty contributor and AMC aficionado Joe Ligo penned the story, “Do ‘Cheap’ AMC Cars Still Exist? Kind Of…” In it, he goes through a range of AMC models that, well, aren’t all that ...

AMC never built cars for the faint of heart. Whether you called it weird, bold, or ahead of its time, the Gremlin was a shot across the bow of Detroit's subcompact scene. And in 1973, the Gremlin X ...

American Motors Corporation was the biggest independent carmaker in the seventies, which is to say it was the other American car company at the time that mattered. And sometimes, it actually kicked ...

Gremlins have been causing trouble on airplanes at least since the 1940s, which is when Royal Air Force pilots began blaming them for in-flight malfunctions during World War II. Another, less ...