Established in 1954 by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson, American Motors Corporation (AMC) became America's fourth largest automaker. The company survived for only 34 years until it was ...

The Allman Brothers called it: a Ramblin' Man is a born-into condition. While the hit 1973 song refers to a life on the road, ambling from town to town, there is a unique and underlying automotive ...

In an age of bigger-was-better, AMC's Ambassador line helped keep the company competitive in the "space" race Sleek and stylish, the redesigned American Motors Ambassador had everything going for it ...

With increasingly bigger and more luxurious cars in high demand after World War II, U.S. automakers ignored the compact segment almost entirely in the 1950s. But that changed during the Recession of ...

A further break with tradition occurred in 1966 when the Rambler surname was dropped from the Ambassador as part of an overall brand phase-out. Abernathy correctly surmised that the public linked it ...