People forget, those things were fairly popular in their day. Head stylist Dick Teague did the best he could, considering that his original design specs were for a much smaller car with a Wankel engine. Budgetary woes dictated that it had to go on an existing underbody.
In high school, I dated a girl whose parents were AMC people, they bought her a new burgundy one with the indian blanket rust, red, burgundy and off white upholstery. You can’t say it didn’t have personality, lol.
* The GM Wankel, If my memory is correct, they were to be a customer.
* The one they spent some 2 billion late 60's early 70's dollars to design, develop and production tool for.
* One of my gnomes told me they made 1 or 2 for tax purposes off the production line then scrapped it all.
Dang shame, now Mazda has killed their Wankel for good.
With it's smooth-ness and small size, I can only imagine how much different the Pacer would have been with the GM Wankel.