Posted on 08/16/2022 5:45:11 AM PDT by rktman
Did AMC ( and before that Rambler / Nash ) make reliable vehicles ? My uncle owned an AMC dealership in CT in the early 50’s to mid 60’s when he passed away and his son took over . I had a friend who had a new Javelin around 1970 ( he was older - 19 ) but I don’t remember much about it .
“Imagine the Daytona 500 in silence.............................”
OMG That’s a HORRIBLE thought. You could actually take a nap while seated in the stands.
Big mistake.
AMC was a joke, kinda like Saturn. In fact American automakers have made very few exceptional vehicles.
From MOPAR to Fiat........ that is the journey.
Like present day Volkswagen, Fiat-Chrysler is an amalgamation of failing car manufacturers all trying to save brands that are incapable of surviving alone. Chrysler is one of those near failures.
Chrysler is Jeep. The muscle cars have no market at present, at least not large enough to permit survival. It may be that Jeep is supporting the whole tangled mess of international car manufacturer residue
The Chrysler switch to EV’s is merely disillusion. They are so far behind that they can’t ever catch up.
Pretty soon the only cars most people will be able to buy are used ... as the major car makers see declining revenue and large unsold inventories of EVs no one but the wealthy virtue signalers want.
The Chinese are in the process of cornering the market on those commodities - even if it means poisoning the ground water and rivers as well as using child slave labor.
But a lot of people in the US can raise the virtue signal flag as they save the environment ... even as they create a shortage of CO2 for beverages.
Does that mean that if have a Dodge anything you’ll no longer be able to get parts??
“America is going to look like Cuba, where people are still driving 50 year old cars.”
You got it!
And so the war against the environment escalates with this plan from Dodge. Nothing more toxic than the supply industry for building those massive automobile batteries.
American consumers are the joke, not AMC.
They would not buy a VERY dependable auto that only had their own engine, thy used off the shelf components for everything else. Transmissions. alternators, ignition systems, brakes, etc.
The engines had a couple weak points, but nothing that regular maintenance would not take car of.
I have a 33 year old 258 engine with 250,000 miles and it runs better than most 8 year old “modern” engines.
More to your point is the absolute absurdity of the goal of electrifying the entire country. If everything becomes electricity based and most everyone is on the grid, this becomes the most idiotic strategic situation ever conceived. A few well placed satchel nukes and literally everything comes to a halt. Your car becomes a paper-weight when the battery dies, food spoils in your fridge and freezers, and so forth.
Total anarchy becomes the only means of survival.
They will just change it to a 50 lap race. The crashes will be spectacular as the lead foots jockeying for early positions die out on lap 48 without enough power left to clear the track.
No more MOPAR! Following the way of the e-Corvette! Sad times!
Woke corporate management trying to ram electric cars down our throats. With government doing everything it can to reduce power generation.
Brain dead. . . .
I actually had a green Hornet. It was a wagon but I still enjoyed it because it was my first car. Had a three on the tree.
An electric Dodge Charger? What is the point? I guess its for those who’ve lost the will to live.
The leap from a tiger in your tank to the pink energizer bunny. What the hell happened America? The gelding of the American male?
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