The AMC AMX is a two-seat GT in appearance and access sports car that was produced by American Motors Corporation for the 1968 through 1970 archetypal years. The AMX was additionally classified as a beef car, but "unique amid added American cars at the time due its abbreviate wheelbase". The AMX was additionally the alone American-built steel-bodied two-seater of its time, with the 1955-1957 Ford Thunderbirds actuality the aftermost ones. To a degree, the AMX was a adversary with America's alone added two-seater of the era, the Chevrolet Corvette[3] for essentially beneath money. With a one-inch (2.5 cm) beneath wheelbase than the Chevrolet's 2-seater, "the AMX was generally apparent by the columnist as a Corvette competitor."Fitted with the alternative high-compression average block 390 cu in (6.4 L) AMC V8, the AMX offered best achievement at an affordable price. In animosity of this amount and agog antecedent accession by automotive media and enthusiasts, sales never thrived. However, the automaker's beyond objectives to refocus AMC's angel on achievement and to accompany adolescent barter into its banker showrooms was achieved. After three archetypal years, the two-seat adaptation was discontinued, and the AMX's now signature badging was transferred to a high-performance adaptation of its 4-seat sibling, the Javelin, from 1971-1974.American Motors capitalized the admired acceptability of the aboriginal AMXs by animating the archetypal appellation for achievement able versions of the Hornet in 1977, Concord in 1978, and Spirit in 1979 and 1980.
