seventynine wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 10:43 pm
candymancan wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 8:04 pm
seventynine wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:46 am
Well…technically you have a Chrysler based on your signature ;~>
I see a few AMX and Javelins from time to time. They just didn’t make as many. And to be honest, the big three were making better looking muscle cars IMO.
by ownership ? But the ZJ design and Wagoneer were AMC Kaiser.
The the onky chrysler on this thing is the overhead console lol and 727 ?
I was really just joking around about the Chrysler thing on the GW. Chrysler bought AMC in 1987. The GW was baked already obviously. The Chrysler label was just a name change. I think AMC started using the 727 in their cars in the early 70’s. In the Jeeps it was 1980 to 1991.
I’m curious about your comment on the ZJ design? Are you saying AMC had this design in 1987 which ultimately came out in 1993? I don’t know anything about it but like I said…I’m curious.
The Grand Cherokee's origins date back to 1983 when American Motors (AMC) engineers were designing a successor to the smaller Jeep Cherokee (XJ).[1] Three outside (non-AMC) designers — Larry Shinoda, Adam Clenet, and Giorgetto Giugiaro — were under contract with AMC to create and build a clay model of the replacement model, then known as the "XJC" project.[2] However, the basic design for the Cherokee's replacement was well under way by AMC's in-house designers and the 1989 Jeep Concept 1 show car foretold the basic design.[3]
The Grand Cherokee was the first Chrysler-badged Jeep product. Development work for the new model continued and Chrysler employees (after the 1987 buyout of AMC) were eager for a late-1980s release date; however, then-CEO Lee Iacocca was pushing for redesigned Chrysler minivans, thus delaying the Grand Cherokee's release until late 1992 as an Explorer competitor.
The Grand Cherokee debuted in grand fashion at the 1992 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. Then-Chrysler president Robert Lutz drove Detroit mayor, Coleman Young up the steps of Cobo Hall and through a plate glass window to show off the new vehicle. Production of the Grand Cherokee started shortly afterward in the purpose-built Jefferson North Assembly in Detroit, Michigan and has remained there since.
This pic is AMC's design that Chrysler concept built in 1989. So YES the ZJ is the last AMC vehicle
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.