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AMC Hornet badge 1971 SC/360 and 1972 Hornet Sportabout. A pair of 1966 show cars, the AMC Cavalier four-door sedan and the Vixen coupe, foreshadowed the Hornet's styling. [15] These designs showed that "AMC's stylists had a very good grasp of the direction the industry as a whole would take as 1970 began."
1972 Gremlin X 1976 Hornet Sportabout. In 1970, American Motors consolidated all passenger cars under one distinct brand identity and debuted the Hornet range of compact cars. The Hornet and the later Gremlin shared platforms. The Gremlin, the first North American-built subcompact, sold more than 670,000 units from 1970 through 1978.
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In the mid-model year, the Hornet Special was introduced featuring a lower price and AMC's new 250 cu in (4.1 L) 190 hp (142 kW) V8 engine. [31] The Hornet Special models were built on a 7-inch (178 mm) shorter and slightly lighter Statesman/Wasp four-door sedan and two-door hardtop platform with Hornet trim.
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Model Products Corporation, usually known by its acronym, MPC, is an American brand and former manufacturing company of plastic scale model kits and pre-assembled promotional models of cars that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s. MPC's main competition was model kits made by AMT, Jo-Han, Revell, and Monogram.
When Nash and Hudson merged to form AMC in 1954 all the Hudson bodies were dropped for the 1955 model year. The Ambassador and Statesman received a hasty grille/taillight/trim/dash restyling to create the new Hudson Hornet and Wasp. The Nash Ambassador Six retained the Nash 252.6 cu in (4.1 L) OHV six for 1955 and 1956, V8 only for 1957.
VAM Camioneta American (1975–1983) U.S. equivalent — AMC Hornet Sportabout and Concord base model wagon; VAM American ECD (1975–1979) U.S. equivalent — AMC Hornet DL two and four-door sedans and AMC Concord DL/Limited four-door sedan; VAM Gremlin X (1976–1982) U.S. equivalent — AMC Gremlin X and AMC Spirit sedan X model equivalent