My parents had a 1974 AMC Matador 2 door when I was little. My mother hated it. It was hideous to look at, and even worse at climbing hills when needed.
@@jasoncarpp7742 at some point you need to change the spark plugs and do a tune up. My 78 Matador coupe was fantastic. Of course it had the 360 AMC engine that was well tuned
@@weegeemike the 4.0 was a reworked 258 inline which was the 4.2 the major difference is simply, On the 4.0 the water jacket around cylinder number 6 is smaller! There's some minor differences but the 4.0 is a upgraded reworked version of the bigger 4.2 258 cu in...
I actually own this car. A 1983 AMC Concord DL That. except for the paint (Jamaican Beige ) is identical to the car featured here. The vinyl top and interior are the same color. I've owned a lot of AMCs and they were always good high mileage cars. I'll probably own this one for the rest of my life. It just keeps on going.
I owned an '83 the same color as the one in the intro. Was a base model, but w/ the 6 cyl. Paid $600 in '94. Had 60k orig miles at the time, and cold AC. Didn't keep it long. Was just temporary.
justjeff my condolences on the color of your car. kidding. So awesome that you still have the car. I appreciate AMCs a lot more now than I did back then. They were good cars,
Now, when I think about the ultimate Brougham, THIS is what comes to mind IMMEDIIATELY, the venerable American Motors Corporation Concord. This one has all of the plush trimmings that you would expect to find in a Cadillac or Lincoln, but even when fully loaded with every option imaginable, it STILL retailed for thousands less that any car from either of the aforementioned established luxury brands. We actually rented a brown Connie wagon on our first trip to Disney World, & I do remember crying when we had to give it back. I had fallen that much in love with it. Anyone who calls this car ugly is COMPLETELY missing the point, in my view. Is it the most beautiful car in the world? Absolutely not. However, this car was not DESIGNED to be beautiful. It was designed to be durable, it was designed to be strong. It was designed to be sturdy. It was designed to be tough.
@@bruschmidt9943 Well, in all fairness, they almost all did at that time, unless it was a Volvo, BMW, or Mercedes... at a time when European cars really shined, and weren't the over-engineered-on-the-cheap vehicles they are today.
I used to hate AMCs, now I'm starting to appreciate them. AMC was America's last surviving independent auto maker, and their product line was actually pretty good considering their financial woes. The 1980 Eagle wagon, for example, pretty much predicted the future about what Americans would be driving in another 30 years-it was basically the first crossover! This car could have and perhaps should have saved the company, but maybe it was too soon?
Heavy gauge steel body, AMC Inline 6 and a Chrysler Torqueflite transmission. That's exactly why they called it a Sherman Tank at the beginning -- all of that is bulletproof.
Chrysler did produce many Sherman tanks and their components. The companies that would merge to become AMC also provided a plethora of services to the war effort.
AMC really did soldier on with minimal tooling and spare components to call brand new but still produce reliable and somewhat competitive vehicles. I’d take a late 70’s CJ-7 with a straight 6 in a heartbeat. Simplicity and utility at its finest.
One of the most comfortable cars ever made. Solid, quite, plenty of cabin room....for its day, it drove so easily, and you felt safe in it, drove mine till I had to get a truck. AMC had its problems, but it had its glory to,and the Concord was one of them!
Neighborhood Bum, It’s mind boggling that they could build such fine cars with no money. They were pioneers, not just car builders. I’ve had 14 Rambler / AMCs......so far....
@@davidp8627 Saturn cannibalized sales from GM, which is they got rid of it. People bought lower price, lower profit margin Saturns instead of Chevrolets and Pontiacs.
No...they couldn't have. Honda built their own, entirely. AMC was an assembler of parts, some their own and some not. There's a reason they never had the budget to pull off some of the arguably best designed and innovative cars of the 1970s and early 80s. The designers were great, the engineering was a half-assed group of parts pickers who relied on other manufacturers for drive trains and components, and the managementbhad zero clue what to do with these cars or how to sell them. This car is a Hornet. In 1983 it was an eight to ten year old Hornet with zero updates.
My Dad had a '79. Comfortable and quiet, but he was disappointed with the fuel mileage. To get on the freeway you needed every inch of the entrance ramp, full throttle, to merge into traffic at 60 mph. Always dependable and no major repairs. Had it 8 years and put 130,000 miles on it before selling it.
In high school my buddy inherited his parents Concorde 82 Concorde in 92. It's true it was a tank . I remember when we just drove around because we lived in a smallish city we could jump on the hood or roof no dents , thick metal. Good times " just driving around at 16 "
Had AMC properly marketed the AMC Eagle like Audi did in the 1980s and Subaru did in the 1990s ("the beauty of AWD"), it would still be independent and make a ton of money today.
I am impressed this 1970 Hornet remodel did so well in their review. I always loved the Concord and my favorite year was the 1979 Limited model...and the Spirit was nice too.
Look at the Jeep Wagoneer as well--in production from 1963 until 1991 with only periodic trim, safety and performance updates. AMC could wring out a dime and get 6 cents change.
My '78 Concord served me quite well. Bought it at a state of Michigan auction. It had been used for beach patrol, given the amount of SAND I had to vacuum out of it. Got good use out of it, boring as it was. Good, basic, cheap, easy to work on transportation. Got me thru grad school and first few yrs of first career level job.
AMC's indestructible Inline 6 bolted up to Chrysler's indestructible torqueflite transmission. It may be slow, but it was the 1980's version of the durable Dart/Valiant all over again. It is a tragedy they didn't sell more of them.
In 2000 I purchased a 1983 Concord Wagon Limited at a used car lot with 37,000 miles on the odometer...Price $2999! Every option was on it(Leather-Power seats,door locks and windows) I drove it until 2014...It's sitting in storage now with 61,000 miles. I've only replaced muffler, tires,brakes and oil...I can let it it sit for several years then put a new battery in it and it still starts right up. Gonna try to keep it as long as I can.
AMC had great cars at a decent price and value. I miss AMC and Jeep is the one good thing left over that keeps me going. My 1973 401 Ambassador and 1985 Eagle Limited wagon are still going strong and look as good as new all these decades later. Good job AMC.🇺🇸🥇😍
That is when a car was still made or METAL! Not tin. John even mentioned it, that it is a 'tank', and made of 'heavy gauge steel'! It was a great comfortable car. Had 2 of them in my family, and they just ran and ran!...until we found another color we wanted:) A car made of actual METAL....those were the days! You could live through a crash,without 50 airbags stuffed in it, and raising the price through the roof!!
They really seemed to want to give AMC every positive they could with this car, and I'll say it: AMC deserves the praise. At this point they have kept the Hornet chassis alive and diverse for over a decade. The Hornet became the Gremlin, the Spirit, the Concord, the AMX, and the Eagle.
I also had an '83. Exact same color as the one shown in the opening of this video. I bought it in the mid 90s for $600 as a temporary car. Was like driving a car that was 10 years older than it really was. Old school all the way. After all, this car used to be the Hornet. I do believe that 83 was the end of the Concord. Just 4x4 Eagles and the new Renault cars from '84 onward.
I can remember when the AMC Concord was considered to be a compact car... Yes, I'm OLD! Us old timers are lost in today's world of plastic, computer controlled cars that all look alike. I miss the days of massive American boats, the Lincolns, Cadillac's, big American made ONLY Muscle Cars... The newest car I own is a 2000 BMW. I still have my 1975 Olds Toronado with it's 455-ci beast under the hood and my 1966 Ford XL with the awesome 429-ci with 475-hp, now that is a REAL CAR! Poor AMC, gone but not forgotten.
Nothing could hide the fact that this car was on it's 13th model year, for 1983, as it was the same basic car as the 1970 Hornet. The best part of this car was under the hood even if it was slow!
AMC built like a tank with proven tech. Not sexy in the 80's but now people realize AMC was building a car to last the long haul. If they could have only hung on another 10 years they would have left Chrysler in the dust for number 3 with their 4X4 offerings.
Sounds to me like they liked it.I love AMC's>I owner three of them and they were the most trouble free cars I ever owned.I had a 77 matador wagon that had 200,000 miles on it when I sold it.I seen that car on the road for years after that.I wish i had kept it because the Chevy,Pontiac and ford I had after that were not nearly as reliable
One of my coworkers still has one of these today, in the year 2016. Original owner. I think it looks kind of weird with it's elevated stance, aardvark like look. Looks tough. It does have the straight six banger. Tough as nails.
Owned an '82 in around 1995. Bought it for a grand and drove it til the inspection ran out. Sold it to some guy for 300 bucks (wasn't able to start). Saw it still running around my home town about 5 years ago, I wonder if it;s still alive. Man that thing was built like a jeep, in fact I think that is where a lot of the parts were from lol.
+Luke Shaver, also that same 4.2L I6, an almost bullet-proof engine in any app (my father had it in a '75 Hornet Sportabout wagon) was under that year's Jeep CJ-5 and CJ-7s hood (was on Wranglers 'til '90).
I remember the i6 in mine was held together with duct tape (for the intake). it was rough but it worked lol. being related to jeep explains the enormous springs
The 4WD Eagle wagons were built using the Jeep chassis until the parts ran out in late 1988. So 1988 was the last year for the AMC/Eagle Wagon made by Chrysler after 1987.
I can confirm, 40 years after it's production, my fully loaded 1982 Concord DL w/258 auto gets the same EPA estimated 23 mpg with all factory equipment.
Those acceleration times don't sound right to me. My '75 Hornet D/L, with 258 1 barrel and 3 speed torqueflite automatic, ran 0-50 In 7 seconds. Over 50, acceleration was slowish compared to a v8, but that was no problem in the late 80's, with a 55 mph speed limit, and new cars with pitiful 0-60times of 15+ seconds. In this modern era of powerful, fast, and fuel efficient four cylinder cars, I think that many Americans have forgotten what it was like to drive a molasses slow 2.5 liter Chevy Citation, or carbureted 2.0 liter Cavalier. Compared to such cars, this Concord was fast!!
Ohiomusical Sawman The fuel economy was a bit on the low side, too. I wonder if their test example was either not broken in yet, or needed a carburetor or timing adjustment.
I tend to agree with John Davis. Small econoboxes aren't bad cars some people. But for most people, they need, they want something larger than what the Toyota Corolla, the Datsun/Nissan, or the Dodge/Mitsubishi/Plymouth Colt can offer. They also don't need or want a huge behemoth cars we remember from the early 70s.
At the 3:32 mark, it looks like the acceleration test is being run downhill - just like in all these videos. My best buddy in college loaned me his AMC Concord for a visit to the local DMV office. I knew the police would be taking a good look at the vehicle I was in and my 1979 Datsun 210 was barely holding together. The similarly aged Concord was in good shape and running strong. All went well. Wish I had a 4.0 or 4.2 liter straight six with RWD in one of my current cars. So much easier to work on than some FWD V-6 using coil-on-plug wiring.
When I was a kid my aunt and uncle had his and her Concord four doors. They were basically twins. And if I remember correctly they were both still running when the bodies had literally rotted away and started to fall off.
This car was the epitome of Simple and Reliable. It was oldest new car you could get in 1983, but still solid. GM cars had unproven technology (well proven to be bad) and Fords of that era were tin cans. Sure it drove like a 70s car but could last forever.
Scott Hall Not quite. The Volvo 240 was just a retrimmed 140 that debuted in 1966 as a ‘67 model. Volvo would keep it in production through 1993. The SAAB 900 was heavily based on the 99, which launched in the summer of 1967 as a ‘68 model and ran through 1993. The Jaguar XJ debuted in September of 1968 and was made through 1992. The Rolls-Royce Corniche had been in production since about 1965, as had the Bentley Continental. Both ran through the 1995 model year. The Avanti had been around since 1963 and ran through 1990. The Fiat Spider had been around longer, too. So had the Alfa Spider, which lasted through 1994. Many cars that were still highly regarded were on sale in the US and were older designs than the Concord was in 1983.
Trance88 Yes, bu the thing is they kept selling and kept running. Refined they were not, OTOH they held up far better than most of the FWD cars of the times.
+AZDuffman Compared to newer cars, they seem old, of course, as this car would now be over 30 years old!! By the standards of the era, though, this Concord was a plush, comfortable smaller luxury cruiser with very nice power as compared to the 4 bangers and carbureted v6 motors of that era.
Precisely!! Such cars were also the best stuff on the road in the 80's. ⛽ was cheap. The newer econoboxes had no power, were death traps in an accident, and were horribly uncomfortable.
So what? "Styling" is way overrated. The "old" Hornet and the "new" Concord were solid, well-built, affordable cars. Who cares if it has "outdated" styling?
It was a Concord Limited. DL was the lower trim of the two, a base model was essentially a fleet vehicle with no vinyl top. Anyway, it can't be a DL Limited. DL or Limited, but not both.
Utmost respect for Motorweek! Love the show, still! I get a kick out of these older reviews, even more so in the Car and Track reviews of the 60's and 70's, when the braking distance has more to do about tire tread friction than braking efficiency. The old C&T reviews are laughable in this respect! Nonetheless, great to watch!
After AMC collapsed in the 80's, I had acquired a lot of parts, all kinds of stuff, boxes of stuff, all brand new. Throughout the 90's and even in the 2000's, I had repurposed them to fix many cars in my shop of all makes. Great parts, were very easily adapted to Chryslers, Oldsmobiles, Jeeps, Fords, Buicks, everything.
And remember the Jeep 4.0L Inline 6 yet that was AMC engine as well produced from 1987-2004. Those 4.0L Inline 6 runs forever if maintained it was made by AMC
@@kevinwong6588 yes however the great Peugeot company used them as well, I believe it was before AMC adapted them. As a matter of fact, they were the only part of a Peugeot that did not break down.
@@kevinwong6588 I am amazed by your auto knowledge. I forgot about the Fiat and Triumph. Here is one for you, without looking it up, which American car company came out with headlight washers and wipers and in what year?
Those were super cars. Poor AMC so underated. The 4cyl one was horrid. Loved both my AMC vehicles. It was a really NICE car for that price. Here in New England they rusted away very quickly. The mpg was often more like 15mpg in city. That combined with the front wheel drive trend wasn't kind. Nothing like 'cruzin' in a big heavy very fancy rear wheel drive!
Where in the world do you get the idea that this car was big and heavy? An '83 Town Car, deVille or Fleetwood Brougham, or even a Caprice or Crown Vic would be more entitled to those adjectives!
Kenneth Klossner it was big big n heavy by mid 80's standards!! AMC was still using 1970's Chassis you know fuckin tank frames!! Oh I love them and I mean no insult but yet they reused parts they had too they had little money!!
AMC kept updating it's last new car, the Hornet introduced in 1969 until the very end with this Concord. Some 15 or so years later, the last one's were built in Canada. Studebaker followed almost the same route. Can you imagine if AMC had kept building the 49/50 bathtubs into 1965? While cars in the 80's didn't change as drastically as the 50's, the Concord was a dinosaur.
The last Studebakers in 1965-66 were based on the 1953 Loewy platform chassis, but shortened to compact size and new sheetmetal. On a related note, the Jeep SJ (full size Wagoneer) continued to 1991, dating back to 1963 model year. AMC *did* continue the dated Nash 196 six (overhead valve) to 1965, which dated to 1952.
@@kevinwong6588 The very BIG difference in Studebaker's case was that even if the 53 chassis was used, that model was 10 year's ahead of everyone. The first wide, long, low car that everyone else didn't catch up to until 1957 with Chrysler, and 58 or 59 with GM and Ford.
@@neildickson5394 To admit, the 1950 "bathtub" Nash did last quite long, as the Rambler American as late as 1963 was still the 1950 bathtub Nash Rambler, with new square slab sheetmetal from 1961 onward. The later Rambler Americans were all new, being a shortened 1963 Classic platform and body.
@@kevinwong6588 Well, actually that's quite right. George Romney shocked the auto industry when he brought back the discontinued Rambler of 50-55 in the American. It had full wheel cutouts unlike its predecessor, and was pretty fat and ungainly. However, it did sell well, and matched up decisively against the Studebaker Lark, both plain Janes.
SAAB, Volvo, Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Bentley, and Aston Martin to name just a few were still building cars that were much older than the Concord’s ca. 1970 mechanicals at the time, and at least with the first 3 I named, were going from strength to strength. The Volvo 240-Series initally launched as the 140-Series in late ‘66 and kept selling the same basic design - but with periodic updates - until 1993. Almost twice as long as the Hornet/Concord was on sale. The SAAB 900 was a facelifted SAAB 99, which launched in 1967, and saw sales peak in the ‘80s. It would live until 1993, as well, before a full redesign, with only mild updates every 4 years or so. The Jaguar XJ6/12 launched in 1968 and received only a few updates before being fully replaced at the end of 1992. All 3 of those cars were more expensive than the Concord, and all 3 were popular and desirable far later in life than you might think, and are highly regarded today. I think that by the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, AMC was being run by management that was insecure about the age of their design and were focused on trying to get stuff like the Alliance launched, so they didn’t put as much effort into freshening and marketing the Concord as they should have. They easily could have pulled more life out of that car, especially since Chrysler sold their Gran Fury, Diplomat, and Fifth Avenue until 1989! It was a shame in particular because AMC killed the Concord after ‘83, and had no passenger sedan to offer customers that was larger than the subcompact 4cyl Alliance for 4 years… until the imported Medallion launched way too late to save the company. In an era when gas prices were historically cheap, that decision to kill the Concord instead of keeping it fresh, cost AMC dearly.
These were so underrated. I grew up in a upper middle class town where the downsized V6 Cutlasses and Bonnevilles were sexy resulting in tired or blown motors at 75k miles. This car blows them out of the water for half the price and that straight six can reliably exceed well over 75k miles.
Those valve covers leaked oil by the quart. The only way to stop it was to get an aluminum replacement. Other than that, the car was a really good car.
They didn’t leak if you followed procedures with the right sealant and no gasket. If a gasket was used the covers warped and leaked. My 1981 concord with plastic cover doesn’t leak.
I had a good friend in the mid 1980s whose first car was a late 70s 2 door concord. It was a complete pile of garbage. It was in the shop every other week until his dad finally bailed him out and got him a '77 Ford LTD.
I remember the final years of AMC. They were always one-off cars that were not of many people's radar because back then, nobody thought AWD was something they desperately needed. People still dealt with cars that were very much basic RWD cars and somehow, they still got through winters with them, regular tires and all. The AMC dealer in town was small from the start and remained that way until it closed, but I'm glad I have it embedded in my childhood memory nonetheless.
These were really outdated by this point with sluggish power, almost no backseat legroom and the trunk was comically small. They also were terrible in the handling department. How do I know? We sold many of these and the 4WD Eagles in the late 80's and 90's.
B. Wallace Mueller and pretty much anything from that era. Smog regulations made cars have anemic engines that got bad mileage, the weak engines made people floor it more, which further reduced tax mileage... Increasing the smog in the air...
Oh... a lot of folks make excuses for these things because they wax nostalgic, but the fact of the matter is, American auto-companies never reinvested earnings into improving their products until they had real competition from Japan, and at the time, Europe. Before that, Detroit car-companies basically aped one another, and each following year, introduced some minor tweaks... major innovations like fuel-injection, diesel implementation, novel transmissions/cams, air bags... usually resulted in nonsense for the first 3-5 years. If you saw the balance-sheets of the marketing budget vs. the R & D budget, you'd see why.
theres a white one of these that runs around my town.seems like a real nice car for even today.ive always liked amc.i always said they were GM dodge and ford left over part cars put into one and there you had a amc
My Mom traded her '76 Pacer woody in for a brand new '78 Concord sport Liftback on Remembrance Day 1978. I cruised out for a hamburger in it two weeks ago.
... You taking about the Hornet Sportabout? Maybe around 15-20k. I wouldn't worry about it, you would've spent about as much to keep it going up until now... taxes, maintenance, insurance...
They kept calling it a D/L Limited - so annoying! They were 2 different trim classes, with D/L mid range and the Limited the top of the line model. Notice the closing shot when they zoom in on the name on the front fender - just says Concord Limited.
It's actually funny that when people look at AMC's now, they realize they were built much better than any of the big three's offerings, makes you wonder which of those three payed off the media to sink AMC's fortunes and public image...
This thing is hilarious. If i ever met anyone driving one nowadays i'd buy them a coffee just for keeping it going. I can't stand coffee, but i hear its a normal human thing to buy for people in occasions such as this.
Yeah, the good old days. We don't see cars these days that harken back nearly 20 years to their original design, the Panther based Ford Crown Victoria is the only modern example I can think of quickly. The AMC Concord and Eagle came out in 1970 as the Hornet, so really late 1960s designs and technology that managed to be updated enough to last almost into the 1990s. And now they're highly sought after cult classics.
@ 5:36. "and your children's screams stay in." ...I'm sure in the 80's such questions were posed to many a car salesman. "I know it keeps the outside noise out, but will it also keep my children's screams in?"
Coming from Michigan, I suppose I have to give a nod to this undersized Wisconsin beast. A not but little respect. It's a barely updated late 70s AMC Hornet. Updating means rectangular headlights. Nice enough car, my Uncle sold them, back when they were Nash and Ramblers. But really? Heavy, underpowered, more cramped on the inside than the outside promises. Terrible MPG for It's time and size. I would say that it's slow, but so were most other cars in this segment back then. For room, comfort and economy in 1982 my money would be on a Chevy Caprice or even an LTD II. Better yet, wait a year and get an underpowered, yet comfortable, efficient, and bulletproof Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera.
As with most AMCs, it's a much better car than many people are willing to give it credit for.
I'd buy a Hornet, a Concord, or an Eagle 4wd if I could find a decent driver. Being over 30 yrs. old, I cannot imagine that there are many out there.
My parents had a 1974 AMC Matador 2 door when I was little. My mother hated it. It was hideous to look at, and even worse at climbing hills when needed.
@@jasoncarpp7742 the styling was beautiful...because it had a purpose: 200MPH at Talledaga.
@John Ferguson I actually find the 74-77 Matador sedan more attractive.
@@jasoncarpp7742 at some point you need to change the spark plugs and do a tune up. My 78 Matador coupe was fantastic. Of course it had the 360 AMC engine that was well tuned
That "venerable old engine" was still being used to pull Jeep SUVs around 20+ years later. That old I6 just wouldn't die.
Ran until 1991 essentially unchanged (carb'd 258), and 2006 in the EFI 4.0 version.
I had one in a 73 Sportabout that I wish I still had.
Well really that engine was the 258.. the 4.0 fuel injection aka 242 came out in the mid to late 80's...
I had an 87 with the 4.0..
@@American-Motors-Corporation facts. People always lump the 4.2 and the 4.0 together, while they are similar, yet different engines.
@@weegeemike the 4.0 was a reworked 258 inline which was the 4.2 the major difference is simply,
On the 4.0 the water jacket around cylinder number 6 is smaller!
There's some minor differences but the 4.0 is a upgraded reworked version of the bigger 4.2 258 cu in...
I actually own this car. A 1983 AMC Concord DL That. except for the paint (Jamaican Beige ) is identical to the car featured here. The vinyl top and interior are the same color. I've owned a lot of AMCs and they were always good high mileage cars. I'll probably own this one for the rest of my life. It just keeps on going.
Of course it does! It keeps going and going and going just to get to the end of that quarter mile stretch! Lol
I owned an '83 the same color as the one in the intro. Was a base model, but w/ the 6 cyl. Paid $600 in '94. Had 60k orig miles at the time, and cold AC. Didn't keep it long. Was just temporary.
How is the Concord running these days?
Dodge dart slant six reliability. I seeone of these from time to time. Well used obviously but no rust and solid looking
justjeff my condolences on the color of your car. kidding.
So awesome that you still have the car. I appreciate AMCs a lot more now than I did back then. They were good cars,
I miss AMC. Thats a great 258 6cyl!!
Rick Reid hey Reid how are you hamging
Now, when I think about the ultimate Brougham, THIS is what comes to mind IMMEDIIATELY, the venerable American Motors Corporation Concord. This one has all of the plush trimmings that you would expect to find in a Cadillac or Lincoln, but even when fully loaded with every option imaginable, it STILL retailed for thousands less that any car from either of the aforementioned established luxury brands. We actually rented a brown Connie wagon on our first trip to Disney World, & I do remember crying when we had to give it back. I had fallen that much in love with it. Anyone who calls this car ugly is COMPLETELY missing the point, in my view. Is it the most beautiful car in the world? Absolutely not. However, this car was not DESIGNED to be beautiful. It was designed to be durable, it was designed to be strong. It was designed to be sturdy. It was designed to be tough.
The AMC also had resale value several thousands LESS than the aforementioned brands. You get what you pay for.
@@bruschmidt9943 Well, in all fairness, they almost all did at that time, unless it was a Volvo, BMW, or Mercedes... at a time when European cars really shined, and weren't the over-engineered-on-the-cheap vehicles they are today.
I think the '72 Ambassador is the best AMC Brougham.
anything AMC is much appreciated
I used to hate AMCs, now I'm starting to appreciate them. AMC was America's last surviving independent auto maker, and their product line was actually pretty good considering their financial woes. The 1980 Eagle wagon, for example, pretty much predicted the future about what Americans would be driving in another 30 years-it was basically the first crossover! This car could have and perhaps should have saved the company, but maybe it was too soon?
I bought new in 1981. AMC Concord. I had zero issues with that car. Period
Heavy gauge steel body, AMC Inline 6 and a Chrysler Torqueflite transmission. That's exactly why they called it a Sherman Tank at the beginning -- all of that is bulletproof.
Chrysler did produce many Sherman tanks and their components. The companies that would merge to become AMC also provided a plethora of services to the war effort.
I'm amazed how rust free most AMC's. Especially 70's era ones. The Big Three stuff would rust immediately after getting wet
AMC really did soldier on with minimal tooling and spare components to call brand new but still produce reliable and somewhat competitive vehicles. I’d take a late 70’s CJ-7 with a straight 6 in a heartbeat. Simplicity and utility at its finest.
One of the most comfortable cars ever made. Solid, quite, plenty of cabin room....for its day, it drove so easily, and you felt safe in it, drove mine till I had to get a truck. AMC had its problems, but it had its glory to,and the Concord was one of them!
*quiet
Aaah the days when you could get 3rd degree burns from the door handles and seat belt latches in the summer.
And impromptu skin grafts from the vinyl seat covers!
I had a 1982 Concord that was a super base model with the 4.2L engine. Still, it was like a Sherman tank.
AMC could've been America's honda in today's time.... Shame they just didn't have the budget.
Saturn could have obliterated Toyota and Honda but GM never recognized the brand as their ace in the hole.
Neighborhood Bum, It’s mind boggling that they could build such
fine cars with no money. They were
pioneers, not just car builders.
I’ve had 14 Rambler / AMCs......so far....
@@davidp8627 Saturn cannibalized sales from GM, which is they got rid of it. People bought lower price, lower profit margin Saturns instead of Chevrolets and Pontiacs.
No...they couldn't have. Honda built their own, entirely. AMC was an assembler of parts, some their own and some not.
There's a reason they never had the budget to pull off some of the arguably best designed and innovative cars of the 1970s and early 80s.
The designers were great, the engineering was a half-assed group of parts pickers who relied on other manufacturers for drive trains and components, and the managementbhad zero clue what to do with these cars or how to sell them.
This car is a Hornet. In 1983 it was an eight to ten year old Hornet with zero updates.
@@PJCathey Hate if you want, but I'd take an AMC over a Honda
My Dad had a '79. Comfortable and quiet, but he was disappointed with the fuel mileage. To get on the freeway you needed every inch of the entrance ramp, full throttle, to merge into traffic at 60 mph. Always dependable and no major repairs. Had it 8 years and put 130,000 miles on it before selling it.
I have a 78 Concord and 72 Gremlin X. Also had Rebel Machine and AMX. None of them ever failed. The 258 is probably the best inline 6 ever made.
Gremlin X V8's were fun, especially with the Levis™ interior package!
In high school my buddy inherited his parents Concorde 82 Concorde in 92. It's true it was a tank . I remember when we just drove around because we lived in a smallish city we could jump on the hood or roof no dents , thick metal. Good times " just driving around at 16 "
Had AMC properly marketed the AMC Eagle like Audi did in the 1980s and Subaru did in the 1990s ("the beauty of AWD"), it would still be independent and make a ton of money today.
I am impressed this 1970 Hornet remodel did so well in their review. I always loved the Concord and my favorite year was the 1979 Limited model...and the Spirit was nice too.
Look at the Jeep Wagoneer as well--in production from 1963 until 1991 with only periodic trim, safety and performance updates. AMC could wring out a dime and get 6 cents change.
My '78 Concord served me quite well. Bought it at a state of Michigan auction. It had been used for beach patrol, given the amount of SAND I had to vacuum out of it. Got good use out of it, boring as it was. Good, basic, cheap, easy to work on transportation. Got me thru grad school and first few yrs of first career level job.
AMC's indestructible Inline 6 bolted up to Chrysler's indestructible torqueflite transmission. It may be slow, but it was the 1980's version of the durable Dart/Valiant all over again. It is a tragedy they didn't sell more of them.
My neighbor had one.Hit a train and drove it home.Left the bumper and a front fender in the ditch.
I had an 80' Concord- very luxe, woodgrain everywhere, drove like a dream- NEVER had any problem of any type, NEVER! Totally, absolutely reliable!
In 2000 I purchased a 1983 Concord Wagon Limited at a used car lot with 37,000 miles on the odometer...Price $2999! Every option was on it(Leather-Power seats,door locks and windows) I drove it until 2014...It's sitting in storage now with 61,000 miles.
I've only replaced muffler, tires,brakes and oil...I can let it it sit for several years then put a new battery in it and it still starts right up.
Gonna try to keep it as long as I can.
AMC had great cars at a decent price and value. I miss AMC and Jeep is the one good thing left over that keeps me going. My 1973 401 Ambassador and 1985 Eagle Limited wagon are still going strong and look as good as new all these decades later. Good job AMC.🇺🇸🥇😍
had one. an 81 limited. extraordinarily plush, quiet, well built, not bad on gas....
That is when a car was still made or METAL! Not tin. John even mentioned it, that it is a 'tank', and made of 'heavy gauge steel'! It was a great comfortable car. Had 2 of them in my family, and they just ran and ran!...until we found another color we wanted:) A car made of actual METAL....those were the days! You could live through a crash,without 50 airbags stuffed in it, and raising the price through the roof!!
They really seemed to want to give AMC every positive they could with this car, and I'll say it: AMC deserves the praise. At this point they have kept the Hornet chassis alive and diverse for over a decade. The Hornet became the Gremlin, the Spirit, the Concord, the AMX, and the Eagle.
Beautiful car
I also had an '83. Exact same color as the one shown in the opening of this video. I bought it in the mid 90s for $600 as a temporary car. Was like driving a car that was 10 years older than it really was. Old school all the way. After all, this car used to be the Hornet. I do believe that 83 was the end of the Concord. Just 4x4 Eagles and the new Renault cars from '84 onward.
I can remember when the AMC Concord was considered to be a compact car... Yes, I'm OLD! Us old timers are lost in today's world of plastic, computer controlled cars that all look alike. I miss the days of massive American boats, the Lincolns, Cadillac's, big American made ONLY Muscle Cars... The newest car I own is a 2000 BMW. I still have my 1975 Olds Toronado with it's 455-ci beast under the hood and my 1966 Ford XL with the awesome 429-ci with 475-hp, now that is a REAL CAR! Poor AMC, gone but not forgotten.
I feel the same way, i miss those tanks
I remember when the Hornet replaced the American, and the Concord is a fancy Hornet. (That's NOT a dig, AMC did what they could with what they had).
I'm mesmerized by it's suspension.
I had a 1980 Concord, used. I was just a kid but it was kinda cool driving around in a “grown-up” car.
Nothing could hide the fact that this car was on it's 13th model year, for 1983, as it was the same basic car as the 1970 Hornet. The best part of this car was under the hood even if it was slow!
AMC built like a tank with proven tech. Not sexy in the 80's but now people realize AMC was building a car to last the long haul. If they could have only hung on another 10 years they would have left Chrysler in the dust for number 3 with their 4X4 offerings.
Sounds to me like they liked it.I love AMC's>I owner three of them and they were the most trouble free cars I ever owned.I had a 77 matador wagon that had 200,000 miles on it when I sold it.I seen that car on the road for years after that.I wish i had kept it because the Chevy,Pontiac and ford I had after that were not nearly as reliable
AMC’s late 70’s/early 80’s cars always reminded me of the types of cars you’d see around Silent Hill. Idk why 😂
One of my coworkers still has one of these today, in the year 2016. Original owner. I think it looks kind of weird with it's elevated stance, aardvark like look. Looks tough. It does have the straight six banger. Tough as nails.
+smithraymond09029 Sounds like his isn't a regular Concord but an Eagle with four wheel drive, AMC was a real pioneer with AWD sedans and wagons.
Imagine if they could have held on for another five years...
I miss the column automatic shifter in new cars
paul nadratowski Me too!
@@andrewcolsen I remember when there were cars with column mounted control for the automatic transmission.
That along with sealed beam headlights
@@1983jblack I also like twin headlights on each side of the grille. :)
paul nadratowski, Me too. They just
felt right...
This is another car I would buy new
right now , if I could. The other is an 88 Plymouth Reliant wagon like I had back then
Owned an '82 in around 1995. Bought it for a grand and drove it til the inspection ran out. Sold it to some guy for 300 bucks (wasn't able to start). Saw it still running around my home town about 5 years ago, I wonder if it;s still alive. Man that thing was built like a jeep, in fact I think that is where a lot of the parts were from lol.
Edward Weagle Well AMC did own jeep, so it was built similar to a jeep.
+Luke Shaver, also that same 4.2L I6, an almost bullet-proof engine in any app (my father had it in a '75 Hornet Sportabout wagon) was under that year's Jeep CJ-5 and CJ-7s hood (was on Wranglers 'til '90).
syxepop Yeah.
I remember the i6 in mine was held together with duct tape (for the intake). it was rough but it worked lol. being related to jeep explains the enormous springs
The 4WD Eagle wagons were built using the Jeep chassis until the parts ran out in late 1988. So 1988 was the last year for the AMC/Eagle Wagon made by Chrysler after 1987.
It was a solid and very reliable car. Safe and reliable too. And that's the aspect that matters. Just a very good car for the money!🎉
I can confirm, 40 years after it's production, my fully loaded 1982 Concord DL w/258 auto gets the same EPA estimated 23 mpg with all factory equipment.
My grandmother had one of these, I remember it well.
Those acceleration times don't sound right to me. My '75 Hornet D/L, with 258 1 barrel and 3 speed torqueflite automatic, ran 0-50 In 7 seconds. Over 50, acceleration was slowish compared to a v8, but that was no problem in the late 80's, with a 55 mph speed limit, and new cars with pitiful 0-60times of 15+ seconds. In this modern era of powerful, fast, and fuel efficient four cylinder cars, I think that many Americans have forgotten what it was like to drive a molasses slow 2.5 liter Chevy Citation, or carbureted 2.0 liter Cavalier. Compared to such cars, this Concord was fast!!
Ohiomusical Sawman The fuel economy was a bit on the low side, too. I wonder if their test example was either not broken in yet, or needed a carburetor or timing adjustment.
Yes!
I have an 80 AMX, stock 258 4speed, and it runs mid 18s.
I tend to agree with John Davis. Small econoboxes aren't bad cars some people. But for most people, they need, they want something larger than what the Toyota Corolla, the Datsun/Nissan, or the Dodge/Mitsubishi/Plymouth Colt can offer. They also don't need or want a huge behemoth cars we remember from the early 70s.
At the 3:32 mark, it looks like the acceleration test is being run downhill - just like in all these videos. My best buddy in college loaned me his AMC Concord for a visit to the local DMV office. I knew the police would be taking a good look at the vehicle I was in and my 1979 Datsun 210 was barely holding together. The similarly aged Concord was in good shape and running strong. All went well. Wish I had a 4.0 or 4.2 liter straight six with RWD in one of my current cars. So much easier to work on than some FWD V-6 using coil-on-plug wiring.
yeah it's a year later, but you'd think the trees in the video might give you an idea that it's not downhill....
My only complaint was the plastic valve cover. Those things leaked faster than you could replace them.
I liked the Pacer and The Gremlin . I would buy one in a heart beat . The AMX was okay but I liked the true 70s character of the Pacer and Gremlin .
My cousin used to joke that that's what I'd be driving.
Ah the malaise era of automobiles! At least cars had individuality back then!
When I was a kid my aunt and uncle had his and her Concord four doors. They were basically twins. And if I remember correctly they were both still running when the bodies had literally rotted away and started to fall off.
My sister dated a guy that had a four door Matador with three on the tree! Drove the snot out of that thing!
This car was the epitome of Simple and Reliable. It was oldest new car you could get in 1983, but still solid. GM cars had unproven technology (well proven to be bad) and Fords of that era were tin cans. Sure it drove like a 70s car but could last forever.
Scott Hall Not quite. The Volvo 240 was just a retrimmed 140 that debuted in 1966 as a ‘67 model. Volvo would keep it in production through 1993. The SAAB 900 was heavily based on the 99, which launched in the summer of 1967 as a ‘68 model and ran through 1993. The Jaguar XJ debuted in September of 1968 and was made through 1992. The Rolls-Royce Corniche had been in production since about 1965, as had the Bentley Continental. Both ran through the 1995 model year. The Avanti had been around since 1963 and ran through 1990. The Fiat Spider had been around longer, too. So had the Alfa Spider, which lasted through 1994.
Many cars that were still highly regarded were on sale in the US and were older designs than the Concord was in 1983.
"Road noise stays out *and your childrens screams stay in* "
This is definitley one of those 80's cars that was stuck in the 70's. Much like the Dodge Diplomat and some of the 80's caddies.
Trance88 Yes, bu the thing is they kept selling and kept running. Refined they were not, OTOH they held up far better than most of the FWD cars of the times.
+AZDuffman Compared to newer cars, they seem old, of course, as this car would now be over 30 years old!! By the standards of the era, though, this Concord was a plush, comfortable smaller luxury cruiser with very nice power as compared to the 4 bangers and carbureted v6 motors of that era.
Precisely!! Such cars were also the best stuff on the road in the 80's. ⛽ was cheap. The newer econoboxes had no power, were death traps in an accident, and were horribly uncomfortable.
Yep. I had an '83 Concord and an '88 Diplomat. Both were cheap, old cars when I purchased them.
So what? "Styling" is way overrated. The "old" Hornet and the "new" Concord were solid, well-built, affordable cars. Who cares if it has "outdated" styling?
we had a 82 wagon. It lasted about 300k miles before the headgasket failed.
It was a Concord Limited. DL was the lower trim of the two, a base model was essentially a fleet vehicle with no vinyl top. Anyway, it can't be a DL Limited. DL or Limited, but not both.
Utmost respect for Motorweek! Love the show, still! I get a kick out of these older reviews, even more so in the Car and Track reviews of the 60's and 70's, when the braking distance has more to do about tire tread friction than braking efficiency. The old C&T reviews are laughable in this respect! Nonetheless, great to watch!
After AMC collapsed in the 80's, I had acquired a lot of parts, all kinds of stuff, boxes of stuff, all brand new. Throughout the 90's and even in the 2000's, I had repurposed them to fix many cars in my shop of all makes. Great parts, were very easily adapted to Chryslers, Oldsmobiles, Jeeps, Fords, Buicks, everything.
So you never know, that Chrysler parked next to you at the store might have AMC n.o.s. Brake lines, or AMC n.o.s. power steering, lol...
And remember the Jeep 4.0L Inline 6 yet that was AMC engine as well produced from 1987-2004. Those 4.0L Inline 6 runs forever if maintained it was made by AMC
AMC= All Motor Co.
I love the generic AMC door handles!
BigOldCar
i have always loved AMCs flipper paddle door handles...which they adopted using since circa 1970
1968 model year (except Rambler American/Rogue).
@@kevinwong6588 yes however the great Peugeot company used them as well, I believe it was before AMC adapted them. As a matter of fact, they were the only part of a Peugeot that did not break down.
@@anthonyfalzon57 Triumph TR7 and the Fiat X1/9 had the recessed paddle handles too.
@@kevinwong6588 I am amazed by your auto knowledge. I forgot about the Fiat and Triumph. Here is one for you, without looking it up, which American car company came out with headlight washers and wipers and in what year?
Those were super cars. Poor AMC so underated. The 4cyl one was horrid. Loved both my AMC vehicles. It was a really NICE car for that price. Here in New England they rusted away very quickly. The mpg was often more like 15mpg in city. That combined with the front wheel drive trend wasn't kind. Nothing like 'cruzin' in a big heavy very fancy rear wheel drive!
Where in the world do you get the idea that this car was big and heavy? An '83 Town Car, deVille or Fleetwood Brougham, or even a Caprice or Crown Vic would be more entitled to those adjectives!
Kenneth Klossner it was big big n heavy by mid 80's standards!! AMC was still using 1970's Chassis you know fuckin tank frames!! Oh I love them and I mean no insult but yet they reused parts they had too they had little money!!
John Hiram
there inline 6s & V8s were/are highly underrated...imo...
@@American-Motors-Corporation Concord had no frame, it was a unibody.
AMC kept updating it's last new car, the Hornet introduced in 1969 until the very end with this Concord. Some 15 or so years later, the last one's were built in Canada. Studebaker followed almost the same route. Can you imagine if AMC had kept building the 49/50 bathtubs into 1965? While cars in the 80's didn't change as drastically as the 50's, the Concord was a dinosaur.
The last Studebakers in 1965-66 were based on the 1953 Loewy platform chassis, but shortened to compact size and new sheetmetal. On a related note, the Jeep SJ (full size Wagoneer) continued to 1991, dating back to 1963 model year. AMC *did* continue the dated Nash 196 six (overhead valve) to 1965, which dated to 1952.
@@kevinwong6588 The very BIG difference in Studebaker's case was that even if the 53 chassis was used, that model was 10 year's ahead of everyone. The first wide, long, low car that everyone else didn't catch up to until 1957 with Chrysler, and 58 or 59 with GM and Ford.
@@neildickson5394 To admit, the 1950 "bathtub" Nash did last quite long, as the Rambler American as late as 1963 was still the 1950 bathtub Nash Rambler, with new square slab sheetmetal from 1961 onward. The later Rambler Americans were all new, being a shortened 1963 Classic platform and body.
@@kevinwong6588 Well, actually that's quite right. George Romney shocked the auto industry when he brought back the discontinued Rambler of 50-55 in the American. It had full wheel cutouts unlike its predecessor, and was pretty fat and ungainly. However, it did sell well, and matched up decisively against the Studebaker Lark, both plain Janes.
SAAB, Volvo, Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Bentley, and Aston Martin to name just a few were still building cars that were much older than the Concord’s ca. 1970 mechanicals at the time, and at least with the first 3 I named, were going from strength to strength.
The Volvo 240-Series initally launched as the 140-Series in late ‘66 and kept selling the same basic design - but with periodic updates - until 1993. Almost twice as long as the Hornet/Concord was on sale.
The SAAB 900 was a facelifted SAAB 99, which launched in 1967, and saw sales peak in the ‘80s. It would live until 1993, as well, before a full redesign, with only mild updates every 4 years or so. The Jaguar XJ6/12 launched in 1968 and received only a few updates before being fully replaced at the end of 1992.
All 3 of those cars were more expensive than the Concord, and all 3 were popular and desirable far later in life than you might think, and are highly regarded today.
I think that by the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, AMC was being run by management that was insecure about the age of their design and were focused on trying to get stuff like the Alliance launched, so they didn’t put as much effort into freshening and marketing the Concord as they should have. They easily could have pulled more life out of that car, especially since Chrysler sold their Gran Fury, Diplomat, and Fifth Avenue until 1989!
It was a shame in particular because AMC killed the Concord after ‘83, and had no passenger sedan to offer customers that was larger than the subcompact 4cyl Alliance for 4 years… until the imported Medallion launched way too late to save the company. In an era when gas prices were historically cheap, that decision to kill
the Concord instead of keeping it fresh, cost AMC dearly.
I would so drive this car!
These were so underrated. I grew up in a upper middle class town where the downsized V6 Cutlasses and Bonnevilles were sexy resulting in tired or blown motors at 75k miles. This car blows them out of the water for half the price and that straight six can reliably exceed well over 75k miles.
Those valve covers leaked oil by the quart. The only way to stop it was to get an aluminum replacement. Other than that, the car was a really good car.
They didn’t leak if you followed procedures with the right sealant and no gasket. If a gasket was used the covers warped and leaked. My 1981 concord with plastic cover doesn’t leak.
I had a good friend in the mid 1980s whose first car was a late 70s 2 door concord. It was a complete pile of garbage. It was in the shop every other week until his dad finally bailed him out and got him a '77 Ford LTD.
In looks and dynamics, this car was 10 years out of date by 1983. Would love a mint condition one now though...!
I remember the final years of AMC. They were always one-off cars that were not of many people's radar because back then, nobody thought AWD was something they desperately needed. People still dealt with cars that were very much basic RWD cars and somehow, they still got through winters with them, regular tires and all. The AMC dealer in town was small from the start and remained that way until it closed, but I'm glad I have it embedded in my childhood memory nonetheless.
I don't even remember the last time I saw an AMC car, I think it was in 1997 I last time I saw one, that's how rare they are now.
The Concord was just a '70 Hornet with opera windows.
I would have chosen the Eagle for the all-wheel-drive.
Its not getting older, its just getting better......right until the company goes out of business.
These were really outdated by this point with sluggish power, almost no backseat legroom and the trunk was comically small. They also were terrible in the handling department. How do I know? We sold many of these and the 4WD Eagles in the late 80's and 90's.
I had a Mexican version by VAM. Very affordable and funy to drive.
Captain Slow would love this car.
B. Wallace Mueller and pretty much anything from that era. Smog regulations made cars have anemic engines that got bad mileage, the weak engines made people floor it more, which further reduced tax mileage... Increasing the smog in the air...
The Dacia Sandero!
Oh... a lot of folks make excuses for these things because they wax nostalgic, but the fact of the matter is, American auto-companies never reinvested earnings into improving their products until they had real competition from Japan, and at the time, Europe. Before that, Detroit car-companies basically aped one another, and each following year, introduced some minor tweaks... major innovations like fuel-injection, diesel implementation, novel transmissions/cams, air bags... usually resulted in nonsense for the first 3-5 years. If you saw the balance-sheets of the marketing budget vs. the R & D budget, you'd see why.
AMC was the economy brand
Like a 2-wheel drive Eagle.
+vector6977 Nothing gets past you Vector.
I wish that I would have bought one in 1980. Instead I bought a Renault Le Car. Big mistake!
80's styling, gotta love that era
That's was 70's styling.
Technically 60s styling origins. It's based on the original Hornet that came out in 1970.
I was around I know
@@kevinpatrickmacnutt Basic work on the Hornet dates back to 1965.
theres a white one of these that runs around my town.seems like a real nice car for even today.ive always liked amc.i always said they were GM dodge and ford left over part cars put into one and there you had a amc
AMC= All Motor Co.
Originally introduced as the Hornet back in the early 70's it was re-engineered and name was changed to Concord for the 1978 model year.
My Mom traded her '76 Pacer woody in for a brand new '78 Concord sport Liftback on Remembrance Day 1978. I cruised out for a hamburger in it two weeks ago.
That was a very high quality automobile
I had a yellow Gucci edition. I wonder how much that car would be worth today?
... You taking about the Hornet Sportabout? Maybe around 15-20k. I wouldn't worry about it, you would've spent about as much to keep it going up until now... taxes, maintenance, insurance...
They kept calling it a D/L Limited - so annoying! They were 2 different trim classes, with D/L mid range and the Limited the top of the line model. Notice the closing shot when they zoom in on the name on the front fender - just says Concord Limited.
It's actually funny that when people look at AMC's now, they realize they were built much better than any of the big three's offerings, makes you wonder which of those three payed off the media to sink AMC's fortunes and public image...
The Concord was a re-styled Hornet, which was a re-styled Rambler American! Shows how good that American was back in the 1960s!
1/4 mile in 20.5 seconds. To be fair, that's still faster than I can swim.
I wonder how well it might have performed with a manual transmission...
the 4wd one was cool
i love motorweek
Had one, but it was the wagon, ahh to be 16 again
it looks like something out of police academy movie
This thing is hilarious. If i ever met anyone driving one nowadays i'd buy them a coffee just for keeping it going. I can't stand coffee, but i hear its a normal human thing to buy for people in occasions such as this.
Yeah, the good old days. We don't see cars these days that harken back nearly 20 years to their original design, the Panther based Ford Crown Victoria is the only modern example I can think of quickly. The AMC Concord and Eagle came out in 1970 as the Hornet, so really late 1960s designs and technology that managed to be updated enough to last almost into the 1990s. And now they're highly sought after cult classics.
AMC was like the Moskvich of America
The helmet of the test driver is very optimistic.
Its really a 1973 Hornet. AMC chopped, tweaked and facelifted that platform for years.
@ 5:36. "and your children's screams stay in." ...I'm sure in the 80's such questions were posed to many a car salesman. "I know it keeps the outside noise out, but will it also keep my children's screams in?"
Coming from Michigan, I suppose I have to give a nod to this undersized Wisconsin beast. A not but little respect.
It's a barely updated late 70s AMC Hornet. Updating means rectangular headlights.
Nice enough car, my Uncle sold them, back when they were Nash and Ramblers.
But really?
Heavy, underpowered, more cramped on the inside than the outside promises.
Terrible MPG for It's time and size.
I would say that it's slow, but so were most other cars in this segment back then.
For room, comfort and economy in 1982 my money would be on a Chevy Caprice or even an LTD II.
Better yet, wait a year and get an underpowered, yet comfortable, efficient, and bulletproof Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera.
A solid tank of a car, just sadly lacking updates leading into the 80’s to maintain its relevance in the marketplace
I thought AMCs were made exclusively in Wisconsin.
Kenosha Wisconsin, but some were made in Brampton Ontario.
Very rare car with only 4400 sedan Concord made that last year
for the new season of Motor week in 2022 is John Davis the host coming back I saw the new 2022 season promo and there was 3 show hosts