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The bigger problem is putting all that power to the road, with that lightly loaded rear end. Good thing, what with the Gremlin’s three-speed stick being unsynchronized in low gear, and balky in the other two. C/D’s observed consumption of 19.3 mpg results in the pregnant question “what kind of economy car is this?”Īt least with all that torque, shifting is as optional as the back seat. But then we’re comparing it to some cars with less than one-third the engine size. Well, everything is highly relative, if a 0-60 time of 10.5 seconds and the quarter mile in 17.8 sec.
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As per C/D: “compared to the others, the Gremlin feels like a fuel-burning Hemi on the dragstrip, almost a full second and 4 mph faster then…the second quickest car”. It’s a solid and reliable performer, and brings torque and power levels unheard of to the small car arena. Under that long nose sits AMC’s 232 cubic inch (3.8 liter) inline six. Well, the Gremlin certainly offset its cramped back end with the front end.
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Or an update on the “business coupe”,without the business. The desire to have a base list price ($1879) competitive with the VW involved some serious compromises: the Gremlin effectively was a two-seater station wagon (with the optional hatch). It does fold down to increase the otherwise tiny cargo space, which is accessible from the outside only if you order the optional fold-up hatch window. And that optional back seat is strictly for children. The base Gremlin comes with a front bench seat only, and not a comfortable one at that. In a bow to reality (and cost cutting), the back seat is optional seriously. AMC explained the name with a vain attempt to re-write Webster’s: “a pal to its friends and an ogre to its enemies”.Īn ogre to anyone other than the front seat passengers too. The result looks so nose heavy, that you are advised not to casually plop yourself on the front half of the hood, lest the whole car tip up.Īt least AMC’s sense of humor was intact: the Gremlin was introduced on April Fool’s Day 1970, six months ahead of the upcoming Pinto and Vega. Shorten the Hornet’s wheelbase from 108” to 96”, and cut everything off behind the rear wheels in a dramatic Kammback. Necessity being the mother of malfunction, AMC chief designer Dick Teague penned a solution in the oxygen-thin air of an airliner. There was no way they could afford one themselves.īut their new Hornet (top, in photo above) compact sedan was due to arrive in 1970. AMC knew that GM and Ford had all-new small cars (Vega and Pinto) due in 1971. The little gnome was born out of desperate expediency.
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The Gremlin would have had to create a pretty major malfunction in my PC (and C/D’s typewriters) for it not to end dead last. And it looks exactly like what it is: a perfectly normal-looking sedan that had its rear end amputated by a cleaver. It carries almost 60% of its weight over the front wheels despite being RWD. Its design was penned on an air-sickness bag during a (bumpy?) flight. Was a car ever born with the odds so stacked against it? Its name is defined as “a small gnome held to be responsible for malfunction of equipment”. Update: this was supposed to run Monday morning, but for some reason it didn’t so I’m posting it late in the day) Should I ever run into a genuine 1971, I’ll update the pictures.
It’s based on a 1971 small car comparison by Car and Driver. I’m going to re-run it in reverse order this week while I’m on vacation. (first posted at TTAC in 2009 and on here.
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