Re: [Amc-list] Pacer Front End

[Archimedes <Freedom@xxxxxxxx>]

"Dan Strohl" <DStrohl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:


>Not to go OT away from AMC, but I'd always read that GM designed the
>Monza to take the rotary, then when they couldn't get the rotary
>approved, continued on with the Monza just as AMC continued on with the
>Pacer, thus the overlap of the Monza and the Vega in the market for a
>couple of years. 


That's actually correct.

However, the Monza was intended mostly to be a futuristic-looking skin wrapping the standard Vega platform, to make it look slick for the new Wankel engine.

So much for great ideas.


>I'd always read that the Citation was always intended
>to appear just as it appeared - a FWD, conventional-engined replacement
>for the RWD X-body (Nova, Phoenix/Ventura, Apollo, Omega).


Yep.

Unfortunately they were also rather poorly-planned replacements that never really lived up to the hype.

The X-body was to compete with other FWD midsize cars like the Accord, Corona, and Cressida.



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