The AMC Gremlin has been the butt of many automotive jokes throughout the years, often appearing on lists of the worst cars in automotive history. It joined the Pacer as a strangely styled anomaly in ...

The AMC Gremlin goes on sale in the U.S. April 1, 1970, competing against imports such as the Volkswagen Beetle and Toyota Corona, and beating the Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto to market by five ...

To fight the growing wave of imported cars, AMC launches a quirky new subcompact car: the Gremlin. And despite his ...

Nelson Ireson October 4, 2007 Comment Now! The 1970s was a wild and revolutionary period for America. The cultural tsunami of the Summer of Love was sweeping across the nation. Concepts such as ...

Introduced in 1970 as a competitor in the still-new subcompact market, the AMC Gremlin became one of America's weirdest-looking cars. That's because AMC didn't want to spend a lot of money on the ...

Robert has been an auto enthusiast his entire life. He started working on cars at a young age, learning the basics from his father in the home garage on the weekends. Over the years, he learned as ...

The AMC Gremlin, a fast and colorful Jolly Rancher of a car, was the result of reduced gasoline supplies in the late 1960s (which played a role in the 1973 oil crisis), and the nation’s sudden ...

This 1974 AMC Gremlin got a V8 engine swap to ape the special-edition Randall-built XRs of the day. This 1974 AMC Gremlin got a V8 engine swap to ape the special-edition Randall-built XRs of the day.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day, compact hatchbacks? You were the hottest thing around until everyone got extremely parched and sunburnt and decided they were done with this shit and couldn't ...

It’s hard to think of a car that more perfectly encapsulates the seismic changes that would shake the American auto industry in the 1970s than the AMC Gremlin. Like some sort of walking fish, it ...

Gremlins have been causing trouble on airplanes at least since the 1940s, which is when Royal Air Force pilots began blaming them for in-flight malfunctions during World War II. Another, less ...

You could be forgiven for thinking that the BMW Z3 M under an AMC Hornet body we discovered last week was the only vehicle of its kind. After all, it’s not like AMCs on BMW frames are actually a thing ...