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The AMC Hornet is a compact automobile manufactured and marketed by American Motors Corporation (AMC) and made from 1970 through 1977—in two- and four-door sedan, station wagon, and hatchback coupe configurations.
- Origins of The "Hornet" Name
- History
- Year-by-Year Changes
- International Markets
- James Bond Movie The Man with The Golden Gun.
The Hornet name plate goes back to the mid-1950s. The name originated from the merger of Hudson Motor Company and Nash-Kelvinator Corporation in 1954. Hudson introduced the first Hudson Hornet in 1951. The automaker formed a stock car racing team centered on the car, and the "Fabulous Hudson Hornet" soon became famous for its wins and stock-car tit...
The Hornet's styling was based on the AMC Cavalier and Vixen show cars. The Hornet, as well as the Ford Maverick, were considered a response by the domestic automakers to battle with the imports. Development of the new model took AMC three years, a million man-hours, and US$40 million. The Hornet was an all-new design sharing no major body componen...
The AMC Hornet was exported to international markets, as well as assembled under license from Complete knock down (CKD) kits that were shipped from AMC's factories the U.S. or Canada. The foreign built cars incorporated numerous components and parts that were produced by local manufacturers to gain tax or tariff preferences.
As part of a significant product placement movie appearance by AMC, a 1974 Hornet X Hatchback is featured in the James Bond film: The Man with the Golden Gun, where Roger Moore made his second appearance as the British secret agent. The film's "most outrageous sequence" begins with Sheriff J.W. Pepper, who on holiday in Thailand with his wife, admi...
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Like Hudson in its Hornet days (and Chrysler Corporation in 1970), all AMC’s cars were made with a unibody design. Unlike the original Hornet, the AMC/Rambler version was an economy car, not a sports car.
Oct 21, 2020 · The Hornet and its Hornet based successors kept AMC alive during the 1970s decade and early 1980s which was just long enough until AMC’s Jeep division began to flourish by the mid-1980s which kept AMC alive until the Chrysler Corporation’s purchase of AMC.
Jan 14, 2021 · Most Hornets sold were six-cylinder models, and only 784 SC/360 were produced. For 1972 AMC used all the high-performance parts manufactured in 1971 to produce the Hornet X package, the closest model to the discontinued factory-produced SC/360.
Jan 9, 2007 · The SC/360 turned out to be a sleeper in more ways than one. Even with a base price of just $2,663 (about $40 below the '71 Duster 340), it made up only a fraction of the 75,000 Hornets built for '71. The SC/360 died after just one year as one of the muscle car era's better-kept secrets.
May 1, 2022 · Sure, the Hornet had its SC/360 and X variants and made some bones on the dragstrip, but that’s all according to the American muscle car philosophy of big engine, small car, see how fast it goes. Could the Hornet have been refined and taken seriously as something other than a straight-line performer?
