Just as there was once an age of giant reptiles some 100-odd million years ago, there was once an age of American automotive giants. Although they may be dinosaurs today, the “Big Three”—General ...

Chad has been a muscle car and classic truck lover since he could walk. The classic vehicles from the '60s and '70s are the best in his eyes, but he is more than willing to give the new technology a ...

American Motors Corporation arrived late to the pony car party, but when it finally rolled out the Javelin, the smallest of Detroit’s automakers suddenly had a spotlight of its own. The Javelin gave ...

Back in the heyday of big-blocks and Tang, one American automotive brand stood outside the norm—American Motors Corporation, or AMC. Created out of what was at the time the largest corporate merger in ...

Miriam-Webster dictionary defines a muscle car as "any of a group of American-made 2-door sports coupes with powerful engines designed for high-performance driving." Of course, sometimes the lines get ...

The American Motors Corporation (AMC) is likely best remembered as the plucky underdog competitor to the Big Three in the late 1960s and 1970s, with cars like the Hornet, Javelin, Matador, and ...

In the most secluded corners of Planet Speed hide some of the most radical car worshipers – those with no tolerance for anything that doesn’t run on reciprocating pistons. They don’t use many words, ...

Some of the most popular cars to ever come out of the United States were introduced during the classic muscle car era, a period of time spanning the early-mid 1960s to the beginning of the 1970s.

Produced from 1968 to 1970, the AMC AMX is one of the most underrated muscle cars of the golden era. Based on the Javelin, which was also new for 1968, the AMX was unique thanks to its shorter ...

A striking example of an AMC Javelin AMX finished in bold mustard yellow, showcasing its muscular fastback design, performance-focused stance, and distinctive American styling from the muscle car era.

As the car company with the practical reputation of being the car for the human race, American Motors seemed ill-equipped to respond to the performance revolution of the 1960s, and even less likely to ...