Talk:American Motors Corporation

Mitsubishi Relation to Chrysler

In the section where Chrysler bought out Renault, it is stated that Mitsubishi was formerly under Chrysler. That is not correct. Chrysler marketed some of Mitsubishi's cars but never never had any control over Mitsubishi Motor Corporation.Corumplex (talk) 18:57, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Chrysler did more than simply market Mitsubishi cars. Starting in 1970, the initial agreement for a joint venture with Chrysler is concluded (See here). In 1985, a joint corporation with Chrysler is set up for producing passenger cars in the United States that later becomes Diamond-Star Motors (See here). This had a 50-50 ownership between Chrysler and Mitsubishi. In 1993, Chrysler sold off its stock holdings of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (See here). You are correct that all of Mitsubishi Motors was not under Chrysler. Nevertheless a significant subsidiary manufacturing vehicles in the United States was in effect controlled by Chrysler under the equal partnership agreement at that time. Moreover, the point is to make a historic parallel when Renault had equity (and control) of American Motors in the 1980s, with the case of Mitsubishi in which Nissan has a controlling interest (and is thus a part of the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance). Cheers, CZmarlin (talk) 23:44, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

I stand corrected. I was of the opinion that Mitsubishi was just using Chrysler dealers to market their products in N. America, as the British Leland produced "Cricket" which was sold by Plymouth in the 1970's. It does pose the question of why Mitsubishi was able to open their own dealer network to compete for sales with Dodge and Plymouth dealers?Corumplex (talk) 18:06, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Header comment about propaganda

This section is just weird sounding.. can it be removed?

"One of the key issues American Motors faced in the US auto industry was the task of maintaining a respectable corporate image in that all new theater of disinformation that began after the theories of propoganda were revised by Edward Bernay's book named "Propoganda". We may notice one example of plausible disinformation near the firm's 1987 demise when The New York Times noted that AMC was "never a company with the power or the cost structure to compete confidently at home or abroad."[6] -Despite American Motors noteworthy success of the AM General HUMVEE military vehicle, which when it was introduced in 1985 immediately became the world's most rugged and capable off road vehicle by it's all new innovational design. In this regard, the history of American Motors and Studebaker provides much literary territory that may be searched for examples of disinformation. "

Thank you for the notice. This rubbish is now removed! Cheers - CZmarlin (talk) 22:35, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned references in American Motors Corporation

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of American Motors Corporation's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "hyde":

• From Ajax (American automobile): Hyde, Charles K. (2009). Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors. Wayne State University Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-8143-3446-1.
• From Hudson Jet: Hyde, Charles K. (2009). Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors. Wayne State University Press. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-8143-3446-1. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
• From AMC Gremlin: Hyde, Charles K. (2009). Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors. Wayne State University Press. pp. 216–217. ISBN 978-0-8143-3446-1. Retrieved June 27, 2014.
• From Jeep DJ: Hyde, Charles K. (2009). Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors. Wayne State University Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-8143-3446-1. Retrieved 26 December 2010.
• From Charles T. Jeffery: Hyde, Charles K. (2009). Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors. Wayne State University Press. p. 39. ISBN 9780814334461. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
• From Gerald C. Meyers: Hyde, Charles K. (2009). Storied independent automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors. Wayne State University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-8143-3446-1. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
• From American automobile industry in the 1950s: Hyde, Charles K. (2003). "The Late 1950s: Exit DeSoto, Enter Valiant". Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation. pp. 179–181. ISBN 0-8143-3091-6. Retrieved April 28, 2013.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 13:55, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

1974 CJ 5. Yellow (510) paint code

How many were produced with this paint? 2601:87:4000:4450:CB15:6659:1902:F17E (talk) 17:27, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Video of walk through of Kenosha "Lakefront" plant.

I'm a new editor. I'm not really sure if posting a link to an externally hosted video to the article is good or bad editing. And I'm not particularly vested in this article either. So, I'll just leave the link here for this articles editors to do as they please. The video is "A tour of the Chrysler Motors Kenosha lakefront assembly plant one month before shutdown on Nov. 22nd, 1988. Employees take you inside, outside and even on top of this historic facility." It's well shot and narrated by an hourly employee shortly before this plant was permanently closed down. It's 2 hours, he takes the viewer all throughout the plant, and it's extremely informative...& just plain charming. I'm uncertain what best practices are here; but, I feel strongly that this document ought to be somehow included in the Kenosha "lakefront" Wisconson Factory section. Rip to AMC: The Kenosha Automoble Plant Final Shutdown https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4QEy6hRROF0 Aristarchus of Detroit (talk) 17:28, 25 September 2024 (UTC)