Amazing how times have changed. This was know as an economy car back in the day but barely averaged 15 mpg overall. My 2010 Prius that is 13 yrs old averages 52 mpg with power everything and a/c on most of the time as I live in south Florida
The pacer only lasted 5 years. 75-79. The problem with AMC was they didn't have the money to build a modern front drive car. The 1983 Alliance was made by Renault.
We did a documentary on the AMC Pacer a while back. I wish we would have know about this clip; we could have used it! Do you ever license footage from your TH-cam channel?
Look at the body of the pacer from the rear...it looks like a crossover on a car platform. So in essence everybody who drives an SUV is driving some form of an AMC Pacer in one way or another
That’s a ridiculous assertion. Now, if you compared them AMC Eagle (a few years later) to the modern car-based crossover SUV trend, that would be accurate.
The looks didn't kill the Pacer. Its weight, poor gas mileage and poor performance did. Designing it for a rotary engine to be built by a competitor that never materialized didn't help either. All this plus the lack of capital to fund car designs and updates pretty much doomed this car and ultimately all of AMC which is really unfortunate.
By the mid 1970s, Toyota and Datsun were becoming the gold standard for small, economical and durable cars. Did you ever do a comparison test or similar report depicting these impressive imports versus what Detroit was producing?
It barely last four years on the market - and even had a somewhat expensive facelift halfway through its lifespan. In some ways, the Pacer was ahead of its time but with that being said it was slow, not that pretty, got very hot in the summer, and wasn’t particularly roomy (in the back seat and trunk) or economical. But it’s looks are what kept most people out of the showroom.
2:18 "Pacer may well be setting the trend for future automotive design " Looking at you, Porsche 928 😁
Amazing how times have changed. This was know as an economy car back in the day but barely averaged 15 mpg overall. My 2010 Prius that is 13 yrs old averages 52 mpg with power everything and a/c on most of the time as I live in south Florida
The pacer only lasted 5 years. 75-79. The problem with AMC was they didn't have the money to build a modern front drive car. The 1983 Alliance was made by Renault.
Not correct, it lasted six model years, 1975-1980.
Didn't have the money to design a front drive car from scratch, but they built the Alliance in Kenosha.
'75. EXCELLENT!!!!!!! PARTY ON, BOB!!!!!
Wow.... my typo, sorry. It's corrected!
:)!!!!! I LOVED the blimp test you did!!!!!! Wonder why they never caught on.......LOL!!!!!!!!!
We did a documentary on the AMC Pacer a while back. I wish we would have know about this clip; we could have used it! Do you ever license footage from your TH-cam channel?
Love YOUR channel, too, BTW. I've been an AMC fan since I was 13 years old.
@@seiph80 Thanks! Glad to hear that you're a fan! Stay tuned, because we have something big coming up...
Pacer is nice but ambassador is better.
Btw pacer Frontend rips off 69 American.
Look at the body of the pacer from the rear...it looks like a crossover on a car platform. So in essence everybody who drives an SUV is driving some form of an AMC Pacer in one way or another
That’s a ridiculous assertion. Now, if you compared them AMC Eagle (a few years later) to the modern car-based crossover SUV trend, that would be accurate.
@@RoadCone411 I agree with you sir.
Luvya Bob !
The looks didn't kill the Pacer. Its weight, poor gas mileage and poor performance did. Designing it for a rotary engine to be built by a competitor that never materialized didn't help either. All this plus the lack of capital to fund car designs and updates pretty much doomed this car and ultimately all of AMC which is really unfortunate.
By the mid 1970s, Toyota and Datsun were becoming the gold standard for small, economical and durable cars. Did you ever do a comparison test or similar report depicting these impressive imports versus what Detroit was producing?
I never did a straight comparison report, but certainly did test Toyota a Datsun cars. They were always superior.
10 years? They wanted to keep it until 1985!
Shamefully AMC would resort Renault and later disappeared for the rest of the century
It barely last four years on the market - and even had a somewhat expensive facelift halfway through its lifespan. In some ways, the Pacer was ahead of its time but with that being said it was slow, not that pretty, got very hot in the summer, and wasn’t particularly roomy (in the back seat and trunk) or economical. But it’s looks are what kept most people out of the showroom.
@@RoadCone411 All of AMC vehicles were ugly.
@@RoadCone411 I love it. At least it´s design and idea behind. A comfortable compact, that is missing until today!
@@RoadCone411 And it was meant to be a rotary engined car!
@@RoadCone411 A little longer. It was available from the 1975 model year through the 1980 model year.
If it got better mileage, AMC probably would have survived longer.
God that build quality was so low!
Rolling fishbowl.
Idk about back then, but embarrassing the pilling off. And 10 years? Pacer didn't even last 5 if I am right
Six model years, 1975-1980.