AMC commonly referred to as A American Motors Corporation was an American automobile manufacturing company formed by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company on May 1, 1954. At the time, it was the largest corporate merger in U.S. history. American Motors' most similar competitors were those automakers that held similar annual sales levels such as Studebaker, Packard, Kaiser Motors, and Willys-Overland. Their largest competitors were the Big Three Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler.
American Motors's production line included small cars - the Rambler American which began as the Nash Rambler in 1950, Hornet, Gremlin, and Pacer intermediate and full-sized cars, including the Ambassador, Rebel, and Matador muscle cars, including the Marlin, AMX and Javelin and early four-wheel drive variants of the Eagle, the first true crossover in the U.S. market.
