If your car’s gas filler is its ... Both cars wore their fuel fillers ... And, I think we can all agree, there’s two real standouts in the field: the Ford Mustang and the AMC Gremlin. But ...

In place of the typical inline-six or rare 304 AMC V-8 powerplant, this tube-chassis machine is powered by an AMC 401 V-8 with a high-rose single-plane intake and a 950CFM four-barrel.

The AMC Gremlin, a fast and colorful Jolly Rancher of a car, was the result of reduced gasoline supplies in the late 1960s (which played a role in the 1973 oil crisis), and the nation’s sudden ...

Its initial fuel economy was 23 mpg — at the time, ... AMC Gremlin. It’s hard to remember the 1970s without you. Related Video: Video ID: 1bad6cc6-7a52-35d8-9491-5137e4950539.

One of those small, cheap, and fuel-efficient cars was the AMC Gremlin, a subcompact introduced by AMC in 1970. The Gremlin gets a V8. Photo: Christopher Ziemnowicz via Wikimedia Commons.

AMC first came up with the concept for the Gremlin in the late 1960s, believing that Americans were more open than ever to buying fuel efficient subcompact imports such as the VW Beetle and Toyota ...

History has been unkind to the AMC Gremlin, but the truth is that the strange-looking subcompact was a great little car for its time. It’s a terrible car that wasn’t actually terrible.

I can’t really talk about this 6.6-liter V8, four-speed tribute 1974 AMC Gremlin 401-XR without talking about the original, ... fuel-efficient vehicles decades before the oil embargo years.

Solve the Oil Crisis with the New 1974 AMC Gremlin. With a gas-sipping six-cylinder engine, the Gremlin is touted for its 18 mpg rated fuel economy. By Murilee Martin Published: Mar 28, 2024.

AMC then offered a 2.0L four cylinder powerplant sourced from VW-Audi in 1977 and, despite slow sales, the option lasted the remainder of the Gremlin's lifetime.