With a shoestring budget, AMC developed the Gremlin to take on the fuel-efficient offerings from abroad as well as the Ford Pinto and Chevy Vega.

The Gremlin actually earned generally positive reviews from the automotive press, and buyers responded positively, as well. AMC even saddled up a very ’70s Levi’s denim trim and interior package.

If your car’s gas filler is its hungry mouth, then its gas cap has to be its, um, mouth-cover? Pacifier? No, that’s terrible. This analogy is terrible. The point is, interesting gas caps are ...

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 ...

I can’t really talk about this 6.6-liter V8, four-speed tribute 1974 AMC Gremlin 401-XR without talking about the original, and we can’t talk about the original without talking about the basic ...

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.

Nicknamed "Street Sweeper" by Car and Driver magazine, the Randall 401-XR was an outrageous little hatchback with a muscle car heart ...

The AMC Gremlin goes on sale in the U.S. on April 1, 1970, competing with the Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto introduced six months later, in addition to imports such as the Volkswagen Beetle and ...

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.

This somewhat unusual rendering fixes the Gremlin's lack of power by slapping a Dodge Challenger Hellcat front end to the hatchback ...

A magazine ad for 1974 AMC Gremlin, touting its 18 mpg fuel economy and good warranty coverage. The Gremlin was more powerful than Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto.

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 ...