The AMC AMX/3 (alternate spelling: AMX III) is a mid-engine sports car produced by the American carmaker American Motors Corporation (AMC), which was presented to the Italian press in March 1970 and was to be produced in Germany by Karmann starting in 1971.

May 1967 AMC gave Richard “Dick” Teague, the head of design at American Motors, and Bob Nixon, his chief designer, are given the go-ahead to propose a mid-engined prototype. The project was called AMX/K and it convinced AMC management of the idea to actually build a mid-engined sports car, the AMX/3.

Extensively researched with exceptional commitment, and beautifully restored, this stunning AMX/3 carries unbroken provenance from new — and a particularly fascinating early history as the Monza test car for the AMX/3 development program.

2020年3月25日 · Enter the AMX/3, perhaps the rarest American sports car of the early 1970s. Despite never making its intended impact on AMC's fortunes, the story of the AMX/3 is filled with intriguing twists and turns that point to what might have been for the last major independent American automaker to survive into the 80s.

Based on the Javelin, but patterned after European exotic cars like the Lamborghini Miura and the Lotus Europa, the AMX/3 was one of the most unusual cars to come out of Detroit in the late 1960s. The Italian firm of Giotto Bizzarrini handled the …

2013年8月30日 · One can only presume the AMC officials agreed, and the very car that impressed them has now come up for sale. One of only six built, the AMX/3 is best known as number 4, and according to owner Walter Kirtland of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, it’s the only one of the six to have been branded not as an AMC but as an “AMX/3 by Bizzarrini.”

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2022年7月18日 · More than a half century before the mid-engine C8 Chevrolet Corvette, an American automaker made an exotic mid-engine sports car. It was powered by an American V-8 and sported Italian bodywork.

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