page_title: AMC Gremlin
section_title: Australia
hierarchical_section_title: AMC Gremlin / Other markets / Australia
caption_attribution_description: English: 1971 AMI Rambler Gremlin assembled in Australia by Australian Motor Industries (AMI). The automobile is from a complete knock down (CKD) kit from American Motors Corporation (AMC).
context_page_description: The AMC Gremlin is a subcompact automobile introduced in 1970, manufactured and marketed in a single, two-door body style by American Motors Corporation, as well as in Mexico by AMC's Vehículos Automotores Mexicanos subsidiary.
  Using a shortened Hornet platform and bodywork with a pronounced kammback tail, the Gremlin was classified as an economy car and competed with the Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto, as well as imported cars including the Volkswagen Beetle and Toyota Corolla. The small domestic automaker marketed the Gremlin as "the first American-built import."
  The Gremlin reached a total production of 671,475 over a single generation—and was superseded by a restyled and revised variant, the AMC Spirit.
context_section_description: AMC exported a fully built Gremlin to its Australian partner, Australian Motor Industries (AMI) of Port Melbourne, Victoria in 1970 for evaluation purposes. (AMI assembled and marketed other AMC models, ie. AMX, Hornet, Javelin, and Matador, in Australia, since 1961.) The evaluation model was painted in AMC's "Big Bad Orange" and was converted from left-hand drive to right-hand drive by Sydney Toyota dealer Bill Buckle Pty Ltd. The car featured AMC's 232 cu in (3.8 L) six-cylinder engine and a three-speed manual transmission. The car was presented  at the 1970 Sydney Motor Show to gauge interest and test the market. 
  The car was featured on the front cover of the November 1970 issue of Australia's top motoring magazine, Wheels magazine. The magazine's review pointed to the likelihood  that the "local content" requirements would force the price up to that of the high-priced, Australian-assembled Hornet, and probably price the car out of the market.
  For marketing purposes it was branded as a "Rambler Gremlin" in keeping with the use of the Rambler marque for all AMC vehicles sold in Australia despite that Rambler as a brand was retired in the United States at the end of the 1969 model year. However, no Gremlin models were put into production in Australia.  
  Right-hand-drive Gremlins were imported into Australia by U.S. servicemen.
caption: One-off Australian Gremlin, first featured at the 1970 Sydney Motor Show.
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