"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
08/02/2020 at 06:25 • Filed to: hour rule, AMC
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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
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AMC Electron
Just Jeepin'
> pip bip - choose Corrour
08/02/2020 at 06:34 |
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Completely new to me, thx.
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> Just Jeepin'
08/02/2020 at 06:41 |
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happy to help
ranwhenparked
> Just Jeepin'
08/02/2020 at 11:24 |
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Unfortunately, American Motors couldn’t afford completely new, the 1977 Electron was a repainted and facelifted concept car from the ‘60s.
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Just Jeepin'
> ranwhenparked
08/02/2020 at 11:27 |
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I’ve theorized that the only reason we still have a Wrangler that has (mostly) the same open air experience/off-road chops/etc as the original MB is that Jeep has historically always been owned by a company who couldn’t actually afford to be in the automobile manufacturing biz, and thus both couldn’t risk losing the nostalgia market and couldn’t radically remake the design.
Willys-Overland, Kaiser, AMC, Renault, Chrysler, FCA, now Stellantis (ugh); always the underdog.
SiennaMan
> Just Jeepin'
08/02/2020 at 12:14 |
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Basically. Since they’ve not stopped selling inspite of being the same design they’ve not been tempted to change it. (no cash strapped company is going to change a 70 YO design that still sells for a premium..)
It makes me wonder how much they'd have changed from Willys 1940s design if it weren't for changing safety regs..