American Motors Corporation (AMC) was an American automobile company formed by the 1954 merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company — at the time, it was the largest corporate merger in U.S. history.
American Motors (AMC) purchased Kaiser's Jeep operations in 1970 with Jeep's utility vehicles complementing AMC's passenger car business. AMC partnered with France's Renault, from 1980 to 1987, when Chrysler purchased AMC. Both...
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American Motors Corporation (AMC) was an American automobile company formed by the 1954 merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company — at the time, it was the largest corporate merger in U.S. history.
American Motors (AMC) purchased Kaiser's Jeep operations in 1970 with Jeep's utility vehicles complementing AMC's passenger car business. AMC partnered with France's Renault, from 1980 to 1987, when Chrysler purchased AMC. Both AMC and Renault brands ceased in the United States, while Jeep and some Eagle models continued under Chrysler.
In January 1954 Nash-Kelvinator Corporation began acquisition of the Hudson Motor Car Company (in what was called a merger) to form American Motors. The deal was a straight stock transfer (three shares of Hudson listed at 11⅛, for two shares of AMC and one share of Nash-Kelvinator listed at 17⅜, for one share of AMC) and finalized in the spring of 1954, forming the fourth-biggest auto company in the U.S. with assets of $355 million...
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