1970 AMC AMX/3 – 6 examples
Encouraged by the success of Javelin and AMX, AMC management wanted to go further and attack the sports car market. They had the funds to do so but they didn’t have a starting point. Very soon, AMC hired renewed sports car creator and ex-Ferrari engineer Giotto Bizzarrini and asked him to build them a modern sports car with a sleek body, rear engine, and transaxle design (via Hagerty).
The AMX/3 prototype was capable of 170 mph. It had world-class handling and sexy Italian styling. AMC’s 390 V8 engine provided power with 340 horsepower. Despite the promising start, AMC realized that the finished product would cost somewhere around $12,000. That price was significantly more than a similarly designed De Tomaso Pantera and almost double the price of the Corvette. Unfortunately but understandably, they decided to kill the fantastic AMX/3 after just six pre-production cars left the factory.