Anybody remember when AMC teamed up with Renault to make the Alliance and Encores?

Question

I remember my brothers friend buying a used Alliance in the early 90's for about 600 dollars. I think it was a 1985. It had four doors, and it was copper colored. It was a nice car, but it turned out to be a heap. I remember reading about a recall they had around that time with the heater cores exploding.

Answer 1

Good cars very good fuel economy very good engineering.I'm from Argentina and they were manufactured here too.The only difference the argentines ones came with carburetor different headlights and different bumpers(smaller than americans).Here in Argentina Renault sold them as Renault 9(Alliance) and Renault 11(Encore).There's a lot of them here still running fine.Later they were replaced with the renault 19.

Answer 2

The Alliance was built from 1983-1988

http://www.19333.com/emma/history.kizml


In its final years, AMC was primarily a manufacturer of non-AMC vehicles: cars designed by Renault, which bought a controlling interest in the company, and the Jeep line, acquired from Kaiser in 1970. Finally, Renault sold out to Chrysler in 1987, and the Last Independent was history.

Answer 3

Ah yes, the CAR OF THE YEAR for 1983. "Motor Trend again awarded an AMC product the Car of the Year award, though this time it was for the three-box design Renault Alliance."

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Those cars were extreme pieces of crap.