I would not be able to say the AMX wasn't a success. It was short lived but had a pretty wide popularity with those that liked something a little different. They also made the best police car on the planet that only one car in it's run almost outran and that was the 1970 Pontiac Judge. Still people till this day love making little alternative pony cars out of them and anyone who has ever seen one will recognize it a mile down the street and know it by name. It was short lived but in it's short run I would call the AMX one of the most successful cars on the market .

The Delorean was an under performer and pricey. Perhaps if it had a better drivetrain it could have succeeded.

AMC AMX :D such an awesome muscle car

The AMX was my dream car in 6th grade. I remember looking at them in the Round Up and AutoTrader magazines of the time. I’ve only seen two in real life.

Wow!!, thanks for another great video. Keep the great videos coming!!!, thanks!!👍👍

Ah, 914-8??? ... I see what you did there! Nice save! Because the 914 in the video had a Chevy V8 engine in it. The last time I have seen a 914 with a Chevy engine was back in the 90's at Frisco's in Downey, CA. There was cruise night every Wednesday night. Fun times!

I think the saddest one here is the Tucker. It had that center headlight that was directional, like the extra pair on a Citroen DS. My Dad said one time he was going about 70mph on the Interstate and a Tucker burned past him going probably 100! (I feel sorry for the clutch in that Bugatti, and the Saturns.) Great video!!!!

I agree on this list, the deloreon was a car I grew up watching on tv, and always wanted one. It would be nice to see someone bring that style back

love the tucker

The AMC was a good looking car. Matchbox made a stiffly sprung green one with a hood scoop lol. The Delorean had a pos engine in it. It was really a very terrible motor that one. Try changing the injector seals, water pump, spark plugs or distributor cap on those motors and you'll know EXACTLY what I'm talking about. In addition they blew head gaskets with monotonous frequency, they had wet sleeves that leaked water, the blocks suffered porosity issues causing internal and external coolant leaks and the EGR system coated the entire intake system with an oily muddy substance that caused the EGR valve to stick open causing the motor to not idle properly; the cure being to spend full 2 days taking the intake manifold off and you just knew it was going to come back in a few weeks with the same problem! - like I said a very terrible engine. On top of that they were underwhelming in the power department. They were one of those engines that may have been better if you drove them long distances every day but for stop start driving they were didn't work. A worse engine is hard to imagine and as you can see I know a bit about them.

Re: the Saturn Sky and the Pontiac what are the numbers for displacement, bhp, torque, braking? How does it handle?

There was no javelin??????

The Saturn 👍🏽💯

The Sky and the Solstice were genuinely handsome little cars,they should have been good sellers.

The first one looks like a very slightly changed Vauxhall VX220 turbo - a UK General Motors brand at that time.

The most accurate representation of the Delorean was in Back to the Future where the damn thing wouldn't run half the damn time and would barely get to 90 mph unless it was being pushed.

That's okay, as you could get a nice drivetrain kit to replace the one that the Plymouth Prowler had and to also get a Hellcrate kit under the hood to give it the power that it truly deserved.

The first car reminds me of a guy where I worked had a Mustang with no weight in the back, every time he took off he squealed the tires. A guy in my neighborhood had an AMX Javelin. When the crappy boat anchor AMC motor threw the towel and he couldn’t find another good one we talked him into changing to small block Chevy . He put in 350 Chevy with turbo trans and then he had trouble keeping it on the road. ( it looks like one in video has Chevy motor ) I knew a guy that worked for AMC and he told us about some cars that didn’t make it, one was a car he said looked better than AMX but it couldn’t pass speed tests. He said over 100 mph it would try to fly.

Always thought GM should have come up with a new nose for the Sky/Vue and kept it on as a Buick.

A little trivia. At the end of Cannonball Run 2 I think Frank Sinatra drives a Pontiac Fiero.

should have had Ford Starliner 1960 - 62 i think it had 2 years of production was the start of muscle car era big beautiful car

The Saturn Sky and the Pontiac Solstice are in fact Opel/Vauxahll GT's,there is also the Korean Hyunday G2X and even a Chevy G2X

I call a video that lures you in with something awesome like the orange AMC Javlin picture that isn't actually in the video CLICK BAIT!

I think Pontiac Solstice is kind of Fiero all over again. But what about the Predecessor for that (or the Opel GT as the version of Solstice was known in Europe)? It had a bit less power, but weighted 400 kilograms less and was designed by Lotus.

Friend has a sky redline with about 430hp It's fast lol.

The first car has been marketed here in Germany as Opel GT. That alone was a mistake, they should have named it Lotus. But it was equipped with a totally unmatching 2.2 l rev - unwilling 4 - cyl. from a limousine, nasty gearbox and impractical chassis design that almost no customer was willing to pay the price much higher than that from the MX 5. It also suffered from reliability problems and crappy workmanship so it had no chance against its well made rival what was equipped with the rev - happy 1,6 twin cam from the 323 GT and a very crisp 5 speed manual.

The Buick Reatta was another one that should have been much more - I actually drove a friends and it was severly under powered - I would still like to have it though. And the saddest is the AMX - I had 3 of them (and 4 Javelins) and yes, I was addicted to them. That's all I can say cuz I wish I still had them...

How about the GMC Cyclone and the Typhoon... Or the Mitsubishi 3000gt.. Grand national. Chevy SSR..

Where was the Studebaker Avanti? Yeah, it had teething pains, but Studebaker got them worked out about the time the Board of Directors forced Sherwood Egbert out and pulled the plug on the South Bend plant. Note also that the regular production R2 supercharged Studebaker 289 with just a bit of tuning set 15 records at Bonneville in the unlimited displacement class.

Ferris Bueller's sister has a Pontiac Fiero (he got a computer).

I guess you couldn't find a real 914/6?

Where are the pintos. The Vega. The maverick. The gremlins. Lol

I'm suprised the Delorean made it through the test drive....

THE EB110 is so much prettier than the current model there are some videos covering the sad end to this machine .

What about oldsmobile toronado 1973

You can still buy deloreans today

The Delorean needed a better power-train; plain and simple. Same with the Prowler.

3.21 lol He's getting Dusted

the 1st one is a opel gt from the 2000´s

InGermany Porsche 914 was called "VW-Porsche" by people. That didn't go well with its owners.^^ Pontiac Fiero is a car that could never ever be successful in Germany.

.........and the 2004-later pontiac gto????

Yes the Tucker was way ahead of the other " big three" auto manufacturers as far technical innovations, so they made sure that it was buried any way they could. Damn shame! But greed succeeds.

Of course, if you REALLY want to impress people, put a Cadillac CTS-V or 2019 Chevrolet C7 Corvette ZR1 engine under the hood of a Saturn Sky Redline or Pontiac Solstice GXP (or Third Generation Opel GT or Daewoo G2X if you can get one of them as well) and THEN you will legitimately scare people.

I don't think that first Saturn is actually running right and needs a tune-up.....

Is it just me but the bugatti eb110 seems like a nicer car than the new ones

You left out one of the greatest AMC cars- the Hornet SC360.

the saturn sky and the opel gt look similar

Comparing AMX to a Corvette...haha.

DeLorean DMC-12 Performance Saturns AMC AMX Bugatti EB110

AMC made very good cars and the Javelins and AMX's were bad to the bone. They disappeared because American Motors disappeared. It was a tiny Mid Western company that could not hope to compete with the big 3.

The AMC Javelins and AMX's were great muscle cars, but the company was way to small to compete with the big 3.

AMX stood for American Motors Experimental, and they were totally different cars from Javelin's with no parts interchangability despite their similar looks, some people mistakenly call them AMX Javelin's but that's incorrect, no where on an AMX will you see a Javelin badge..

Execs at GM killed the Fiero because they didn't want it competing with the beloved Corvette. The Fiero could have been a really successful car if not for GM execs.

914-4 never had a decent engine, even by the standards of the day. Great handling and fun to drive. Like to see one with a VW VR6 engine. GM screwed up the Saturn brand. Had an SW2, it was a fun car to drive with good handling and decent performance from it's 1.9 and automatic. Instead of developing Saturns, GM got lazy and cheap and relabeled other GM products.

Doesn't tell you anything at all about any of the cars shown !

I don't think you could fit a V8 in the Plymouth Prowler

Sadly, most of these products would never get production approval today. Now companies just want to sell SUV's and borring stuff.

I am from europe, saturn sky it is opel gt, saturn only copy paste cars from Opel...

Well 914.6...or 8 straight line vehicle turns ass heavy why you saw video at track 944 blew past 60/40 balance

Apparently if it requires actual investigation this channel should not get involved and instead just relies on complete hearsay. While the Tucker did have issues with an SEC investigation which did put the final nail in the coffin there was a long string of poor decisions and bad engineering which doomed the project long before the SEC got involved. Tucker tried to invent a new engine that would use hydraulic valve actuation instead of using a camshaft and pushrod. This cost a significant amount of time and money and once they got a prototype running it produced much less power than they had advertised and was damn near impossible to start. This lead Tucker to buy an airplane engine company which at the time held 65% of the post war aviation engine contracts, all of which Tucker cancelled, to produce an engine. He then had his engineers convert the air cooled aircraft engine over to water cooled which took a lot of time and money. These are just a few of the blunders that lead to Preston Tucker's car company failing. He did have a number of excellent ideas and he may have been successful had he tried to tackle one or two innovations at a time however he tried to reinvent everything on the car in a time frame that just was not plausible all while having little to no money actually coming into the company.

Not flat straight hood on the DeLorean and that looking too high on the front end made it the ugliest car ever!

The Bugatti was but ugly. The AMX was merely a shortened Javelin. Was targeted at the 'Vette but was really a 2 seat pony car. And that was a market in decline at the time. Also see E Body Chrysler products, 1970-73. Delorean was an overpriced, underpowered slug. The Prowler was WAY COOL but not a practical car. Pontiac ditched the Chevette derived front suspension just in time to deep 6 the Fiero. Tucker lacked the funds to go into production. The 50 cars built used junkyard Cord transmissions.

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The first car is also known as the Opel GT mark 2 in Europe.

The EB110 is just plain ugly.

Why aren't Saturns made today? In 2009 when Barack Obama took control of GM, he got rid of Saturn cars. Why? Saturns were made in Tennessee Tennessee is not a union state; so Saturn had to go.