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The Pacer was the second American production car, after the Ford Pinto, to feature rack-and-pinion steering. [32] The system was mounted low at the front of the crossmember. The body was designed with the aim that structural lines protected it from hit damage, and AMC engineers claimed that they succeeded in more than 50% of the car's surface.
The publication noted that the car took 37.5 seconds to go from 0–60 MPH, it was dangerously structurally deficient in a 30MPH crash test with a standard car, and its bumpers were "virtually useless against anything more formidable than a watermelon", all of which made the publication deem the 360 "unacceptably hazardous". [40]
Jason Rubin (born 1970) is an American video game director, writer, and comic book creator. He is best known for the Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter series of games which were produced by Naughty Dog, the game development studio he co-founded with partner and childhood friend Andy Gavin in 1986.
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Richard Arthur "Dick" Teague [2] (December 26, 1923 – May 5, 1991) was an American industrial designer in the North American automotive industry. He held automotive design positions at General Motors, Packard, and Chrysler before becoming Vice President of Design for American Motors Corporation (AMC).
Pacer (British Rail), a type of passenger railbus, used in the United Kingdom and the Middle East; AMC Pacer, an American car produced by the American Motors Corporation; Edsel Pacer, an American car produced by Ford; Pacer International, a transportation logistic provider and the parent company of Pacer Stracktrain
May 12 – An American civilian contractor in Iraq, Nick Berg, is shown being decapitated by a group allegedly linked to al-Qaeda on an Internet-distributed video. They state it is retaliation for the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. May 13 – The final episode of Frasier airs on NBC. The episode was viewed by 33.7 million people, being the 11th ...
What is often overlooked today are the impacts these two cars had. The AMC Gremlin had a big influence on subsequent hatchback small car design automobiles of the late-1970s and beyond. The AMC Pacer introduced numerous design trends and technologies that were later incorporated by all automakers in following decades.