By offering personbilens comfort and terrängbilens accessibility pointed Eagle up against today’s most popular segments, suven. In any case, in northern latitudes on this side of the pond.
choose the contemporary Matra/Simca/Talbot Rancho, but it was only fitted with a Simca 1100. The look promised a lot with grilles for the headlights and roof rails. But any car other than smooth asphalt was not, tvåhjulsdriven who the model was.
the Technology World test drove the AMC Eagle in the winter of 1981. The model was actually the only american car you could buy from a dealer that model year 1982. Its pluggable four-wheel drive to despite the fact it was basically ”just” a car. Some diffspärrar or lågväxlar was not, but access to the high ground clearance gave it the fully adequate accessibility for most people.
Despite the fact that ”the Eagle” was equipped with the summer tires, took the magazine’s provkörare Day E Hogsten over both ice patches through snow drifts without a problem.
new but karossformen felt again from the 1969 Hornet, and technically speaking it was a yanks of the old school. Rigid rear axle and leaf springs, and a motor in cast iron, which although ”only” six cylinders slurpade in petrol as a vinkelåtta: 1.5 litre per mile on the highway, and 2.2 in the urban environment.
the Engine was at 4.3 liters and produced 116 horsepower, at the same time as it was forced to lug a 1.7 tonne car.
Also, the instrumentation went in good jänkeanda, with fuskträ and scattered controls. But automatväxelväljaren sat on the floor.
however, clearly lagging behind in comparison with folkhemsfavoriten Volvo 245. Utrymmesmässigt seemed the Eagle almost as a joke, the passengers in the back seat had it as crowded as the bags in the skuffen. So any skills that a migrant had ”the Eagle” certainly not.
Perhaps it was just as good to hit systermodellen SX/4, four-wheel drive but with coupékaross. Also a precursor to a present-day segment, then the later was to ”lend” their model to the Suzuki, which, however, write SX4 without the /.
