Originally Posted by sonoronos
As the question asks, what's the connection exactly between the XF and the AMX? I saw a few more pictures in the gallery and it seems to be something that quite a few people see.
I'm too young to remember the AMX so can someone enlighten me?
Sonoronos, You're asking a perfectly legitimate question, and I'll try to answer it as best I can.
First, I take full responsibility for this whole Crossfire/AMX misrepresentation. As we all know, Chrysler never built any vehicles wearing an AMX logo. But after Chrysler's purchase of AMC in 1987, they acquired the copyright to all that once belonged to American Motors. Over the years Chrysler chose to use some old AMC logos, such as, Spirit, Concord, Eagle and SST. But none of Chrysler's creations ever remotely resembled their American Motors counterpart.
Fast forward to the "Merger of equals "aka" the Daimler/Chrysler tragedy" and finally a car with a Chrysler nameplate arrives that so completely embodies everything the AMX once was 35 years earlier, and Chrysler (in its infinite wisdom) doesn't use the AMX nameplate. Instead it chose to use a logo that once adorned a poor performing General Motors Injection system.
Now I can't speak for Jim (AMX1397) but for me it's an act of righteous indignation and civil disobedience that I chose to create a "What If" version of the Crossfire, or a Crossfire/AMX if you will. Something I think Chrysler should have done in the 1st. place.
If you read this thread:
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...ead.php?t=9100
You may get a better idea of where I'm coming from.