Dave if you have never ridden in an AMX before, or even driven one, it may be hard for one to see the connection. Because both cars are so close "statistically", they accelerate identically to 100 mph, and stop side by side from sixty. Not bad for a car built 35 years earlier.
As I discoverd on my very first test drive in a Crossfire Automatic, the "feel" of the Crossfire is so reminiscent of the AMX (at least it was for me) it's hard for me to not think it's a reincarnated AMX.
Of course the handling isn't exactly the same what with the AMX not having IRS. But with identical tires on both cars, and sharing the very best shocks, I think the AMX would surprise more than a few unsuspecting XF drivers on a road course. I'd still bet on the Crossfire as the eventual winner, but it wouldn't be a blood bath for the AMX by any means.
Where the car really shines is it's manuverability, which is quite XF-ish
Still, I've never said they looked alike, only that the Crossfire seemed to sport a very similar roofline to another AMC. Which the Creator says was simply a coincidence.
Using Fords playbook on Corporate acquisitions in it's old TV ads, If they purchase another car company, they get to absorb that companies heritage and then later imply that it's there own. I once saw a Ford commercial not long after they aquired Jaguar in 1989, where they actually included an XKE .
That being said, not long after Chrysler purchased AMC (to get the Jeep) they also had the stones to show the ****** Jeep during WWII in one of their ads.
So Dave just going by that logic alone, there is an AMX skeleton in Chryslers closet.
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...es-2-cars.html