Showing posts with label 1974. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1974. Show all posts

Monday, April 7, 2025

1974 Mazda REPU Pick Up Hot Wheels 1:64











EE.UU. es un mercado complejo, un mercado que poco o nada tiene que ver con Europa o Japón, y en donde las pick-up son las reinas absolutas, tanto a nivel de ventas como popularidad. Ser un fabricante extranjero y pretender competir contra las pick-up nacionales no es fácil, pero corría el año 1974 cuando Mazda se aventuró en un proyecto único – casi imposible – en el que convenció a muchos americanos para hacerse con su peculiar pick-up bautizada como Mazda REPU en honor al uso de un motor rotativo.
Tu primera pregunta será el porqué de semejante nombre, y la respuesta no es otra que la de que Mazda bautizó a su pick-up como Mazda Rotary Engine Pick-Up. Para qué andarse con nombres mitológicos o metáforas si su principal característica constructiva servía como mejor resumen. La idea de Mazda era y sigue siendo una locura, pero no por ello se negaron a intentarlo. En plena ebullición de las pick-up compactas, modelos que buscaban ofrecer menores consumos y menores precios que las Ford F-150 y similares, Mazda apostó por un concepto revolucionario donde una pick-up con motor rotativo buscaría competir contra los sedientos V6 y V8 gracias a un peso mínimo.
Mazda, al igual que Datsun, Isuzu o Toyota por aquellos entonces, dominaban a principios de los años ’70 un nicho de mercado de gran potencial: las pick-up compactas. Ni a Ford ni a General Motors se les había ocurrido escalar el modelo de pick-up, un error del que se dieron cuenta a finales de los ’60 cuando se percataron de que Datsun y Toyota ya eran dueñas de un mercado creado de la nada por Datsun en 1959. Todas estas pick-up era sorprendentemente similares entre ellas: motores de cuatro cilindros, gran capacidad de carga, potencias moderadas y mínima complejidad técnica. Dicen los entendidos de por aquellos años que sólo el modelo Datsun consiguió mejores ventas gracias a contar con un diseño más agraciado.
Pero Mazda quiso dar un paso al frente y distinguirse de sus coetáneas apostando por su peculiar motor rotativo. La idea de Mazda era ofrecer un mejor rendimiento, menor complejidad y una capacidad de carga líder. La Mazda REPU instaló un motor rotativo con 1,3 litros de cilindrada, 2 rotores y aspiración atmosférica capaz de rendir 110 CV a 6.000 rpm. Gracias al uso de un motor rotativo, la pick-up de Mazda decía ofrecer unas cifras de potencia y consumo muy similares a las de las pick-up convencionales, consiguiendo además una capacidad de carga muy buena con 635 kilogramos. Sobre el papel todo parecían ventajas.

Thursday, July 14, 2022

1974 AMC Gremlin X 1:24 Motormax Fresh Cherries













From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The AMC Gremlin (also American Motors Gremlin) is a subcompact automobile introduced in 1970, manufactured and marketed in a single, two-door body style (1970–1978) by American Motors Corporation (AMC), as well as in Mexico (1974–1978) by AMC's Vehículos Automotores Mexicanos (VAM) subsidiary.

Using a shortened Hornet platform and bodywork with a pronounced kammback tail, the Gremlin was classified as an economy car and competed with the Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto, as well as imported cars including the Volkswagen Beetle and Toyota Corolla. The small domestic automaker marketed the Gremlin as "the first American-built import."

The Gremlin reached a total production of 671,475 over a single generation—and was superseded by a restyled and revised variant, the AMC Spirit.
1974:
The Arab Oil Embargo of October 1973 came just as the 1974 model year began. AMC improved the Gremlin's back seat. A deeper front fascia made the car appear longer. A larger front bumper was mounted on self-restoring telescoping gas and oil cylinders. Unlike most other designs, the Gremlin did not use a filler panel between the bumper and body. A stronger rear bumper was set lower—front and rear passenger car bumpers were now required by NHTSA to have uniform heights, take angle impacts, and sustain 5-mile-per-hour (8 km/h) impacts with no damage. The rear fascia was modified slightly to blend with the design changes. The Gremlin X stripe pattern was given a "hockey stick" look for 1974: the stripes followed the window line as it tapered aft, and swept up now to include four diagonal lines on the wide C-pillar. A new typeface for nameplates was used by AMC for 1974, including on the Gremlin. With the car's 1974 model year extended into November to delay the need to install catalytic converters required by United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2004 regulations starting with 1975 models, AMC sold 171,128 1974 Gremlins, an increase of nearly 40% over 1973 and 130% over 1971.

Thursday, March 28, 2019

1974 Dodge Charger Hot Wheels 1:64









  • 1974 Dodge Charger
  • Debut Series General Mills Promotion
  • Produced 2004 - Present
  • Designer Unknown

Sunday, January 28, 2018

1974 Chevrolet SS Opala Hot Wheels 1:64










 The Chevrolet SS is a reproduction of the Chevrolet Opala, a mid-size car sold under the Chevrolet brand in South America. The Hot Wheels version is of the 1974 Opala.

  • Chevrolet SS
  • Debut Series 2012 New Models
  • Produced 2012 - Present
  • Designer Phil Riehlman
  • Number V5308

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

1974 AMC Gremlin X 1:25 Mini-Muscle Car










From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The AMC Gremlin (also American Motors Gremlin) is a subcompact automobile introduced in 1970, manufactured and marketed in a single, two-door body style (1970–1978) by American Motors Corporation (AMC), as well as in Mexico (1974–1983) by AMC's Vehículos Automotores Mexicanos (VAM) subsidiary.
Using a shortened Hornet platform and bodywork with a pronounced kammback tail, the Gremlin was classified as an economy car and competed with the Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto, as well as imported cars including the Volkswagen Beetle and Toyota Corolla. The small domestic automaker marketed the Gremlin as "the first American-built import."
The Gremlin reached a total production of 671,475 over a single generation. It was superseded by a restyled and revised variant, the AMC Spirit produced from 1979 through 1983. This was long after the retirement of the Ford Pinto that suffered from stories about exploding gas tanks, as well as the Chevrolet Vega with its rusting bodies and durability problems with its aluminum engine.