With its extreme fastback styling, the Matador was one of the most striking cars of the era. It sold briskly its first year on the market but its popularity fell off sharply as its design aged and the 1973 oil crisis took its toll. Strapped for cash, AMC lacked the resources to redesign it, and the Matador disappeared in 1978, nine years before AMC itself.
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