American Motors Corporation
In January 1954, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation began acquisition of the Hudson Motor Car Company (in what was called a merger). The new corporation would be called American Motors Corporation. (An earlier corporation with the same name, co-founded by Louis Chevrolet, had existed in New Jersey from 1916 through 1922 before merging into the Bessemer–American Motors Corporation.)
Automotive industry in New Zealand
New Zealand's first Toyota Corollas were assembled by Campbell Motor Industries at Thames in April 1968 along with a number of vehicles made by American Motors Corporation (AMC) from the United States. American Motors was an aggregation of almost all surviving US brands outside Detroit's Big Three. AMC vehicles assembled included Rambler Classic, Rebel, and Jeep. Although the Rambler brand was officially dropped by AMC from 1968, the marque was continued in New Zealand, Australia and other export markets of AMC during the 1970s. CMI did not continue with assembly of the Rebel's 1971 replacement, the AMC Matador but assembled the 1970 Rebel for one more year in 1971.