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“The vehicle was a revision of an AMC concept called the Cavalier…”

Project Europa

ne part of the automobile business that American Motors focused a lot of attention on was the export and overseas market. Export business is when you ship a car, either assembled or CKD (completely knocked down, i.e., a kit of parts) to markets outside the U.S. CKD units are assembled in what are known as “screwdriver plants”—factories where the car overseas, producing most parts itself and buying the rest from local suppliers or the U.S. parent.

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