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Latest archived mark · 1909

Abbott-Detroit

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Latest archived mark · 1969

AMC

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What we compare	Abbott-Detroit	AMC
Country in archive	United States	United States
Founded	1909	May 1, 1954
Founder	Abbott Motor Company	George W. Mason
Headquarters	Detroit, Michigan, United States	Southfield, Michigan, United States
Name origin	The name pairs Abbott, the name of the Abbott Motor Company, with Detroit, the city where the cars were built. The sources consulted do not say who Abbott was, so the exact origin of the surname is not confirmed here. Naming a car after both a maker and a home city was common among early automobile builders.	American Motors Corporation took its name directly from its own description: a newly combined, all-American automaker formed on May 1, 1954, when Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Company merged. Unlike brands named for a founder's surname, "American Motors" was a descriptive, patriotic corporate name chosen for the merged company itself, and "AMC" is simply the initials the public and the company came to use for it. No more elaborate origin story for the specific wording appears to be documented.
Selected models	Fore Door Roadster, Battleship Roadster, Model F, Model L, Model K	Rambler, AMX, Javelin, Gremlin, Pacer, Eagle
Earliest archived brand logo	1909	1954
Latest archived logo	1909	1969
Archived logo assets	1	3

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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