Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "Did You Know? Renault Rambler: An American in Paris!" video.

  1. Same in Australia. Rambler being a nearly affordable, thanks to local assembly compared to high tariff imports, American luxury car with higher power than most initially. Preferred as a police pursuit car by New South Wales Police. Upmarket locally sourced trim mostly.
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  2. Rambler did not do the assembly in Australia. It was Australian Motor Industries (AMI) at their Port Melbourne assembly factory with some local content input. Australian Motor Industries (AMI) were , at that time, the only Australian owned car company and you could buy shares in them on the Australian stock exchange , unlike Holden , Ford , Chrysler, BMC and the rest. Since AMC was so close to sounding like AMI the AMC make name did not get used in Australia. Also since it took a while to establish the Rambler name as a prestige car for the Australian market. Hence even the Javelin and AMX were the Rambler Javelin and Rambler AMX car in Australia. Australian Motor Industries (AMI) also assembled lots of other makes starting with the Standard Triumph and Ferguson range. Later as well as Standards and Triumph cars they assemble led the Mercedes Benz 220 fintail range and then being the first to assemble Toyotas outside Japan. Toyota liked what AMI produced so much that they bought the company and expanded full production to Altona North. In that process Toyota became the largest Australian exporter of Australian made cars.
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  3. And the Chrysler Simca Vedette with a Ford V8. But only a tiny pre war side valve design of about 2.3 litres and something like 80 HP.
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  4. G'day Ed. Was hoping you would expand a bit on Rambler assembly by Australian Motor Industries (AMI) at their Port Melbourne assembly factory with some local content input. Australian Motor Industries (AMI) were , at that time, the only Australian owned car company, and so you could buy shares in them on the Australian stock exchange , unlike Holden , Ford , Chrysler, BMC and the rest making cars in Australia. Since AMC was so close to sounding like AMI, the AMC make name did not get used in Australia. Also since it took a while to establish the Rambler name as a prestige car, like France, for the Australian market. Hence even the Javelin and AMX were the Rambler Javelin and the Rambler AMX car in Australia. Australian Motor Industries (AMI) also assembled lots of other makes starting with the Standard Triumph and Ferguson range. Later as well as Standards and Triumph cars they assembled the Mercedes Benz 220 fintail range and then being the first to assemble Toyotas outside Japan. Toyota liked what AMI produced so much that they bought the company and expanded full production to Altona North, phasing out other makes earlier. In that process Toyota became the largest Australian exporter of Australian made cars.
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  5. They had earlier models too. From about 1964.
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  6.  @ovekarlsson777  I think that was the main reason for his strong DS preference.
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