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Budd XR-400
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The XR-400 wouldn’t have ‘saved’ AMC but it pointed in a useful direction

July 22, 2026 Steve 6

(EXPANDED FROM 7/7/2023) A while back Stéphane Dumas quite rightly noted that another alternative to the 1964 Rambler Tarpon concept car was the XR-400. This was a 2+2 convertible proposed to American Motors in 1962 […]

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