Editing AMC Gremlin (section)

=== Australia ===
[[File:1971 AMI Rambler Gremlin AnnMD openal.jpg|thumb|left|One-off Australian Gremlin, first featured at the 1970 Sydney Motor Show]]
[[File:1971 AMI Rambler Gremlin AnnMD driver.jpg|thumb|right|Badged as a "Rambler" this test car was converted from LHD to RHD for evaluation purposes.]]

AMC exported a fully built Gremlin to its Australian partner, [[Australian Motor Industries]] (AMI) of Port Melbourne, Victoria in 1970 for evaluation purposes.<ref name="Boomerang">{{cite web|url= http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/10/12/boomerang-the-only-gremlin-exported-to-australia-returns-to-the-united-states/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111015032101/http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/10/12/boomerang-the-only-gremlin-exported-to-australia-returns-to-the-united-states/ |url-status= usurped |archive-date= October 15, 2011 |first=Daniel |last=Strohl |title=Boomerang: The only Gremlin exported to Australia returns to the United States |date=October 12, 2011 |publisher=Hemmings Motor News |access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref> (AMI assembled and marketed other AMC models since 1961.) The evaluation model was painted in AMC's "Big Bad Orange" and was converted from left-hand drive to right-hand drive by Sydney Toyota dealer Bill Buckle Pty Ltd. The car featured AMC's {{convert|232|CID|L|1|abbr=on}} six-cylinder engine and a three-speed manual transmission.<ref name="Wheels"/> The car was presented at the 1970 [[Australian International Motor Show|Sydney Motor Show]] to gauge interest and test the market.

The car was featured on the front cover of the November 1970 issue of Australia's top motoring magazine, [[Wheels (magazine)|''Wheels'']] magazine.<ref name="Wheels">{{cite web|url=https://www.motorbookworld.com.au/wheels-1970-11-vg-pacer-lc-torana-xu-1-gtr-x-xw-falcon-gtho-2.html |title=Wheels magazine (Australia) |website=motorbookworld.com.au |date=November 1970 |access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref> The magazine's review pointed to the likelihood that the "local content" requirements would force the price up to that of the high-priced, Australian-assembled Hornet, and probably price the car out of the market.<ref name="Wheels"/>

For marketing purposes, it was branded as a "Rambler Gremlin" in keeping with the use of the Rambler marque for all AMC vehicles sold in Australia despite that Rambler as a brand was retired in the United States at the end of the 1969 model year.<ref name="Boomerang"/> However, no Gremlin models were put into production in Australia.

Right-hand-drive Gremlins were imported into Australia by U.S. [[Soldier|servicemen]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.garageofawesome.com.au/index.php/goa-rants/gleaned/147-gleaned-1973-rambler-gremlin |title=Gleaned - 1973 AMC Gremlin |publisher=Garage of Awesome |location=Australia |date=February 1, 2013 |access-date=June 27, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130408222900/http://garageofawesome.com.au/index.php/goa-rants/gleaned/147-gleaned-1973-rambler-gremlin |archive-date=April 8, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>