For the model year 1980, a total of 25,807 AMC Eagle station wagons were made, but there were a bunch of these unique wagons. Not many know this, but a diesel engine powered less than ten Eagles.

A perfect example of this unusual revolutionary situation occurring is the story of the AMC Eagle, the 1980s pioneer of the AWD off-road crossovers. In the early 1980s, AMC (American Motors ...