Used Eagle Engine Models

Used Eagle Engine

Used Eagle Engine is in demand even today. However, the company has gone defunct long back. So who is Eagle and why they are still talked about in the U.S. auto realm? Simply put, they are a Chrysler brand, launching 8 cars and a concept car, in a decade of operations. Let’s get into a little bit of their history, from beginning to end, and look at their lineup of engines.

American Motors Corporation

American Motors Corporation (AMC) has a lot to do with the formation of Eagle. AMC began operations in 1954 and merged with Chrysler in 1987. It was comparatively a smaller player, competing with the Big 3 – General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. They are small considering their smaller budget and fewer resources. Besides, AMC itself is a merger of Hudson Motor Car Company and Nash-Kelvinator Corporation. With a deal of around $200 million, it was the largest corporate merger back then. The goal was to tackle the big 3, who held a certain oligopoly in the U.S. Auto Industry. AMC rose to heights with their flagship – Rambler, which biggest the third largest sales after Ford and Chevy. In addition, AMC concentrated on larger cars such as the Ambassadors, where there is a bigger profit margin. Despite gaining in sales figures, developing Ambassadors incurred huge costs for AMC, causing its decline.

From Ambassdor-induced decline, AMC geared up for a free fall. Declining working capital ruined liquidity levels and thereby affected the day-to-day finances. By 1967, AMC reported a loss of $12.6 million. Subsequently, AMC adjusted itself for muscular cars like AMX, as part of the cost-cutting measures. By 1970, AMC brought out Jeep to beef up their line-up, a bold and huge move at that time. Additionally, AMC also focused on compact cars, releasing the Hornet Platform, including Hornet, Spirit, Gremlin, and Concord. Also, they launched Matador and Pacer, which they stopped in the late 70s due to poor sales. In the 80s, AMC arrived at a partnership with Renault, with the latter gaining controlling interest. Interestingly, Renault sold their ownership to Chrysler later and later converted AMC to the Jeep-Eagle division of Chrysler.

Origins of Eagle

Chrysler established the Eagle brand in 1988 and it discontinued it in 1998. Chrysler made AMC disappear after the acquisition. Eagle brand didn’t sell any of their cars. Interestingly, all cars come from different places – three continents and four brands – and are rebadged as Eagle. Importantly, it’s a line of cars Chrysler inherited from AMC. Chrysler saw Eagle as a potent weapon to compete against Saturn from General Motors. Chryslers brought out AMC to make fortunes selling their Jeep cars, which they continue to do so, to date. Hence, they established the Eagle Brand to sell off other remaining AMC cars. Also, the name Eagle comes from the final car of AMC’s production – the AMC Eagle 4×4. In addition, there were contractual obligations with Renault, and therein, Chrysler had to sell off these cars, instead of scrapping them to focus on Jeep.

Chrysler discontinued many of the Renault vehicles and resumed producing rebadged AMC vehicles With fewer vehicles to produce, Chrysler enjoyed higher production capacity. Then, Eagle got its logo and Chrysler’s officials said, they wanted to establish this brand “among well-off customers”. They were effectively changing up AMC’s prices since they found fuel economy models not mixing well with the Jeeps. Chrysler wanted to produce cars that well-off Jeep owners would add to their collection. Hence, Eagle intends to catch wealthy buyers, who are rather into importing car brands like Mercedes and Audis. With continuous low sales in the 90s, Chrysler discontinued on Eagle brand by 1997. Also, they replaced the Eagle Vision, planned as a refresh for 1999, with the Chrysler 300M instead. Barring the mismanagement of the Eagle brand by Chrysler, Eagle featured top-quality engines and calibrations.

Let’s look into the specs of engines and models in the Eagle lineup.

Cars and Engines

Eagle Wagon: Around 1988, it was a continuation of the 1980 AMC Eagle. It had a 4.2 L inline 6 engine, with 110 hp and 210 lf-ft of torque. With just a single engine available, they offered two transmissions – a 5-speed manual and a 3-speed auto.

Eagle Medallion: Around in 1988-89, this car sported a 2.2L Inline 4 engine. It produced horsepower of 103 hp and torque of 124 lb-ft. It again came with a 3-speed automatic transmission or 5-speed manual transmission.

Eagle Premier: Premier came in two different variations – LX and ES. The former is a 2.5 L four-cylinder engine and the latter is a 3 L V6 engine. The former pumped up 111 horsepower and the latter pumped up 150 horsepower. Comparatively, torques were 142 lb-ft and 171 lb-ft respectively. Both of these engines were fitted with a 4-speed Auto transmission. Impressively, ES did a 0 to 60 in just 10.4 seconds.

Eagle Vista: Vista came with a 1.5 L straight four-cylinder engine and a 1.6L Turbocharged four-cylinder engine. The 1.5 L pumped out 66 horsepower and the 1.6 L did a 106. The Vista operated from 1988 to 1992.

Eagle Summit: Summit is a sub-compact sedan operating from 1889-1996. Produced by Mitsubishi, it came with a 1.5L four-cylinder with 81 hp in its first generation. Additionally, there was a 1.6 L engine producing 123 hp. Additionally, they also released a hatchback in the second-generation Summit. Four-speed manual and 3-speed auto transmissions are featured in the Hatchbacks. However, the sedans retained the 5-speed manual or 4-speed auto combination.

Eagle Talon: It’s another car from Mitsubishi, rebadged with the Eagle logo. The 2.0 L Mitsubishi engine pumped up a horsepower of 135 hp. But, thanks to the turbocharger, they later pumped up horsepower of up to 195 hp. The second generation Talons in 1995-98 produced horsepower over 200s.

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