A 1986 American Motors Eagle four-door sedan, found in a Colorado wrecking yard.
The American Motors Corporation's Eagle was the first production car sold in the United States with what we'd now describe as a true all-wheel-drive system, beating Audi's Quattro-equipped cars to showrooms. During the Eagle's run through the 1980 through 1988 model years, the wagon version was by far the biggest seller and nearly all the discarded examples I find during my junkyard travels are wagons.
Even though American Motors had owned Jeep for nearly a decade when it began design work on the Eagle, the drivetrain in this car isn't just lifted straight across from the Jeep parts bin. Of course, Audi would sell you a 4000CS Quattro sedan with no-driver-brains-required AWD that year for $17,800 , and Volkswagen added the Syncro-equipped Quantum for the following year. The 1986 Eagle sedan had an MSRP of just $10,719, or $30,716 after inflation.
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