AMC Built an Entire Car Around an Engine That Never Existed shorts car automobile [MWeOcpBeaMR]
AMC designed the Pacer around a Wankel rotary engine it planned to buy from General Motors. GM cancelled its rotary program in 1974, leaving AMC to fit its existing inline six instead, which required a driveshaft tunnel and a wider body. The Pacer ended up wider than a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. SOURCE: