[3] In 1962, Meyers was appointed director of purchasing for American Motors Corporation in Detroit, where he assumed a succession of executive roles.
[11] While Meyers was AMC's top product man, he was "given considerable, and justifiable, credit for pushing the AMX/3 project from inception through the design and prototype stages into testing.
[15] At the time, Meyers was 49 years old and became the youngest top executive in the automobile industry, bringing a wealth of manufacturing experience.
[5] "The company was looking for a lot more than a steady hand on the tiller – it was looking for a savior" but Meyers disagreed and argued that the company could survive and remain a factor in the automobile industry by abandoning its policy of head-on competition and instead focusing on and revamping its four-wheel-drive vehicles, a market segment left untended by the large automakers, and by acquiring advanced technology.
[16] For fiscal 1977, AMC's profits more than doubled compared to the previous year to a record $83.9 million on sales of $3.1 billion.
[17] Meyers described AMC's strategy as a "three-legged stool" of small cars, Jeeps, and steady government and military contracts.
[17] By 1979, the automaker's management team headed by Meyers, ... "sharply cut back its money-losing car operations ...
The perennially ailing baby of the auto industry suddenly looks healthy, and its new management team has a clear design for the future.
[19] Because he engineered the deal with Renault, Meyers received the Cross of Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1981 for "strengthening the fabric of Franco-American relations.
[25] Meyers was the Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Business at Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration.