High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Hudson Jet was a compact automobile produced by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan during the 1953 and 1954 model years. The Jet was Hudson`s response to the popular Nash Rambler, and Hudson, with its limited financial resources, chose to pursue a compact instead of refurbishing its line of full-size cars. However the Jet failed to capture buyers as the Rambler had for Nash. Consequently Hudson was forced to merge with Nash-Kelvinator (forming American Motors Corporation) because of the losses created by the Jet project and the falling sales of its senior line.