Edsel has always been a controversial model, but despite the low production numbers, it remains a desirable nameplate today ...

50's TV: Edsel Commercial (1957) by MattTheSaiyan on YouTube Named for Henry Ford’s son, who had died years before at the age of 49, the Edsel was the Ford company’s bid to expand market share.

SAN LEANDRO — Edsel Henry Ford has embarked on what is turning out to be quite the daunting task: finding someone to take one of his four Edsels off his hands. Ford — an 81-year-old retired ...

The Ford Edsel is often regarded as one of the most notorious failures in the history of the American automobile industry. A project that cost Ford hundreds of millions of dollars and took years to ...

Ford Edsel History - Misunderstood. The plight of the Edsel, ... the corporate answer was to cut the number of models for the '59 lineup. Edsel was folded in with Mercury and Lincoln on January 14 ...

50 years later, driving passion for Edsel lives on. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 57°F. Thursday, May 29th 2025 Digital Replica Edition. Home Page. News. Latest Headlines; ...

The 1958 Ford Edsel was Ford's worst marketing disaster, Check it out in the May 2008 issue of Car Craft Magazine or at carcraft.com.

That October day, Bovenschen drove up not in his signature blue Ford sedan but his red 1959 Ford Edsel Ranger.The often-maligned Edsel was shining in the sun that day, holding its own in a sea of ...

It took nearly a year after this last submission for Young to tells Moore that Ford ended up choosing “Edsel.” (In total, Ford sourced more than ... 59 p.m. PT. Apply today. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. ...

If Edsel were to hypothetically make a comeback, it would have to reinvent itself radically; the niche it formerly occupied (mid-priced, sitting in between Ford and Lincoln) was already ...

Ford Motor Co.’s Edsel remains one of the biggest flops in corporate history. But no one knew that in late summer 1957, when the company introduced its new model with animated hoopla that ...

The Edsel was supposed to be the car of the future, Ford's gambit to capture the mid-tier auto market in the late '50s. It turned out to be their biggest flop.