Take pity on the poor Edsel. Though it has gone down in automotive history as one of the worst marketing disasters of all time, Ford's original plan was to slot the new $250 million Edsel division ...
Station wagons were status symbols once. They commanded higher prices than sedans, and the faux-wood paneling of the '50s, '60s, and '70s wagons grew out of the original wood-bodied wagons of the '30s ...
The 1958 Edsel Corsair arrived with the weight of an entire industry’s expectations on its fins. In the late 1950s, Detroit was convinced that bigger, flashier and more segmented lineups would keep ...
For our 60th anniversary month, let's check out a two-page-spread magazine advertisement for the kind of cars that made great tow vehicles for your road-race Triumph TR3 or salt-flat belly tanker in ...
Either love it or laugh at it — but gear up for a whole lotta Edsel sightings this weekend in metro Detroit. The car that made Ford Motor the butt of industry jokes in the late 1950s has arrived en ...