In the late 1940s, Ford Motor Company concluded that a mid-priced automobile void hindered sales and pushed a significant portion of the market into a mass migration to other manufacturers. Long story ...
A handsome and hard-punching newcomer will officially join the Ford family of automobiles Tuesday. The Edsel, packing 300-plus horsepower in either of two engines, is expected to deliver some telling ...
Named after Henry Ford's son, the Edsel division was founded in late 1956. It was FoMoCo's fourth brand at the time, and it was supposed to help the company gain additional market share from General ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Apparently, the FoMoCo marketing team was overly optimistic about the new Edsel line as they penned the brochure for 1959 ...
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Each of the thousands of classic cars that traveled to South Mississippi for Cruisin’ the Coast has a unique story. The journey for some was more troubled than others. For the ...
Edsel Ford was all about form. Henry Ford cared only for function. Henry, the practical, conservative inventor who believed his Model T was all the car anyone from farmhand to millionaire would ever ...
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 included ...