Ford Edsel

IM GOING TO BUY ME AN Edsel

Hate to be pedantic but it's Edsel and not Ford Edsel, Edsel was a seperate division of Ford. It would be like saying you own a 'Chevrolet Buick', or 'Dodge Plymouth'Edsel failed for many reasons, launched in a recession, badly built, a much hyped car that turned out to be fairly normal, bad choice of name as few people had heard of Edsel (he was Henry Ford's son) and obviously that grille didn't help, especially when compared to a certain part of female anatomy...

I just think the Edsels are so beautiful. The chrome is so over the top. I'd just love one of these cars.

Mercury sucking a lemon. That was the 1958 typical joke about them. Nothing wrong with an Edsel that a 605 crate motor wouldn't fix right up.

Or just find a 430--This was a option-

i think the car was such a flip-flop becase ppl thoght it was ugly it wasant realiabul but i think its not ugly at al

Ford borrowed rather heavily from the Packard Predictor for these designs.Funny though,for Packard Edsel sales numbers would have been considered a success.

Personally, i think the Edsel is totally awesome. The style is just way out there. It's futuristic, yet classic. I don't like the push-button shifting though; hahah, I only like driving cars with the shifter on the steering column, i hate the floor shifter. That push-button thing would be waaaay to weird for me.

One of the largest reasons aside from the unusual oval grill (vaginal to some folks), a economic recession was in full swing between 1957 and '58 in the USA. The use of the name "Edsel" (the name of the late former president of Ford Motor and son of founder Henry Ford) was dull and thudding to the ear...

...It is also argued that Ford for the first time relied completely on market research for the style and feel of the car, instead of the gut-feelings of the designers and executives as had made Ford models successful in prior model years.