The Edsel Show

Not even the combined forces of Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong, and Bing Crosby could make this car look good...

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Edsel
• car
• ugly
• 50's

[batzoverbarstow]

This is the sexiest car of the decade and so underrated.

[SatchmoSings]

@VaderNES So Crown Vics, suck, ay?

They're used as taxicabs in New York City; the city makes you change them after five years; they go nearly a quarter million miles and can handily double that.

And I say that as someone who's family only bought GM cars.

[somewhatlongdong]

@micmac99 You are more likely to get struck by lightening.

[sneakers55]

@VaderNES The production process for the Edsel models left a good deal to be desired. Since they were sent down the line one-off all the assemblers had to notice the oddball was coming. And don't ever let them name a car after your father!

[bongomanfromdalou]

The greatest and saddest irony of all is that the Edsel was created to fill what was perceived to be a gap between the Ford and the Mercury (or, as it was first proposed, the Mercury and the Lincoln).

As we all know, the Mercury line joined the Edsel in the automotive graveyard in June of 2010. More ironic is that the Comet compact car introduced in the spring of 1960 was to be the 1961 Edsel (note that the tail lights on early Comets were 1960 Edsel tail lights placed at an angle!)...

[VaderNES]

@micmac99 Crown Vics suck, which is why I would hope that a new Edsel would be more like a Sable.

[micmac99]

@VaderNES I get nervous in Crown Vics...never been arrested but been in many Crown Vic taxicabs. I have no idea how many have been retrofitted with the rear heat shield so they don't blow up when violently rear-ended. I believe a patrolman in Dallas was killed that way.

[VaderNES]

@micmac99 I doubt that an Edsel version of the Cougar would be THAT bad.

But I do agree about the mid-'70s Edsels, mainly because mid-'70s Mercuries were ugly, boring, and bland.

And as far as an '09 Edsel, it would probably be more like a Sable with an Edsel grille, or even a Crown Vic.

[micmac99]

@VaderNES LOL, I can just see myself renting a 2009 Edsel Citation at Hertz. It would look like a Ford Fusion with a modern version of that grille. And Ford almost certainly would have tried to create a Mustang Edsel like they did with the Cougar. That thought makes me cringe. The thought of mid-1970's Edsels also make me cringe. Yuk! Think Hawaii Five-O or Barnaby Jones in a 1974 Edsel. Yuk!

[rhinogek]

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