The Ford Edsel was launched in 1958 with grand expectations but quickly became a symbol of failure in the automotive industry ...

The 1958 Edsel Corsair was supposed to be Ford’s bold new middle-class status symbol, a car that would slot neatly between humble family sedans and aspirational luxury cruisers. Instead, it became a ...

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Introduced in 1958 to compete against Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Dodge, and DeSoto, the Edsel division was discontinued only three years later to become one of the biggest commercial flops of the ...

The Henry Ford Museum's new "Driving America" exhibit displays a 1957 DeSoto Fireflite four-door hardtop, which I figured would make a good subject for this column. Four-door hardtops have all the ...

Despite its past, the Edsel has new life as a collector's item. The 1958 Ford Edsel was supposed to be revolutionary. Caught up in a marketing frenzy, Ford made the terrible decision to debut 18 ...

The late 1950s gave us some of the greatest American cars ever built. Whether we're talking about the Chevrolet Corvette, the Chrysler 300, or the Ford Fairlane Skyliner, they're all prized ...

Don't look now, but this 1958 Edsel Ranger, built by Bobby Alloway and the Alloway's Hot Rod Shop team, isMagazine's 2019 Street Rod of the Year. The puzzled looks on people's faces when Kathy Lange's ...

1958The frost white and turquoise 1958 Edsel Citation convertible was loaded with options and turned heads when it hit the streets of Vancouver. There was no other car that looked like this long and ...

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 ...

[This story first appeared in the premier issue of MotorTrend Classic in 2005] Elvis still weighted under 200 pounds. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" was on its way to becoming the year's top-grossing ...