Thursday, November 19, 2009
It was 50 years ago today
That Ford announced the end of the Edsel. Distinctive enough that people either loved it or hated it, it was a marketing disaster. As this promo may indicate, the beancounters must have made a full scale assault, with bayonets fixed, on the executive offices to stop this effulgence of the automakers art. 18 models and 90 color combinations! Nowadays you are lucky to get 3 models with 7 colors, including 3 shades of grey and 3 shades of brown.
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