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Originally a flashy, limited-edition image leader, by 1961, the Plymouth Fury had become a bread-and-butter big car, the mainstay of the Plymouth line. Starting in 1962, it began a bizarre odyssey, going ...
Ford's ill-fated Edsel Division was born in 1957, part of an ambitious plan to match General Motors division for division. It died only two years later, but it remained the butt of jokes for decades, while ...
The Ford Capri, launched in 1969, was Europe's answer to the Ford Mustang, and one of the first fruits of Ford's newly unified European operations. This week, we look at the birth of "the car you always ...
Popular Mechanics once dubbed Chevrolet's peculiar hybrid of passenger car and pickup truck "the Cowboy Cadillac." Ford and Chevy prosaically described these crossovers as sedan pickups, while our Australian ...
5. The Lion in Winter: Ford's Flathead V8 and the Fall of Henry Ford
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The 1930s were full of fascinating experiments and exotic multicylinder Classics, but few cars of that era were more important or more influential than the humble Ford flathead V8. Cheap, pretty, and fast, ...
For most people, the words "Ford Mustang" evoke one of two things: the original 1964-66 icon of sixties Americana, or the boxy Reagan-era "5.0s" so beloved of amateur hot rodders. This week, we consider ...
This car, another of Lee Iacocca's many product planning brainstorms, was one of Ford's greatest successes in the late sixties and early seventies. A gaudy, overstuffed personal luxury car that critics ...
The old saw "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan" could well have been coined for this week's subject. Immediately embraced by everyone but sports car purists and Ford accountants, it remains ...
Even as the Ford Mustang was making its smashing debut in April 1964, Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division began work on its own "pony car," a stylish coupe that sought to bridge the gap between the Mustang ...
... the Ford Skyliner or the Jaguar XK120, but others may be puzzling to the casual observer. That is certainly the case with this week's subjects, which are thoroughly unexceptional in engineering and design, ...
... occasionally wished they could magically transform it into a regular coupe on days when the sun is too hot or the wind too cold. Fifty years ago, the Ford Motor Company offered a car that could do exactly ...
Although Lincoln's earliest cars were dismissed as homely, in the decades to come, it would spawn some of the most respected and memorable designs in the automotive industry. This week, we take a look ...
13. The 19th Century Man: The Rise and Fall of Henry Martyn Leland
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Unlike its Mercury division, Ford Motor Company's Lincoln brand was originally a separate company, founded in 1917 by Henry Martyn Leland, the founder of Cadillac. Henry Leland was one of the best and ...
14. The MacPherson Strut
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It's one of the most common suspension designs used on modern cars, found on everything from the lowliest Proton Savvy to the fearsome Porsche 911 Turbo. It's also frequently misunderstood and often misspelled. ...
It will not have escaped even the casual observer that the companies formerly known as the Big Three automakers -- GM, Ford, and Chrysler -- are in bad, bad shape. GM lost $37 billion in 2007. Ford's operating ...
In late 1959, Ford Motor Company released the smallest car it had sold in the U.S. since the 1930s: the Ford Falcon. The Falcon proved to be the most successful of Detroit's new breed of compact cars, ...
Like its younger sibling, the Ford Mustang, the Ford Thunderbird enjoys an impressive and loyal fan base whose adulation is a little out of proportion to the car's actual virtues. Admittedly, any model ...
The epoch-making success of the Ford Mustang and the Thunderbird tends to leave other Ford cars of its era looking like poor relations, but in the 1960s Ford really led the pack when it came to new product ...
19. Mercury Falling: The Mercury Breezeway Sedans
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What's a Mercury? For the past 30 years or so, the Mercury badge has generally meant a re-trimmed Ford product with slightly different styling and features, offered mostly to give Lincoln-Mercury dealers ...
... a little less ordinary. It may be a completely new model, like Ford's original two-seater Thunderbird or modern Ford GT, or it may be a specialized version of an existing product, like the original  ...