{"id":10957,"date":"2019-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studebaker.priemerhosting.com\/the-edsel-fords-famous-failure\/"},"modified":"2019-10-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T00:00:00","slug":"the-edsel-fords-famous-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studebakermuseum.org\/the-edsel-fords-famous-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Edsel: Ford\u2019s Famous Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presented by Matt Anderson,\u00a0Curator of Transportation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehenryford.org\/\">The Henry Ford Museum<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"outlook-data-detector:\/\/10\">Wednesday, October 16, 2019, at 1:30pm<\/a> in the Wiekamp Auditorium<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Introduced with much fanfare in the fall of 1957, the Edsel was greeted by car buyers with a collective shrug. Was it the bad economy, was it poor marketing, or was it that one-of-a-kind grille? Whatever the cause, the Edsel disappeared after just three model years and $250 million in fruitless development costs. Join Matt Anderson, Curator of Transportation at The Henry Ford Museum as we explore the history of one of the world\u2019s greatest marketing failures.<\/p>\n<p><em>$2 admission \/ FREE to Studebaker National Museum members, refreshments to follow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i> Image courtesy of the Collections of The Henry Ford<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented by Matt Anderson,\u00a0Curator of Transportation at The Henry Ford Museum Wednesday, October 16, 2019, at 1:30pm in the Wiekamp Auditorium Introduced with much fanfare in the fall of 1957, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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