# Ford Motor Co.: "Edsel"=Big Loser; "Mustang"=Big Winner, Why?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 14, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ford-motor-co-edsel-big-loser-mustang-big-winner-why/615753 "2012-03-14T17:07:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ford-motor-co-edsel-big-loser-mustang-big-winner-why/615753/21 "2012-03-15T11:56:05Z")

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Trivium: when I visited it a few years ago, there was an Edsel in the Ho Chi Minh museum in Hanoi.

It is labelled “The Failure of American Capitalism”.

Snerk.

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