Edsel Roundup

Edsel
Roundup
Production period:	1958
Class :	upper middle class
Body versions :	Station wagon
Engines:	Otto engine : ; 5.9 liters (223 kW)
Length:	5217 mm
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase :
Empty weight :	1748 kg

Edsel Roundup station wagon 3 doors (1958)

The Edsel Roundup was a station wagon manufactured by the Ford Motor Company under the brand name Edsel in the 1958 model year . Like its sister models Bermuda and Villager , the Roundup was created on the Ford chassis with a 2946 mm wheelbase. These cars had most of the sheet metal parts in common with the Ford station wagons.

history

The Roundup was the most simply equipped Edsel station wagon and could only be purchased in 1958. The equipment consisted of 6 seats and 3 doors. The interior included black rubber floor mats, armrests, front and rear ashtrays, interior lighting and exit lights, and a white vinyl headliner. The basic equipment included a split backrest on the front bench, which allowed rear seat passengers to get on. Instead of crank windows, there were sliding windows at the rear in the Roundup.

To distinguish it from the Ford Ranch Wagon , from which it was derived, the Roundup received the typical Edsel front mask and the rear lights in boomerang shape . The shape of these taillights was more of a problem because the left direction indicator appeared from a distance as an arrow pointing to the right - and vice versa.

All Edsel station wagons had the engine of the Ranger , a V8 with 5,915 cm³ displacement, which made 303 bhp (223 kW) and was connected to a manual three-speed gearbox as standard. However, buyers could also order a three-stage automatic with a selector lever on the steering column, or the heavily advertised but problematic Teletouch automatic with selector buttons in the steering wheel hub.

Like the other cars of the brand, the Roundup was a marketing flop in the fall of 1957, despite a great presentation. Only 963 copies were made in 1958. This failure can be attributed to the dwindling popularity of 3-door station wagons in the USA and the lack of customer interest in Edsel vehicles.

In the following year, the Roundup and the luxurious Bermuda had already disappeared from the model range; the middle model Villager was the only Edsel station wagon from this point on.

Web links

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Duetsch, Jan: The Edsel and Corporate Responsibility , Yale University (1976), ISBN 0-300-01950-5
Gunnell, John (Ed.): The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975 , Krause Publications, Iola (1987), ISBN 0-87341-096-3
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