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November 19, 1959 – Ford announces the end of Edsel
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Too much money. Too much hype. Too much of the same old thing. Designed to ride alongside Mercury between Ford and its luxurious Lincoln line, Edsel
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On this day in 1986 Georges Besse, the 58-year-old CEO of French automaker Renault, was gunned down just steps from
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