Fact of the day: the Ford Edsel ("a 1950s flop so notorious that it’s taught in business schools to this day") outsold the Cybertruck 2:1, "in a country with half the population."
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/ford-introduces-edsel
(h/t Luke Savage in the American Prospect, https://prospect.org/2026/01/30/teslas-wile-e-coyote-moment-is-here/)
@pluralistic And that was during the era where GM had about 50% market share. So for Ford to outsell makes it all the more notable. h/t Alex Taylor automotive journalist and author of the book
Sixty to Zero:
An Inside Look at the Collapse of General Motors--and the Detroit Auto Industry.
Which covers about half or so of the book to GM throughout and with other parts of of the book to all of the big three for those days til around 2008.
@pluralistic And that was during the era where GM had about 50% market share. So for Ford to outsell makes it all the more notable. h/t Alex Taylor automotive journalist and author of the book
Sixty to Zero:
An Inside Look at the Collapse of General Motors--and the Detroit Auto Industry.
Which covers about half or so of the book to GM throughout and with other parts of of the book to all of the big three for those days.
