The Edsel was very much part of why people in this country started to buy cars from other countries. Edsel, Mercury of the sixties...et. al. were Fords with different sheet metal and bumpers. Olds, Pontiac and others are gone because taking a Chevy frame and chassis because different "looks" do not a different car make. Anti trust laws not being enforced created.,..the "big" three....too bad, Packard and others were great for their time...Packard was referred to as "The Car of Kings".
Watch the film Tucker, and name the best cars in the world...yup, most are not made in this country. It is not because of bad workers or bad designers...it is corporations considering you to be an idiot, and yes, many companies base much of what they do because they think you're and idiot.
Simple product, the bread you eat. The grain from wheat has bran and germ...and they can take those parts out and sell most Americans "white" bread with very little nutritional value.....kind of the Homer Simpson version of bread. Kind of like the person at the sandwich shop that says "would you like that on white or Wheat"?...well they are both made from Wheat...just one has had the best parts removed....dah...
But P.T. Barnum realized you could get people to part with their money to see a woman with a beard or one under 2 foot tall.....boy, money well spent. Perhaps "white" bread was his idea?
The early Pontiac and Olds I had as a youth had their own engine, by the time those brands were dead they all had Chevy frames and drive trains.....not very much a Pontiac or an Olds.
