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My gramma tradewr a 1954 New Yorker Coupe for a 1958 Belvedere..With the new torsion bar suspension the car virtually leapt. NO SQUAT!

Some of the most beautiful grills found on cars of the past are vertical !

Lincoln much better looking car, that Imperial, is just down right ugly

The Plymouth is superior, even though it is considered a lower-line brand.

IMO, the Oldsmobile is a much better looking car

The steering wheel on the Plymouth is right in your view of sight

IMO, I prefer the Edsel

Both junks but I would drive either to be gawked at...

I've owned both. I give the nod to Edsel for only one reason: Mopar tragically had the WORST brakes in the industry.

DeS 1955 sales 115,000... Buick 1955 sales 735,000... I guess not many buyers previewed this. Actually both were handsome and competent cars in 1955

As a GM guy I'd say the Citation was better looking and a Pacer with E475 would take out a Fury. Both suffered QC issues, Chrysler Corp. QC had deteriorated and Edsel had first year production problems

Edsel competed against DESOTO, not Plymouth. Plymouth was the entry level vehicle that competed against Ford. Not even a comparison. .

All 1958s looked good with those double headlights.

History showed that both cars suffered a double whammy. The '58 Plymouth looked better than the 1957, in my opinion--but the build quality of the 1957 Chrysler lineup on all price levels was such that word-of-mouth killed many potential 1958 Plymouth sales. And I remember seeing replacement patch panels for 1957-58 Chrysler cars advertised in auto body trade magazines as early as the first months of 1958. And Edsel suffered the same build quality in the early '58 models, and considering Ford had made much of Edsel being totally new and thoroughly tested before the first car was placed on sale, that same of word-of-mouth discouraged potential Edsel customers (if the styling didn't turn them off)

Vs Delorean please

My money's on Christine.

With the exception of the electric shifter mechanism, the Edsel was a mechanically more reliable car than the Plymouth. Plymouth sold seven times as many cars in 1958 as Edsel, (but that includes police and taxi models that Edsel didn't cater to) yet you can find '58 Edsels just as easily as '58 Plymouths. The survival rate would seem much higher.

1:23 Edsel meets Christine!! 😮😮😱😱

2:17. Say hello to the lips of Deloris.

I would like one of each, please, and both with factory air conditioning. Actually, I would like a 58 Desoto Adventurer.

I can find running, fairly original Edsels, for sale, quite often. Those Plymouths, of the same time period, are very hard to find. Mostly because they rusted away, early on. The 1958 Ranger/Pacer had a 303 HP FE engine, standard. What was the standard engine in the Plymouth, a flat head six, or 318? You had to order a super rare 2x4 barrel, 305 HP, 350 B block, to beat the Edsel.

Why would you compare a Plymouth with an Edsel? The Plymouth was a low price car and the Edsel was more midrange. All things considered.

As the owner of an Edsel I found this interesting.

I'll take the Edsel

Even as a kid, when these were new, I thought, Wow! about both, but for different reasons. The Edsel is just so different that it is kool, and the 57 Plymouth was so bad quality, I probably would have been afraid to trust the 58. I think the Edsel Pacer would have been for me, and if I had Oldsmobile money, a Corsair or Citation. Those were the big Mercury-based Edsels.

Face it they were both ugly as hell.

Olds had 12 volt electrical system, DeSoto not until 1956.

I'm sold! I'll take a red two door please!

Love the Plymouth!

4:07 Is it my imagination or does the Edsel look like it's had some fender benders and the repairs were done rather shoddily? Note the wrinkle toward the rear of the front wheel-well, the highlight from the A-pillar at the front door sort of fades below the color cove, and what's going on behind the parking light below the _Ranger_ script? and the paint appears to be faded already, not a good look for an all-new marque.

too bad chrysler's forward look cars didn't run as well as they looked. like the way they fess up to comparing low end model edsel to high end plymouth.

I have a 58 Edsel Corsair. It's a pretty iconic car. But it is not a particularly good driving car. My 65 Galaxie is much more comfortable to take on long drives

all this hype by plymouth...yet i noticed they skipped over the point of rear view mirror ....plymouth is mounted on the dash in a stupid position ..what where they thinking....i'll take the edsel

Fun! Thanks.

Pontiac more than any other division suffered from Roger Smith-era GM's unwillingness to spend the cost-per-unit to make a "premium" car feel nice. He was willing to throw billions away on reorgs and all-at-once robotization since in theory that would "scale" but not on material quality. It was the opposite of "put the money where the customer can see it", and it took GM decades to recover.

Chryco had a LOT of problems with the '57s and buying a '58 would've been a leap of faith that they had worked out the first-year bugs.

The front on view alone of the Ford product convinces me. Gaze upon the ugliness. The longer you look the more you’ll want the Plymouth. 😂😂😂

I love both of these cars, but I'd have to choose the Edsel. My dream car. I just love how weird it is. (Although I'd rather have a citation/Corsair vs a pacer/ranger...)

Chevy Apache :)

meiner ist auch Baujahr 1959.....supu supi geil

DODGE is more of a direct competitor to PONTIAC in the GM line. DeSOTO competed with OLDSMOBILE, CHRYSLER with BUICK, and IMPERIAL with CADILLAC. (PLYMOUTH directly competed with CHEVROLET)

My parents traded a '69 Pontiac Catalina in on a new '71 Caprice and they loved it! I remember the sticker on it was $5202. My dad was in the military and we moved quite a bit so it was driven all over the USA and was even driven all over Europe when he was stationed in Germany for three years - I got to see Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, England and even Berlin when it was still behind the "iron curtain" from the back seat of that Caprice - talk about memories!! Many of the Europeans thought it was a Cadillac and would stare at it everywhere we went, we would come out of a store or restaurant and there'd be people surrounding it giving it a good looking over. My father (now 94yo and no longer drives -THANK GOD -lol) still talks fondly about that Caprice to this day!

Innuendo extravaganza.

I wonder if that guy with the dirty hands was a mechanic, or shelling walnuts?

The Dodge fin looks like a turtles claw with all those cheap looking nipple lights. The Buick fin looks like a fin should look. Sleek!

CHEVROLET equals, Cheap Hardly Efficient Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time.

I always liked the look of the 1955 and 1956 Fords a lot.

‘55 Hudson Hornet with Packard V8 for me :)

chevy wont tell you that first production cars have no oil filter...also ,,they brag about bonded brake lining..but wont tell you that after a few miles down then road the bonded lining can brake apart and fall off the brake shoe...or get cracked from heat ..and ford was using the y block design since 52 in the lincoln and larger truck use.....and chevy had NOTHING on the crown victoria ,,,NOTHING..i guess thats why they didnt talk much about it

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