Edsel Villager

The Edsel Villager was a station that offered the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn (Michigan) under the brand name Edsel in the model years 1958 to 1960. As the 3-door Roundup and the top model was the Bermuda Villager built on a Ford chassis with a 2997 mm wheelbase and had many sheet metal parts of the Ford station wagon. Together with the Ranger there was the Villager in all three model years the Edsel brand.

1958

The Villager was the mittelere trim the Edsel station wagon. In contrast to the simply furnished Roundup, there was only him with 4 doors and is available with 6 or 9 seats.

Inside and outside the facilities essentially corresponded to that of the Ranger. He had black rubber floor mats, ashtrays, cigarette lighter, a chrome interior mirror and rear window crank. Like the other Edsel station wagon had the Villager also a two-piece tailgate.

All 1958's station wagons had the mechanics of the Ranger, a V8 engine with 5915 cm3 and 303 bhp (223 kW), and a manual three-speed transmission. The buyers could also be for a three-stage automatic transmission with shift lever on the steering column to decide or (only in 1958! ) For Teletouch automatic with dialpad in the steering wheel hub.

To distinguish the Edsel station wagons from their Ford counterparts, the former had the typical Edsel front grille with vertical in the middle. The station wagons had the boomerang- shaped rear light clusters.

While the first model year, Edsel Villager sold more together than Roundup and Bermuda, namely 3789 pieces, of which 2054 were equipped with 6 seats and 1735 with 9 seats.

1959

1959 got the Villager round taillights, who sat in chrome frame on the waistline. The typical front - Edsel was much less conspicuous than in the previous design. In addition to reduced in size and power V8 engine ( 4785 cm3, 200 kW bhp/147 ) there were - as with the Ranger - still a saving version with six-cylinder engine ( 3654 cm3, 145 kW bhp/107 ).

Although the total sales of Edsel fell in 1959, was sold this year, more than Villager station wagon models from all three of the previous year together, namely 7820 piece (compared to 6470 pieces for all three models in 1958 ). 5687 six-seater was offset by 2133 nine -seaters.

1960

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In 1960, the front of the Edsel vehicles had been very conservative compared to previous years and differed only slightly from the Ford fronts. The Villager got the taillights of the Ranger.

1960 decreased sales of the Villager in accordance with the production only 43 days, which occurred between mid-October 1959, and the end of November 1959. A total of 275 vehicles, of which 216 six-seater and 59 seater Nine arisen (the latter the lowest production number of an Edsel model ).

The name later appeared at Mercury Villager during 1962-1967 produced Comet station wagon with faux wood on the sides of the vehicle. Even with other Mercury station wagon, the name reappeared, eg the Montego (1970-1976), the Bobcat (1975-1980), the Cougar (1977-1982), the Lynx (1981-1984) and the Zephyr ( 1978-1981 ). From 1993 to 2002, the Mercury version of the Nissan Quest minivan was called that.