Edsel Bermuda

The Edsel Bermuda was a station wagon, which by the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn (Michigan ) was prepared under the brand name Edsel only in model year 1958. Like its sister models, the Villager and Roundup Bermuda was built on the chassis of the Ford station wagon with 2,946 mm wheelbase. From these models also came most body parts.

The Bermuda was the most luxurious trim level of the Edsel station wagons and it gave him only in the first year of Edsel production. In addition to the luxurious interior possessed the Bermuda imitation wood in the interior, a hallmark of the luxurious suits the Ford Group. There was the Bermuda with 6 and with 9 seats. To distinguish it from its Ford sister models of Bermuda had the typical Edsel front with the elongated central grille and the unique boomerang-shaped tail lights. The special shape of the rear lights brought about the problem that the left turn signal appeared and vice versa from a distance than to the right -pointing arrow.

All station wagons had standard the engine of the Ranger, a V8 with 5,916 cc displacement and an output of 303 bhp (223 kW) at 4,600 rpm. , As well as a manual three-speed transmission. The customers could also get to request a three-stage automatic transmission with shift lever on the steering column, or the particularly advertised for the Edsel models Teletouch automatic transmission with control buttons in the steering wheel hub.

Although Bermuda had been introduced in the fall of 1957 with a lot of advertising expense, its sales figures were disappointing total of only 1,456 six-seater and 779 -seater nine units were built. Thus, the Bermuda - nine -seater is the rarest model of the 1958 palette. The six- seater cost 3.155, - U.S. $, the nine- seater 3.212, - U.S. $ ( adjusted for inflation today about $ 27,635 ).

In model year 1959 we adjusted the models Bermuda and Roundup and offered as a station wagon only to the Villager. Likewise, the prone Teletouch automatic disappeared.