Edsel Roundup
The Edsel Roundup was a station wagon, the Ford Motor Company manufactured in model year 1958 under the brand name Edsel. Like its sister models, Bermuda and Villager was the roundup on the Ford chassis with 2946 mm wheelbase. With the Ford station wagon, these cars had in common and the most sheet metal parts.
The Roundup was the easiest equipped Edsel station wagon and it gave him only in the Year 1958. The Roundup has been supplied with 6 seats and 3 doors. He had black rubber floor mats, armrest, ashtray front and rear, interior lighting and exit lights, and a white roof lining made of vinyl. The standard- a divided backrest of the front seat, which allowed the back seat passengers boarding. Rather than crank window of Roundup had rear sliding window.
In the late 1950s and in the 1960s, you could often find the Roundup at various vantage points or in drive-in theaters.
To distinguish the Ford Ranch Wagon, from which he was discharged, the Roundup was the typical Edsel front fascia and the rear lights in a boomerang shape. The shape of the tail lights presented a problem, since the left turn signal from a distance appeared as a right -pointing arrow - and vice versa.
All Edsel station wagons had the engine of the Ranger, a V8 with 5,915 cc displacement, the (223 kW) made 303 bhp and was connected in series with a manual three-speed transmission. However, the purchasers could order me a three automatic selector lever on the steering column, or the highly touted, but problematic Teletouch automatic with dial pad in the steering wheel hub.
Like the other cars of the brand was also the Roundup despite great presentation in the fall of 1957, a marketing flop. Only 963 units were built in 1958. This failure can be seen on the dwindling popularity 3-door station wagons in the U.S. and the lack of customer interest attributed to Edsel vehicles.
In the following year the Roundup and the luxurious Bermuda had disappeared from the model range; the medium model Villager was from this point the only Edsel station wagon.