No matter what you think of the Edsel-------the reason ford cancelled them was that they were taking sales from Ford and Mercury dealers---------since the Mercurys were from Lincoln/Mercury dealers and Fords from Ford dealers-----------the Edsel dealerships were sold to competing brands dealers---mostly what I remember is American motors, Studebaker,Kaiser,etc dealer groups-caused a bigggggggggggggg backlash-
they didn't have the effect of getting BOP customers from GMC---------