• Critics compared the model's most distinctive styling element, a vertical grille with a large oval in the center, to a horse collar or a car sucking a lemon.

    WSJ: Edsel's Designer Took Flop in Stride

  • He lightly stroked the hood, then stroked it again, as if it were not a car but an old horse, tied to a fence and given a friendly pat to indicate that the wait would not be long.

    NEWYORKER: Heirs

  • "When you look to the German car manufacturers now, they are fighting against each other with the biggest statement, with more horse power, and these days a diesel engine car is as powerful as a petrol car, " Saab Europe's Claude Makowski told BBC News Online.

    BBC: The Jaguar XJ

  • Every driver wants to race a car that has the Prancing Horse embossed on the steering wheel, but your teammate will be Alonso.

    CNN: Massa under more scrutiny in Montreal

  • But broadcasters still carry political weight, and many members of Congress fear them, so I found myself on the witness list this morning addressing why this idea makes as much sense as requiring every car be led by a horse.

    FORBES: Dinosaur Broadcasters Turn to Congress to Mandate Their Relevance

  • Imagine if everyone who used to ride a horse for transportation simply refused to drive a car.

    FORBES: Look Dad, No Handshakes!

  • There were people still using horse-drawn buggies 50 years after the affordable car was introduced.

    FORBES: Age of Context Draft Introduction

  • Of course, people have always forgotten the car keys (or where they left the horse).

    ECONOMIST: When memory fails

  • He added that Dray Horse Square Yard, opposite the entrance to the market car park on Weymouth Avenue, would open at the end of October and includes a new cinema and restaurant.

    BBC: Dorchester's Brewery Square redevelopment work delayed

  • We owned no car and Paddy had been driving me in a horse and trap to the Loreto convent, a red-brick building on a hill overlooking Youghal bay, where the nuns were slowly teaching me to read and write.

    NPR: Cockburn's 'Broken Boy,' a Memoir of Survival

  • It is hard to remember that when the 20th century began, the car was seen as a move towards cleanliness: the manure, urine and carcasses that horse-drawn transport left behind in big cities were not only unpleasant and costly to clear up, but also helped spread disease.

    ECONOMIST: A Survey of the 20th Century

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