When Ford developed the Edsel car line in the 1950s, it was intended to offer customers something a bit nicer and more distinctive than Mercury cars but not quite as luxurious as a Lincoln.

福特在1950年开发出埃赛尔的生产线时，期待为客户提供一款比默寇利更高档更特别但是又不像林肯那么奢华的车型。

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Edsel Ford, Henry's great-grandson, and a Ford vice President: "I think that my great-grandfather would just be amazed at how far technology has come."

埃德索尔·福特是亨利的曾孙，也是福特公司的副总裁之一。他说：“我想曾祖父对于今天制造工艺取得了如此长足的进步是会惊叹不已的。”

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The Edsel was named for Edsel Ford, the only child of company founder Henry Ford.

Edsel是以福特汽车公司创始亨利·福特的独子Edsel Ford的名字来命名的。

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History is littered with examples of products created before their time, from Ford's Edsel to the Osborne PC years ahead of Apple, and Apple's own notorious flop with the Newton (the iPhone's ancestor).

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It is also a book by Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School.

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When Edsel, Ford's reasonable and likable son, commissioned an improved four-door version of the "T, " Henry paced around the new model and then grabbed hold of a door and ripped it off.

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