Hey, there have been some real winners! Back in 1957, Ford bragged about “the car of the decade.” The Edsel. Unless you lucked out, the Edsel you bought had a door that wouldn’t close, a horn that kept getting stuck, paint that peeled, and a transmission that wouldn’t fulfill its mission. One business writer likened the Edsel’s sales graph to an extremely dangerous ski slope. He added that as far as he knew, there was only one case on record of an Edsel ever being stolen.… A friend of mine, realizing
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