Changing Lanes

Changing Lanes

Yesterday’s Car of Tomorrow

From the Edsel to the Cybertruck

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Andrew Miller
Aug 05, 2025
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Customers may want the future, but more than this, they want something that works. Seventy years ago, learning this lesson cost Ford about $2.5 billion in today's dollars. Today, Tesla is learning it with the Cybertruck. The pattern is so consistent it deserves a name.

We might call it Edsel syndrome.

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