I found this on Simple Wikipedia recently and was stunned to see that Ford had an early division called “Freddie Mercury.” Who knows, with a name like Edsel being used to brand one of their cars, maybe Henry Ford had another son named Freddie and it got attached to a line of Mercuries back in the day.
Problem is, there’s no mention of such a division or even model with this name on any of the Ford/Mercury history sites.
Checking out the Talk/Change pages on Wikipedia indicates that someone arbitrarily added “freddie” to that sentence when it used to just say “In the 1930’s, the name ‘Mercury’ was given to a division centred on mid-priced cars.”
Methinks someone is just being a smart ass.
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