August 2018, BBC World News America. When it comes to online
news sources, there are countless options available. That's
not what we are doing now. The success of the standard Victoria at the expense of the
Crown can be partially explained by its now sharing the Crown Vic's longer roofline, which made the Victoria look almost as good for $144 less in the Fairlane V-8 series, $245 less in the Customline V-8.
In addition, there was now a Victoria in the Customline series ($1,985 with six), with 33,130 produced.
Although it did not feature modern advancements such as a traction control system or power locks - technologies that became standard in later years - the Fairlane Crown Victoria was still a
marvel of its time. Standard Fairlane Victoria production,
however, was up to 177,735 two-doors and 32,
111 of the new four-doors. Overall, Ford output for the 1956 model run dropped
42,679 units, to 1,408,478. Meanwhile, Chevy fell by 137,550 cars,
to 1,567,117. Interestingly, while Ford sold 85.1 percent
as many cars as Chevy in 1955, that figure actually moved up to 89.9 percent in 1956.
Perhaps the conventional wisdom that insists Ford took a licking in 1956 because of
its safety campaign really isn't true - in terms of production, at least.
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