Why the 1950 Hudson Commodore 8 Stands Out with the 'Step-Down Ride'

Found driving in southern TN. The bumper stickers says it all....."Built When Cars Were Made To Last".

Very large car, the 1950 Hudson Commodore measures 77.00 inches in width, The 1950 Hudson Commodore measures 208.00 inches in length, and has a wheelbase of 124.00 inches.

The beautiful, streamlined Hudson for 1950, the only car with the “step-down ride” and Hudson’s exclusive “Monobuilt Body-and-Frame,” the forerunner of today’s Unit-Body construction.

This was a big, roomy, low center of gravity road machine, and one of the most elegant cars of its day. Remember the movie, “Driving Miss Daisy?” Morgan Freeman chauffeured Miss Daisy in her 1950 Hudson Commodore 8, just like this one.

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When Hudson introduced the Step Down Design it was a breakthrough for American automobiles. The unibody construction provided a sleek outline, greater body rigidity, increased interior space and a lower center of mass than other cars of the era. These cars were known as stepdowns because the floor of the cabin was welded to the bottom side of frame rails so to enter the car one stepped over the frame and down into the car.