What’s the easiest way to identify an automaker’s best car? Just look at what the head honcho is driving. A Facel Vega Facel II prototype once owned by the French marque’s founder ...

"For the Few Who Own the Finest," the initial cars were a bit short of the mark. The idea was solid enough. The first Facel (the FV1) was built around a tubular steel chassis (designed by Lance ...

Given the mystique surrounding Facel Vega, it’s a car for connoisseurs, one of the most exclusive brands you can own. Retromobile 2020 To display this content from , you must enable ...

Using this model and other work with Citroen and Ford-France as a launch pad, Daninos designed the "Vega," under the manufacturer name Facel and unveiled the car at the Paris Salon in 1954.

The Facel name is relatively unknown outside of the geeky classic car world these days, but back in the 1950s and 1960s the French brand’s cars, like the Facel II, were sought out by movie ...