Facel Vega

Chris · 10-18-2001, 01:40 PM

A lovely French luxury car maker from the 50's and 60's. They made big American-inspired cars (they were powered by Chrysler hemi's), they were quite popular with the rich. They could cruise at 120mph, and still be really luxurious and nice to drive. In many respects, they competed against Ferrari, because if you wanted luxury at high speed, Ferrari couldn't do it, but Facel-Vega could (although acceleration was a fair bit slower, as was handling).
They might still be around today, it they hadnt made an un-reliable mainstream car (the warranty claims forced them into bankruptcy).
Sigh

Jimster · 11-03-2001, 01:50 AM

Those FAcel Vega's were very nice cars

EightOhOne · 12-29-2001, 05:52 PM

anyone have pics?

Chris · 12-31-2001, 07:51 PM

here they go:

If you can read french, go here
Thats where those pics come from. So I don't know anything about them. Here are some more from
this place
1963 Facel II

1957 FV4

And yet more I found on the web:

Go here for even more pics, and just click on links

crayzayjay · 02-27-2002, 01:33 PM

Great car. These things go for a fortune

Chris · 02-28-2002, 11:00 AM

I saw one at the Toronto Auto Show. It was an HK500, and was a huge highlight of the day for me. It was not perfect, but it was a great car nonetheless.

crayzayjay · 02-28-2002, 05:46 PM

it sounds stupid but sometimes a car's faults make it more lovable to its driver. it shows how willing you are to tolerate little weaknesses because the rest of the car or the car as a whole is so great and enjoyable..

dave@stjohncable.c · 02-02-2004, 01:33 AM

my father-inlaw had one with a dual-qaud 383 in it awhile back,he said it was stock,but I don't know enough about them.

Stefanel1 · 02-11-2004, 03:13 PM

Very nice... but very rare and expensive.

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