Facel was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 manufacturer of automobile

Automobile

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s from 1954 to 1964.

The company was named after the original metal stamping company FACEL, and the company's first model, the Vega, named after the star

Vega

Vega is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, the fifth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus...

, was introduced at the 1954 Paris Auto Show. The cars were advertised with the slogan For the Few Who Own the Finest.

Initially successful, the company failed after the debut of its mechanically troubled Facellia model.
The marque Facel Vega was created in 1954 by Jean Daninos

Jean Daninos

Jean Daninos was a Greek- French constructor of luxury cars Facel Vega.The brother of the Pierre Daninos, Jean Daninos had founded the company FACEL in 1939 with hopes of one day designing and manufacturing his own...

 (brother of the humorist Pierre Daninos

Pierre Daninos

Pierre Daninos was a French writer and humorist.Daninos wrote Les carnets du Major Thompson, which was published in 1954, and was followed by many sequels. The books in the series pretended to be the observations of a retired British officer living in France, and were witty collections of...

, who wrote Les Carnets du Major Thomson), although the Facel company had been established by the Bonzavia Company in 1939 as a subcontracting company for the aviations industry.