Word: facel
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...Facel's Facellia, a handcrafted, sports-touring convertible designed for the overseas luxury market. First truly high-performance French car for the public since World War II, the Facellia features a four-cylinder, 115-h.p. engine with a top speed of 114 m.p.h. U.S. price...
...cars from 68 automakers in nine countries, and as always the crowds clustered admiringly around the rich and the racy. Britain's famed Rolls-Royce showed off a new Silver Cloud convertible ($19,350); there was a 150-m.p.h. Aston Martin sports sedan ($9,870), a new French Facel-Vega sedan ($12,800), and a handsome roadster ($10,500) from Germany's B.M.W. But the real news this year was the continuing growth of the small-car market, and the automakers' pitch to the family that would rather spend its money on two modest cars than...