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Consistency

The article sometime refers to the marque as Facel, sometimes as Facel Vega? Which is correct? It should be consistent. My impression is that Facel is the marque while Facel Vega is a range of models. Egil (talk) 07:32, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

I believe the marque is called Facel Vega. That is at least the name that is used in sale brochures from the time. See here for reference: http://www.facel-vega.com/fv6.shtml The car clubs for the marque also appears to be using the Facel Vega name. Reference: http://www.facelvegacarclub.co.uk/ - 18:00, 21 June 2012. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.16.159.245 (talk)

Facel III

So was the "Facel III" the third version of the big Facel or was it some kind of smaller Facellia ? The current narrative is ambiguous. It seems implausible that you would put a 1.8 litre Volvo engine into the two tonne luxury car.Eregli bob (talk) 15:57, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

The Facellia and the Facel III (three) is the same car, the only difference being the volvo power plant. The Facel II (two) however is a large, full scale luxury coupe.

- 12:52, 23 June 2012.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.16.159.245 (talk)  

Requested move 13 August 2015

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved. The consensus is that the scope of this article should be solely the automobile division. Jenks24 (talk) 02:25, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

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Facel → Facel Vega – Facel S.A. was a metal pressing company; Facel Vega was its automobile division, as you can read in this official story of the company from 1960. And clearly this article is about the car manufacturer. Even the late Facel III was badged Facel Vega. Cloverleaf II (talk) 13:38, 13 August 2015 (UTC) --Relisted. Natg 19 (talk) 16:15, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

• Support clear evidence that 'Facel' is not used on its own (the Facel III you link to even has 'FV' as its 'joke' number). The lead will need to be altered to reflect the change, and 'Facel' be a redirct.Pincrete (talk) 11:20, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
• Object Facel S A was a metal pressing company. Why confuse it with some of its products - a strange and bad idea. Eddaido (talk) 11:25, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Eddaido, just to be sure, the proposal is Facel to Facel Vega, the 'car' division, which is the subject of the article. Facel S A doesn't currently have an article, though it is (confusingly and inconsistently) mentioned in several 'car model' articles.Pincrete (talk) 16:41, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Facel Vega is the brand or marque name not the manufacturer. It was always called Facel (with a brief interim Facel-Metallon). Except in wartime (when I suppose it made similar bits but for aircraft) Facel's business was always cars / car components. A rough British equivalent is Pressed Steel. There are individual articles about (most) of the cars, wait a bit and the range should become complete. You'd like to Move Ford to Ford Zephyr? (same period as the Facel cars) because it seems to me that would be the same thing. (The French article (it tells the reader) is about the marque not the manufacturer). I have taken the liberty of rewriting the lead in case it is easier to follow. Hmmm I might be wrong there - nevertheless . . . Eddaido (talk) 03:47, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

I see it the other way around. Yes, Facel Vega was indeed an automotive marque/division of Facel SA, and it's what this page has always been about. Now you're making steps towards turning it into a broader scope article about Facel SA; it's quite lacking under that respect, because the company's only covered in its automotive activities, that is as long as it was instrumental to Facel Vega. Facel was founded to manufacture aircraft components before the war, and that it continued to do—proof is in the end it was acquired by Sud-Aviation, as you added to the lead section. Facel Vega was only a small part of Facel SA, but surely and by far its most notable one. Though it lacked Facel's background in the automotive field, I see Lamborghini as a closer analogy rather than with an all-out automotive supplier like Pressed Steel, in that its automobile division was born almost as a divertissement for a passionate enterpreneur. —Cloverleaf II (talk) 07:21, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

You are giving me new information about "other activities", Please tell me where it is from. Remember all the Facel Vega cars have (or are intended to have) separate articles, this one is about the manufacturer. The references please for the other activities. Cheers, Eddaido (talk) 07:51, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

See the PDF linked above, for example. On the last page there's a description of all the company's other activities. —Cloverleaf II (talk) 08:37, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

OK I've looked at it. How about this: Are they not all but the special Rolls-Royce combustion chambers in the automotive industry?

• 9630 Jeeps VLR, stamped, welded, painted and furnished, Delahaye has designed for delivery to the French Army.
• 18 738 trucks and truck cabs, stamped, welded, painted and furnished for Simca companies (Quartermaster model), Delahaye and Somua.
• 220,000 shells, stamped and welded to the scooter Vespa, Piaggio for France.
• 500,000 scooters pressed shells, for Motobécane.
• 60,000 covers, awnings and bodies, to Massey Ferguson.
• Hundreds of thousand bumpers, hubcaps and grille and stainless steel for Ford, Renault and Simca.. Eddaido (talk) 08:44, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Of course if you ignore the non-automotive activities (kitchen sinks?) Facel SA was 100% an automotive supplier. None of this is discussed in the article anyway, because it is about the Facel Vega French marque of GT cars. Or at least it was before you edited the lead section according to your objection a few hours ago, effectively changing the scope of the first half of the page. Seems like we don't even agree on what the content itself should be about. —Cloverleaf II (talk) 13:08, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

At the risk of sounding like a broken record please tell me where I learn about these kitchen sinks and other non-automotive products. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 05:25, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

As I understand matters, Facel S A was the parent company, what it produced is irrelevant since the article only mentions the parent in passing. All the 'finished' cars were sold under the 'Vega' label, even the III, though 'Vega' is also the name of a specific marque. 'Facel' is not used on its own and is ambiguous as to whether it is the parent or 'finished vehicle' division. The article is not about the parent, which may warrant an article of its own. ps The modified lead reads like 'an orphaned' reference to 'S A', a rename is in order EITHER to 'S A', with expanded content or to 'Vega' and restrict to cars.Pincrete (talk) 07:24, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

1. The kitchen sinks?
2. SA is (roughly) the French equivalent of Limited and completes the name of the legal entity.
   It is correct that the name of the article is that of the manufacturer and in the top right hand corner the infobox is about that business. Obviously you did not create the article, its name or the infobox and nor did I.
3. All the luxury cars it made have separate individual articles with (obviously temporary) exceptions. It makes sense that the (underdeveloped) article about the manufacturer gives an overview of all the products. For the moment the overview is limited to the luxury cars (why I say underdeveloped).
4. I am referring to the article as it stood when you initiated the move. If you want an umbrella article about the luxury cars which were very well-known I think you should create one. However this article is about the manufacturer and not about its luxury cars which are dealt with by their own individual articles.
5. There would be real value in researching and writing articles about the Facellia, Facel III and Facel 6. And perhaps finding out if they are really Facel Vega 6 etc.

Eddaido (talk) 09:37, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

• The kitchen sinks are in the PDF I linked in my proposal above.

• OK. Perhaps you are muddling kitchen sinks with kitchen cupboards? Pressed Steel made kitchen cupboard units too. They were refrigerated and sold under the name Prestcold. Something lost in translation perhaps.

• As I wrote before, this article was never about Facel SA. It was originally titled Facel Vega and it was an "umbrella" article about the luxury cars as you put it. Then someone moved it to Facel in 2011, I proposed to move it back, and you came by and singlehandedly decided it was about the parent company. How about making a standalone Facel SA article instead?

• (cur | prev) 16:20, 1 September 2011‎ Egil (moved Facel Vega to Facel over redirect: The article is about the manufacturer Facel, although the model Vega is also mentioned)
• 2011 to 2015 is four years during which it has been about the manufacturer and it was the correction of a mistake Even if there was logic in your other arguments and there isn't . . .

• The cars you named were the Facel Vega Facellia, Facel Vega Facel III and Facel Vega Facel 6. They were badged Facel Vega - Paris, and sold by Automobiles Facel Vega - Paris. As you can read in any official brochure, one of which is linked in my proposal above. Several others can be found on the same website.
• A marque which made multiple distinct models over a decade is more than deserving its own article. I can't see what good will come by confusing it with its parent company and Facel-bodied Fords. —Cloverleaf II (talk) 11:45, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

• Its that Ford Zephyr thing again isn't it. Then start its own special page for the "marque"

Regards, Eddaido (talk) 12:00, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Eddaido, not all finished vehicles made by Ford were called Zephyr, so silly argument. The two of you aren't arguing about the name, you are arguing about the content, at present it IS about car manufacture (not car bits or anything else). Eddaido, you are putting unsourced material in the lead which isn't in the article (very, very bad idea). It is clear from the history eg 2011, and as far back as 2002 that the article always has been about the luzury car division. If you want to change the scope of the article, don't muddle it with a renaming discussion. Pincrete (talk) 18:37, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Since the article is almost entirely about Facel Vega the automotive manufacturer, I feel that a rename is in order. And then we create a separate Facel S.A. entry, and all of this wasted energy here can be channeled towards populating that entry with kitchen sinks and whathaveyous. Meanwhile, this lovely period Facel 6 advertisement is pretty unequivocal about who built it. Cheers,  Mr.choppers | ✎  03:33, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi Mr Choppers. Would you remember that years ago there was a marque / brand name Mercedes Benz? (Maybe there still is) Its machines were made by a crowd called Daimler-Benz and many WP editors must have spent fruitless hours looking for a Mercedes Benz manufacturer, reminds me of Panhard ;)) Cheers, Eddaido (talk) 03:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

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