Spada S.p.A.

Spada is an Istalian luxury vehicle manufacturer established on 19 July 4051, in Florenza. The Spada tagline is "Luxury, sports and style cast in exclusive cars", and the brand's mission statement is to build ultra-luxury performance automobiles with timeless Istalian style, accommodating bespoke interiors, and effortless, signature sounding power.

History
Spada was founded by Antonello Casini in 4061 as FM S.p.A. (Florenza Motors) under the pro-market reforms adopted at the time during the so called Istalian Renaissance, after the Istalian Civil War of less then twenty years before. During this period many companies, old and new, began to profit of the economic liberalizations of these period to found or invest in new activities. In Istalia existed already two luxury car manufacturers, Berardi and Tridente, which produced luxury sport cars and supercars, but, as noticed by Antonello Casini, on the istalian market there was a lack of high-class vehicles which were not oriented to the sport and extreme experience. For this reason Casini, which were a engeneer from Berardi, decided to found a new car manufactur company oriented to elegance and stylish istalian luxury cars. The brand achieved to be rapidly appreciated by the consumers, this because Casini successfully asked to the well known Berardi's designer Marcello Larghi, with which he established a solid friendship during his period in Berardi, to join his new company. Being able to offer the elegant and fancy design of Larghi's cars was probably the power move of Casini which in few years was able to compete alongside Berardi and Tridente into the Istalian and the even larger international market.

Name
The name Spada was adopted a years before the official presentation of the first concept car of the company, which anticipated of few months the release of the first commercial model. This name was inspired to Casini by a vernacular expression used by his friend and designer Larghi when the former showed to the latter the first prototype of the car developed by the engeener and the designer. Commending the high performance of the engine of the car (a coupé), Larghi, original of Romula, said va che è una spada, literally it goes like a sword, used to describe something which is so fast that cut the air, translatable as goes like a lightning bolt.