Autos España: The Casa Batlló Heir Who Sold 850 Cars to an Army About to Lose Them Every American who has done Barcelona has a photo of the Batlló family’s money on their phone, and not one of them knows the family built cars. The money is Casa Batlló, the Gaudí house on Passeig de … Read more
Spain Built a Hyper-Luxury Car That Stole the Paris Motor Show — Then Its Own Widow Had the Blueprints Burned Ask almost anyone in Britain or America to name a great Spanish car of the 1920s and you’ll get a blank look. Maybe, if they’re sharp, Hispano-Suiza. And that’s it. The received wisdom is that … Read more
Pegaso: The Winged Horse That Motorized a Nation and Couldn’t Survive Itself A brand born from the ashes of another. A state-owned company created to build trucks in a country shattered by war that, by the vision of a genius with zero business sense, ended up producing the fastest production car on the planet. A … Read more
Hispano-Suiza in the Air: The Spanish Engines That Ruled the Skies of the Great War When the world’s greatest pilots chose a Spanish heart for their war machines The Engine That Changed the War In September 1914, with Europe burning in the First World War, a member of the Spanish Royal House visited the Hispano-Suiza … Read more
Hispano-Suiza: the Barcelona luxury brand whose brakes Rolls-Royce licensed, whose V8 flew Rickenbacker’s SPAD, and whose H6C beat Stutz at Indianapolis.
