Metal 3D Printing: How a Spanish Multinational Became the Turning Point for Classic Car Restoration There’s a factory on an industrial estate in Linares, a mid-sized city in southern Spain nobody outside the country has ever heard of, that ships more than 95% of what it builds to over sixty countries. Almost no one in … 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
Braid: the Spanish factory that quietly puts half the racing world on its wheels Chris Harris can tell you everything about a car the second it leaves a corner. The throttle, the slip angle, the way the rear steps out. But ask anyone, Harris included, what the car is rolling on, and the answer goes … Read more
SIATA Española: The Italian Dream That Ended Up Delivering Bread Britain had its kit-car dreamers and its backyard sports-car builders — the men who, with more passion than capital, tried to bottle a bit of Italian glamour in a draughty shed. Most failed. A few became legends. But almost none of them did it under … Read more
VIASA: The Train Builder That Made Spain’s Forgotten Jeep Picture the scene. It’s the late 1950s, you run one of Spain’s biggest railway manufacturers, and the order book for train carriages has just gone quiet. The factory floor is cooling down. Hundreds of workers are about to go home with nothing to do. What do … Read more
URO: The Spanish Factory You’ve Never Heard Of That Builds Tactical Vehicles For Thirty Countries Three letters, zero recognition In the English-speaking world, when someone says “Spanish car industry,” the answers are predictable. SEAT. Maybe Hispano-Suiza if the person reads about pre-war luxury. Pegaso if they know their Wifredo Ricart history. Spano if they follow … Read more
Santana Motor: the Spanish 4×4 that humiliated the British, died with the country — and just came back with Chinese blood You’ve probably never heard of Linares. It’s a small city in the south of Spain, sitting in the middle of an olive-tree ocean in the province of Jaén — historically one of the poorest … Read more
