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This is a list of current and defunct Spanish automobiles, listed by manufacturer. Current companies ... (Sports Cars) Uro (trucks) (Civil/Military Trucks) Defunct ...
Hispano-Suiza (Spanish for 'Spanish-Swiss') is a Spanish automotive company. It was founded in 1904 by Marc Birkigt and Damián Mateu [] as an automobile manufacturer and eventually had several factories in Spain and France that produced luxury cars, aircraft engines, trucks and weapons.
Things started to change for the Spanish car industry in the 1960s when an industrial policy was launched with measures which contributed to the Spanish miracle. 1955 Pegaso Z-102 Touring. In the years from 1958 to 1972 the sector grew at a yearly compound rate of 21.7%; in 1946 there were 72,000 private cars in Spain, in 1966 there were 1 ...
Santana Motor, S.A. (/ s æ n ˈ t æ n ə / san-TAN-ə, [5] Spanish:) was a Spanish motor vehicle manufacturer based in Linares, in the province of Jaén, Spain. [6]It was originally created in 1956 as "Metalúrgica de Santa Ana, S.A." to manufacture agricultural machinery, but soon, in 1961, it began to produce off-road cars under licence from Land Rover in its factory in Linares sold under ...
The SEAT 600 helped to start the Spanish miracle –the economic boom in Spain between 1959 and 1973– that came at the end of the slow recovery from the Spanish Civil War. It was the first car that came within the modest but rapidly growing economic means of most Spanish families from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.
Pegaso factory in Madrid. 1951 Pegaso II truck as restored in 2006 Pegaso Z-102 BS 3.2-litre sports car, Competition Touring Spyder.. The first Enasa produced truck, a slightly modified Hispano-Fiat 66G, was the Pegaso I, of which only a few units were made (due mostly to the severe shortages of the post-war era) in 1946 and 1947.
The Pegaso Z-102 is a Spanish sports car produced by Pegaso in Spain in both coupé and cabriolet form from 1951 until 1958. The Z-102 was the fastest car in the world at the time of production, having reached a top speed of 151 mph (243 km/h).