The Hispano Suiza story
The modern Hispano Suiza Carmen programme revives a historical luxury-car name through an electric hypercar rather than a reproduction of an old mechanical layout. Carmen, Boulogne and Sagrera develop that modern family in different directions. Their shared name and visual references create a connection with the marque’s past, while the underlying performance brief belongs to a different era.
A revival is most convincing when it contributes a specific new idea. We are interested in how the body language, cabin and technology make that connection meaningful, rather than treating a famous badge as sufficient justification. The current family remains the centre of this profile’s modern model archive.
Current lineup & programmes
Performance and specialist model families are listed below. Programme status describes the manufacturer’s published range or announcement, rather than stock or an available allocation. Open-top and special derivatives are grouped where they share a family; follow the model link for the distinctions.
Hispano Suiza Carmen / Boulogne / Sagrera
Current programme · 2010s
Past models
Past performance-car families relevant to our 1996–2026 archive. A surviving product page or conversion catalogue does not mean the original donor car remains in production.
This is a young programme without a separate completed road-model generation in our thirty-year archive. The current family and its development history are the starting point.
The SuperCarNews view
The Carmen family, including Boulogne and Sagrera, links electric propulsion with an explicitly historical visual identity. The treatment of the rear body and the overall silhouette gives it a different character from a conventional wedge-shaped hypercar. It is a reminder that new propulsion does not oblige every designer to choose the same futuristic vocabulary.
We find that tension more useful than a generic claim of timelessness. A historical reference can create a distinctive object, but it can also constrain proportion or practicality. The car deserves criticism of how successfully those elements coexist, rather than automatic approval because the marque has a long history.
The derivatives also make clear that an electric programme can develop through battery and aerodynamic revisions as well as styling. A proper specification comparison needs the exact version and source date. Using one capacity or range figure for every Carmen would blur the development story.