From the archive: driving the world's most magnificent car

“The mere mention of the name Hispano-Suiza suggests a car of the highest quality. Thus, when it is announced that this firm has decided to market a 12-cylinder model, one naturally expects to find something of more than ordinary interest. "In this respect, one is not disappointed, for that designed by Marc Birkigt is a car of exceptional merit,” we reported ahead of 1931’s Paris motor show.

“It runs on a very high top gear ratio, and probably the engine does not have to develop anything like the full amount of power that would actually be possible with its size, so that the car does 90 or 100 in literally as easy a fashion as a car of lesser size will do 60 or 70. “Yet the significance of even these figures is not easily grasped. The car has to be tried to be believed, and the tremendous ease of the performance, as well as its vivid nature, appreciated.

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