Hispano Suiza is now treating us to a 12-second video teaser to show that the upcoming hypercar means business. The model features an exotic name, the Carmen Sagrera.
It is a name selected as a tribute to the history of the company. Sagrera is the Barcelona district where Hispano Suiza built the first large production facility, a move that allowed the brand to keep up with the demand.
The factory currently occupies a surface of 50,000 square meters, following two expansions, and employs 1,800 people.
Designed by Francesc Arenas, the brand’s Styling and Design Director, and based on the Carmen, launched in 2019, the Sagrera is going to sport a large rear wing made from carbon fiber, which is a clear statement that it means business.
The all-electric Sagrera will drop as the third member of the Hispano Suiza family just in time to mark the brand's 120th anniversary. Due to be unveiled in mid-2024, the hypercar will come with a new battery pack with a capacity of 103 kW, set to increase the driving range.
The brand was founded by Damian Mateu, the fourth generation of the Suque Matey family, in 1904. He received assistance from his friend and business partner, engineer Marc Birkigt.
The carmaker built more than 12,000 vehicles and 50,000 aircraft engines between 1904 and 1946. It vanished from the automotive world in the late 1960s and attempted to make a comeback in 2010, showing a model by an affiliated firm, Erwin Leo Himmel, at the Geneva Motor Show. But the production never commenced.
They tried again in 2019, unveiling the Carmen at that year's edition of the Geneva Motor Show. Only 19 cars were built in two years in a very limited run. The model, with a name inspired by the granddaughter of one of the two co-founders of the brand, Hispano-Suiza Damian Meteu, came with 1,005 horsepower (1,019 metric horsepower).
The Carmen Boulogne arrived in 2021 with a planned run of only five units for a total of 24. The model came with extra oomph (1,099 horsepower or 1,114 metric horsepower), provided by two extra motors added to the two standard ones and a visual makeover.
The list of visual upgrades included copper inserts over an unpainted black carbon fiber body, which secured it a more aggressive styling.
Both were equipped with an 80 kWh battery pack, providing the standard version with 249 miles (400 kilometers) of range. The first unit arrived in the United States in 2022.
The Carmen Sagrera is also going to make it to the US, but the carmaker has never mentioned how many units will roll off the production line this time. But it surely will be a super limited run of exclusive automobiles.
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