Hispano-Suiza J12 - Spanish luxury car of the 1930s (17 photos)

Sometimes you want, greedily devouring your eyes, to look at something that basically inaccessible to you. Something perfect and amazing. The Spanish luxury car Hispano-Suiza J12 is exactly that thing.





The car was produced from 1931 to 1938 and became the rarest and most shamelessly expensive model of the company Hispano-Suiza. Her main feature was a 220 horsepower engine. It was modified aircraft engine: two in-line engines connected in the form of the letter V under 60° angle. Fuel consumption reached 35 liters per 100 km. J12 cost was $10,150.

At the same time, the J12 was available only in the form of a chassis, customers had to negotiate with third-party car manufacturers about body integration. Hispano-Suiza suspended production of the J12 in 1938 year to focus on the production of aircraft engines (you know what times then came).