Hispano Suiza is a brand designed for pleasure, to be enjoyed with all five senses. It is synonymous with experiences, like enjoying a wine from the Empordà while you pair it with one of a thousand cheeses that Toni Gerez works with at the Castell Perelada Restaurant. It is driving along the winding roads of the Costa Brava and getting the full potential of the Hispano Suiza Carmen Boulogne on a circuit.
It is an experience that immerses you in the atelier and allows you to meet everyone who will make your dream hypercar a reality.
Hispano Suiza is, after all, an experience from start to finish.
However, we wanted the experience to start much earlier. We had to be able to transfer this explosion of sensations to the digital world through our best showcase: our website.
The corporate site is the window to the brand’s world. It’s the small hole in the wall through which we can see what’s happening inside. What Hispano Suiza is and what it wants to be. Therefore, creating a page representing us from start to finish was essential. We’ve developed a website that shared our spirit and conveyed our way of being and acting, enhancing the user experience.
“Kings of Mambo” understood the importance of this space and turned the website into an experience in itself. They transferred Hispano Suiza’s new brand image to the site, giving off a dynamic feel that transmits speed and luxury. Thus, anyone visiting our website can enjoy all the elements of our brand’s DNA: a brand in constant evolution.
If one thing stands out in the racing world, it’s the constant need to evolve and develop new products, techniques, and systems. Because for a vehicle to stand out from the rest and achieve victory, it needs to be faster, easier to drive and safer.
For this reason, the teams dedicate a large part of their resources (time, finance, and team) to strengthening their R&D department, which will be responsible for developing and improving the vehicles. In recent years, with the emergence of new technologies and the automation of many processes, these departments have developed new materials that have marked a turning point in the automotive sector.
One is carbon fiber, a material derived from the aeronautic sector. It is tremendously light but resistant, making it an indispensable part of the competition sector. Composed of fiber and resin yarns, carbon fiber has a relationship between its mechanical properties and its density that is very beneficial, making it a very desirable material for any vehicle.
Much of the development at Hispano Suiza comes directly from the racing sector. Our team has worked (and continues to work) in various automobile competitions, developing or applying new technologies to vehicles. These competitions work as a test bench for Hispano Suiza, applying these improvements to its hypercars, ensuring they are at the forefront of technology.
One of these improvements is using carbon fiber in the Hispano Suiza Carmen (and its later versions), which affects not only specific parts of the vehicle but the entire structure and its outer shell. A more than evident use in the case of the Hispano Suiza Carmen Boulogne, which has an exposed fiber coating.
Carbon fiber is a very desirable material but very hard to use, as it requires a manual technique that high production runs can’t replicate. It can only be applied appropriately when the vehicles are treated with great care and seen as something more than a means of transport: a work of art, a collector’s item.
Hispano Suiza can use carbon fiber in all its hypercars because each vehicle is handmade and treated with the respect and care it deserves, ensuring every little detail so that the final result is a dream come true. Hispano Suiza’s philosophy is based on creating works of art, unique and unrepeatable pieces. That is why we claim the pleasure of belonging to something unique.
We live in an increasingly homogeneous world, structurally designed to replicate patterns capable of generating a mass industry, pursuing efficiency and optimizing efforts and costs. Only the brave, daring or unaware dare to break away from the norm.
The tendency to replicate everything, and for everyone, is inherent to the day-to-day life of contemporary society. A society that dresses a certain way because it’s fashionable, entertains itself as dictated, or flatters the same icons.
Therefore, it is risky, to say the least, to step out of this mold and move away from the norm. And precisely this risk gives daring adventurers the possibility of cherishing something truly unique. That uniqueness, a characteristic of artists who dared to break the mold, was responsible for allowing us to dream of the lights and shadows or the provocative strokes of unique geniuses such as Dalí or Picasso, among others.
Today, those who knew how to bet on that boldness can count on their works as part of their legacy. Works that, in the eyes of our homogeneous world, are considered an unattainable luxury. Even so, the mistake is to only conceive the final piece as a luxury. As extraordinary as that piece is, so is the approach of the person who swims against the current, and dared to break away from the established norm.
In this way, what’s easy or accessible is that which can be replicated, that which is designed once and copied as many times as people wish. On the contrary, something unique is designed on one occasion without the possibility of being recreated.
Since its inception, Hispano Suiza has stood as an antidote to attain coveted and sought-after uniqueness, a distinction that allows us to continue dreaming of excellence and uniqueness. The objective: to find beauty in that which is different, in that which is unique.
And that’s what the Daughter team captured in our brand video. The creative agency, together with Fil Fury as director of the film, were charged with capturing Hispano Suiza’s DNA, and presenting the outcome to the world a few weeks ago. With a combination of real images and CGI, along with a powerful and captivating voice, Daughter Studio created a modern and striking visual piece, maintaining Hispano Suiza’s essence at all times.
One of the features that has most characterized Hispano Suiza over the years is its dynamism. Ours is a company in constant movement, adapting to space and time, as well as to trends and technological advances. An attribute that still prevails today, with a Hispano Suiza that has not stopped evolving.
Since the rebirth of the brand in 2019, the world has changed almost completely. We have had to adapt to new ways of working; we have developed new habits, and even our communication has been transformed. Therefore, Hispano Suiza has had to face a series of needs resulting from a new global (and digital) landscape.
One way that we have met these needs has been rethinking, designing and developing a new corporate image, which faithfully represents the DNA of our brand, as well as our essence, and with a view to the future. All the while aligning with the modern day and the trends that will define the coming years.
However, we were faced with an exciting challenge: while looking to the future and adapting to newer times, we also wanted to continue to pay tribute to the heritage and history of our brand, one of the biggest and richest in the automotive world. Therefore, we had to find a way to adapt how we showed ourselves to the world, without losing the heart of the Hispano Suiza that Damián Mateu and Marc Birkigt founded.
For this reason, we agreed to keep the shield and the stork emblem intact, coined in memory of Georges Guynemer, a French pilot who was part of an aviation squadron that housed Hispano Suiza engines and used the outline of a stork as a symbol. In other words, the new image of Hispano Suiza had to keep the same logo and symbols, although enhanced for the digital environment of the present day.
Two essential elements of the brand’s structure inspired the new corporate image. On the one hand, the “hyperlux” ideal, a term coined by Hispano Suiza and which is the result of joining the words “hypercar” and “luxury”. This concept was born from the need to describe sports cars capable of taming the road and becoming real racing cars, but crafted with careful attention to detail and materials of the highest quality. In other words, it was born out of the need to describe Hispano Suiza vehicles.
From this idea arose the apparent dichotomy that has defined the new brand image: the balance between luxury and exclusivity, and the sporty look and competitive DNA that has marked the brand’s history. Two worlds so far apart that, at first, seem incompatible, but we have managed to bring them together to form a unique result.
The new image was also inspired by the brand’s ethos (character, personality): the pleasure of belonging to the unique. This idea became the team’s mantra, which sought to develop a new image conveying the same concept.
Considering the history of Hispano Suiza and that it was one of the favorite brands among aristocrats, artists and intellectuals of the 20th century, such as Albert Einstein, Coco Channel or Paul McCartney, we sought to convey what the experience of owning a Hispano Suiza meant. The experience of driving a limited series vehicle. The experience of belonging to something unique.
Every proposal, every small change, has been thought out and studied in detail. Nothing has been left to chance.
For this, the “FutureBrand” team immersed itself in Hispano Suiza. It immersed itself in our history, who we were, who we are and how we look to the future. It studied our way of working and our audience. They got to know our team and the concerns of everyone who makes up the brand. In short, they dedicated themselves to understanding our raison d’être. And, once this was achieved, they went on to investigate our environment. The world in which we move.
With all this clear, they let their imagination run wild and gave free rein to creativity. Here is a glimpse of the result. Interact and discover the new Hispano Suiza. We hope you like it as much as we do.
The unshakable will to continue improving and evolving proves that Hispano Suiza perseveres. We will continue to work with our sights set on new projects in the short, medium and long term. We will begin to uncover them soon.
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