Every car is an argument about what matters, and the Hispano-Suiza Carmen makes its case with electric motor and 749.5 kW. Hispano-Suiza built from 2019 to 2021 — as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market.
What is underneath
Power comes from electric motor; 749.5 kW is the published figure. It weighs 1690 kg. Work it out per tonne and you get about 443 horsepower — hypercar territory, where the limiting factor is the tyre, not the engine. The layout matters: the engine sits behind the driver and ahead of the rear axle, which puts the mass in the middle of the car and is why mid-engined cars change direction the way they do. The wheelbase is 2800 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Barcelona, Spain. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the McLaren GT, the Ferrari Roma, the Ferrari F8 — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Hispano-Suiza catalogue sit the HIspano-Suiza K8 and the Hispano-Suiza Alfonso XIII.