The Hispano-Suiza H6 is a car from Hispano-Suiza, built from 1919 to 1933, as the assembly line was turning motoring into an industry. Under the bonnet: 6597 cc straight-6. Marc Birkigt drew it.
Where it came from
The Hispano-Suiza H6 is a luxury car that was produced by Hispano-Suiza, mostly in France. Introduced at the 1919 Paris Motor Show, the H6 was produced until 1933. Roughly 2,350 H6, H6B, and H6C cars were produced in total.
Under the skin
Power comes from 6597 cc straight-6; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1583 kg. It shifts through a 3-speed manual. 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. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Hispano-Suiza J12; assembly was at Paris (Bois-Colombes factory), France. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Renault GS, the Fiat 505, the Fiat 501 — 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.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Hispano-Suiza H6 has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.