an expensive, high-
class, European-made car.
any of various luxury and sports cars manufactured in
France and Spain from the early to mid-1900s by the Spanish
firm of the same name. The
firm Hispano-Suiza first began in 1904 in
Barcelona making luxury cars. In 1911 a
factory was opened in
France which was soon to become the Hispano-Suiza
manufacturing plant and which was in
operation until the 1940s.