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Whilst witnessing Somerset lad Jenson Button score yet another Grand Prix <\/a>win, this around Barcelona’s neck-jarring Circuit de Catalunya<\/em> it occurred to us here at Influx, that despite the Spanish being incredibly passionate about motoring, the man in the street would be hard pressed to mention a Spanish car brand other than SEAT.<\/p>\n

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The Iberian car corporation make great value motors encoded with a lot of passion and emotion. Witness the killer new Bocanegra (pictured above) a dark internal and external trim flourish on the sexy little Supermini that was released last week at the Barcelona motor show. Ibiza Bocanegra\u2019s styling is also a tribute to the Spaniards\u2019 original Bocanegra, the 1200 Sport, which debuted in its home country back in 1975 (pictured top)<\/p>\n

The \u201870s car, a milestone in the Brand\u2019s history as the first model to be wholly developed at the SEAT Technical Centre in Martorell, quickly went on to become a firm favourite in its home market and notched up sales of more than 11,000 in just three years.<\/p>\n

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But there’s more to Spanish automotive history than SEAT. Brands like the legendary Hispano-Suiza, a (Spanish-Swiss joint venture as the name suggests) and Pegaso (known in recent times as a producer of commercial vehicles) produced innovative, ground breaking car design in both the pre-war era and into the fifties and sixties.<\/p>\n

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The Pegaso Z102 (above) was a particularly beautiful little machine that evoked in the Catalunyan camargue the same sort of emotion that the Lancia Aurelia managed to conjure in the Veneto.<\/p>\n

We’ve been inspired to delve into the almost-forgotten history of Spanish car passion for a feature later this year. Never let it be said that Latin passion for cars began and ended at Maranello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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