A luxury car, more prestigious than a Rolls, the Hispano Suiza was a vehicle that was not lacking in the garages of the most prominent personalities of the thirties, such as the shah of Persia, the king of Spain Alfonso VIII, General Franco or Pablo Picasso. The J12 model appears in the 1979 James Bond film "Moonraker", where it is driven by the driver of Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale).