Although it looked like a toy, the Biscúter revolutionised the Spanish market in the 1950s. Its design was the brainchild of one of the great geniuses of French luxury car construction, Gabriel Voisin. Quite a contrast for a car that was born in the midst of the autarchy and became an icon of that era.

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