Hurtan is a small Spanish manufacturer that has presented a new model in the form of the Grand Albaycín: the Grand Albaycín. The Grand Albaycín is somewhat historical, but uses a modern basis.
Hurtan is a company founded in the eighties by the Spaniard Juan Hurtan with which he wanted to market his own dream car. In the 1990s, the company launched the T2 and T2 + 2 based on roadsters from a distant past, followed by the Albaycin 2P in 2004, the Albaycin 4P in 2006 and the Grand Albaycín in 2008. The latter model is now being followed up in a new model that looks at least as retro as its predecessors.
Hurtan Grand Albaycín (2021)
The official unveiling of the Grand Albaycín wasn’t officially scheduled for January 23, but Motor1 has already managed to get its hands on both the images and a dose of information. The new Grand Albaycín is basically a Mazda MX-5, although coachbuilder Hurtan has largely modeled his own carriage around it. The Grand Albaycín comes as a roadster and as the equivalent of the MX-5 RF. Obviously you will not see the Grand Albaycín on the road in large numbers, as according to the first available information only 30 units are made. The almost Morgan-like creation is, just like the MX-5, available with a 1.5 and a more powerful 2.0 SkyActive petrol engine. More information will follow later this week.
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That Hurtan is a stubborn company, is evident from the Hurtan Author (photos 5 to 12) that the company built earlier, a Chrysler PT Cruiser Cabrio with a carriage laced with classic details. Another special one-off from Hurtan is the Route 44 (photos 13 to 15), a food truck based on the Fiat Ducato, which also has a retro bodywork modeled around it. Then there’s the Vintage, a Jeep Wrangler-based car that looks like it was driven away from the 1930s (photos 16 to 25). You seem to rightly call Hurtan the Spanish equivalent of the equally pronounced Japanese Mitsuoka. By the way, Mitsuoka also has a set of MX-5-based retrofields on offer. The Rock Star, for example, is an MX-5 disguised as a Corvette C2 and the Himiko, launched in 2008 for the first time and completely renewed in 2018, also exists in the Mitsuoka range.