Hispano-Suiza coming back from the dead in 2019

It will make -- you guessed it -- electric cars.

Spanish car-maker Hispano-Suiza will return from the dead at the 2019 Geneva auto show. The company -- which stopped making cars in the 1950s -- will leap back onto the automotive stage to make high-end electric cars.

The brand published a dark teaser image to give the world a preview of its upcoming new model. We see the curvaceous fenders of a coupe and a low roof line that gently flows towards the rear end of the car. The design channels Hispano-Suiza's heritage; in its heyday, the company was known for making aerodynamic, forward-thinking cars.

British magazine Autocar reports the revival project is being funded by a Spanish conglomerate named Grup Peralada. Production will take place in Barcelona. Some of the heirs of the company's founders are involved in the project, too.

"When Hispano-Suiza started, it built [an] electric car, but the prototype was never industrially manufactured. Now, 119 years later, in March 2019, Hispano-Suiza has its first 100% electric car," said Suqué Mateu, the great-grandson of one of the company's founders.

Additional details about the yet-unnamed Hispano-Suiza will trickle out over the coming months. While nothing is official yet, we expect the car that will make its debut in Geneva will arrive as a limited-edition model with a price tag pegged well into six-digit territory. It's too early to tell whether it will be available in the United States.

This isn't the first time someone has tried to revive Hispano-Suiza. The name appeared at the 2010 Geneva auto show on a low-slung coupe powered by a V10 engine borrowed from the Audi R8. At the time, Hispano Suiza (it dropped the hyphen for the 2010 concept) announced plans to make up to 25 cars priced at nearly a million dollars each. These plans never came to fruition.