Located in the mid-west of England, Prescott Estate is home to The Bugatti Owners’ Club, a unique organization that houses...
The Occitanie region of southern France recently welcomed some special visitors, all born in the country’s northeastern region. Ready to...
The first of the six existing Type 59 Sports racing cars – produced back in the 1930s – still exists today in near-original condition and is considered an invaluable surviving specimen of Bugatti’s successful racing history. Scuffed leather seats and a steering wheel bearing the battle scars of racing drivers’...
Tight corners, street canyons, and the Mediterranean Sea a hair’s breadth away. No street race is more iconic than the...
Artistic talent runs deeply throughout the Bugatti family. The art world views Rembrandt Bugatti – brother of company founder Ettore...
Eight cylinders, a displacement of two liters, 100 PS and speeds up to 145 km/h – the figures of a true sports car for the road of 100 years ago. Bugatti rolled out the Type 30 in 1922 as its latest production automobile. In addition to its increased power, the...
On January 15, 113 years ago, renowned automobile designer and son of Ettore Bugatti, Jean Bugatti, was born. Jean’s passion...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has announced a new exhibit that explores the world of hypercars, the fastest and most exclusive...
The event was the Gran Premio delle Vetturette. On the Circuito di Montichiari, race cars zipped back and forth between the towns of Montichiari and Brescia. Tires screeched and dust was thrown up into the air. There were 60 laps to be completed, each one 17.3 kilometers long. This was...
On Sunday 15th August, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will mark its 70th anniversary. Bugatti will celebrate its involvement from...
The engines roar, pushing the rev limiters to their limits. When the light turns green, the racecars accelerate at full...
The French Grand Prix; Reims, July 1, 1956 Bugatti brought two, new experimental Grand Prix cars, the Type 251, with transverse, straight-8 motors. Maurice Trintignant started the race in one, it lasted but 18 laps and was never seen again at a Grand Prix. Trintignant, in the ski hat with...
A combination of tenacity, dreams and boundless passion always prevails. No one knows this better than Romano Artioli. For decades,...
Tight bends, steep slopes and narrow street canyons. No race in the Grand Prix circus arouses as much passion among...
A legend is turning 100. In 1921, the Bugatti Type 13 “Brescia“ heralded a new trend in motorsport. The open-top sports car brought the era of large, heavy racing cars to an end. The lightweight body, superior chassis and powerful engine made the Type 13 a racecar that was way...
In the 1950s, an ultimately failed attempt to revive the Bugatti name resulted in the creation of six Type 101...
In 1938, Ettore Bugatti set about designing a revolutionary air racer to compete in the 1939 Deutsch de la Meurthe...
The Bugatti 57SC has long been coveted by automotive historians and enthusiasts as one of the ultimate expressions of pre-war automotive design and engineering, with a precious few chassis originally constructed and each example appreciated as exceptional and bespoke. Some versions of the 57SC have achieved stratospheric desirability and value...
Many successful Bugatti racing drivers of the “golden era” were former pilots and perhaps not surprisingly many famous pilots were...
Once again the Fountain Gardens at Hampton Court Palace played host to 50 of the world’s rarest cars for the...
This is the tale of a wonderful old racing machine, now fast approaching its 100th birthday but still enjoying an active competition life in the hands of vintage racing enthusiast and collector Andrew Larson. It’s a 1927 Bugatti Type 37A Grand Prix racer, chassis number 37265, and it has been...
“A technical product is not perfect until it is aesthetically impeccable as well,” Ettore Bugatti once said. And the company...
He simply adored Bugatti: Fritz Schlumpf had to own as many of the 30 vehicles as possible because he wanted...
With the Type 41 Royale, in 1926, Bugatti presented the strongest, largest and most luxurious automobile in the world, characterized by then unimaginable power and opulent equipment. For Ettore Bugatti, the Royale was the culmination of his creation. A vehicle that knew no competitors in terms of performance, quality and...
A radiator in the shape of a horseshoe and a bright blue finish – everytime one of the striking Bugatti...
Mirrored sunglasses and a big grin. Andy Wallace is always in a good mood when he arrives at work in...
More than 40 historic Bugatti models from different eras gathered in front of the Château in Molsheim, at the heart of Alsace, France. This is where Ettore Bugatti founded his famous company 110 years ago. At the Grande Fête – the major anniversary celebration held Sept. 7–8 – modern-day Bugatti...
Every year the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance offers a spectacular showing of amazing cars. I am fortunate to get a...
Bugatti is the first manufacturer to break the 300-mile-an-hour barrier. On a test track in Germany, a near production prototype...
There is a saying, “an apple never falls far from its tree” and similarly a carrossier needs strong antecedents. The Grümmer family had been in the saddling and coachbuilding business long before the creation of the Grümmer company in Clichy, France, in 1924. The oldest traceable origins of the family...
