“A technical product is not perfect until it is aesthetically impeccable as well,” Ettore Bugatti once said. And the company...
With the Type 41 Royale, in 1926, Bugatti presented the strongest, largest and most luxurious automobile in the world, characterized...
After Ettore Bugatti’s death his family decided to keep his car-making company alive. Their creation of the Type 101 was a daring wager on the appetite of the post-war world for a grand tourer in the image of the pre-war Type 57 Bugatti. If there were a 1930s equivalent of...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
The Bugatti name is widely known in the automotive world for the selection of exquisite roadcars and racecars produced by...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda suffers life-threatening burns when he crashes his Ferrari (1976). 2 Brian Redman wins the IMSA sports car race at Portland, Oregon, in a Lola T600 (1981). 3 Ludwig Heimrath wins the USAC-sanctioned sports car...
The Maserati name meant nothing as the First World War began to wipe out the youth of Europe in the...
Gobbato’s Fate Dear Editor, In the article about Vittorio Jano, in your June issue, Robert Newman stated that the 1945...
I was very interested to read James Beckett’s profile last month on the Martini F3 car, if for no other reason than the Martini marque is one that I have long heard of, yet knew nearly nothing about. One of my many naïve assumptions (that James was able to dispel)...
One day in 1923, Ettore Bugatti met Bartolomeo “Meo” Costantini, an encounter that would change both their lives. The suave...
It would be interesting to ask any historic car enthusiast what picture enters their minds when the Bugatti marque is...
VR: Tell me how you first became enamored with cars. Like so many of us, I would imagine you were bit by the bug when you were a child? PM: Well, I did get bitten by the bug probably when I was 7 or 8 years old. Something like that....
The subject of this month’s VR Profile, Bugatti, is one of the legendary names of automotive history, and this link...
One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic Art Deco French....
Mention the words “Rudi” and “Mercedes” and what comes to mind? Chances are good it will be images of famed driver Rudolf Caracciola wheeling a giant prewar SSK or W154 “Silver Arrow” around some exotic circuit, like the Nürburgring or Tripoli. Yet, there was another Rudi at Mercedes-Benz who arguably...
Woolf Barnato is the man with a perfect score. He entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times and...
1924 Bugatti Type 13 While many racing cars of the Edwardian period and the early 1920s and 1930s were huge—behemoths to some, especially on dirt-covered roads—there were equally a corresponding number that were miniscule in comparison, many almost fragile in appearance. At first some of these small cars suffered ridicule...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
There has been much rejoicing over the return to F1 next year of Team Lotus and I cannot understand what...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man pursued his passion for speed and technology by building cars for competition. These early innovators belong to an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, and genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing...
1 George Follmer drives a Ford-powered Lotus 70 to victory in the L&M Continental Formula A race at St. Jovite,...
A rare piece of automotive history will go on the block with no reserve as the 1936 Bugatti Type 57C...
Not for the first time, one of motor sport’s most successful cars was a huge flop when it made its debut. In this case, it was the Bugatti Tipo 35, six of which were driven on the public roads from Molsheim to Lyons in late July 1924, to compete in...
In 1909, Ettore Bugatti set up a factory, in Molsheim, France, for the production of his own line of automobiles....
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1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” Across the annals of automotive history, few families can lay claim to more engineering genius than that of Rudolfo and Carolina Maserati. Between 1880 and 1898, Carolina gave birth to no less than six sons, Carlo, Bindo, Alfieri, Mario, Ettore, and Ernesto. All but one...
