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  Bugatti
Ettore Bugatti was born on September 15, 1881 in Brescia[?], Italy.
Ettore Bugatti died on August 21, 1947 and is buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
The best-known collectors of Bugatti were Hans and Fritz Schlumpf, two brothers who ran a textiles business in Mulhouse[?], close to the Bugatti factory.
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 Rembrandt Bugatti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Milan, Italy, into a notably artistic family, Rembrandt Bugatti was the second son of Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940) and his wife, Teresa Lorioli.
Bugatti's love of nature led to him spending a great deal of time at a Paris zoo where he studied the features and movement of exotic animals.
He is interred in the Bugatti family plot at the municipal cemetery in Dorlisheim in the Bas-Rhin département of the Alsace region of France.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rembrandt_Bugatti   (347 words)

  
 Bugatti Royale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Bugatti company was famous for their racing cars which won many races through out history, it quickly transition from the track onto the assembly lines for its consumers.
Bugatti Royale has one of the most powerful and biggest engine to be ever produced in a car.
Bugatti Royale was one of the most celebrated marques of automobile and the one of the most exclusive Italian/ French/ German car producers of all time.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~rlaw/rkeeling/ahuynhbugatti.htm   (560 words)

  
 Bugatti EB 218 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bugatti EB 218 was a concept sedan.
It is a limousine in the vein of the legendary 1926 Bugatti Royale with a 3 meter (118 in) wheelbase and is 212 in (5385 mm) long.
Power is quoted at 555 hp (408 kW) and 479ft·lbf (650 Nm), exactly the same as the Bugatti EB 118 concept car.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bugatti_EB_218   (167 words)

  
 Bugatti Royale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bugatti Type 41, better known as the Royale, is perhaps the most extreme luxury car ever built.
Armand Esders brought it to the U.S. and the car surfaced in a New York junkyard in 1943 and was bought and restored by a General Motors executive, who eventually gave it to the Ford Museum.
Two of the original six including Ettore Bugatti's own Royale are located at Musée National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse, as is the replica Esders Royale.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bugatti_Royale   (479 words)

  
 Bugatti Royale: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bugatti is one of the most celebrated marques of automobile and the one of the most exclusive italian yet also french car producers of all time....
Its cast "Roue Royale" wheels measured 24 in (610 mm) in diameter and were works of art in their own right.
The bugatti type 57 and later variants (including the famous atlantic) was an entirely new design by jean bugatti, son of founder ettore....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/bugatti_royale.htm   (667 words)

  
 Bugatti
It is interesting to note that Bugatti made the leap from 4 cylinders to straight-8 cylinder engines without ever developing a mid-range 6 cylinder unit.
The Bugatti type 41 Royale 'Roadster' was designed and styled in 1932 by Jean Bugatti, the very promising son of the great Ettore.
The name Royale was given to help the car appeal to the rich and famous, and amoung the few that could afford to buy the car was King Alphonso XIII of Spain.
www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au /car_info_bugatti.htm   (1310 words)

  
 The Bugatti Royale
It is rumored that a second chassis numbered 41 100 might already have been under construction at the time of the accident, and merely been given the same chassis number as the damaged car.
Royale or as it became known as later
The 41 150 Berliner d' Voyage like the 41 100, was never sold and remained in the Bugatti family and was used by Ettore Bugatti himself as his personal car until his death in 1947.
www.angelfire.com /me4/zoltancarnovaush/Royale.html   (1895 words)

  
 Bugatti car - find Bugatti auto: new bugatti and used bugatti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bugatti is one of the most celebrated marques of automobile and the one of the most exclusive.
Bugatti is one of the most celebrated marques of automobile and the one of the most exclusive Italian.
Bugatti is one of the most celebrated marques of automobile and one of the most exclusive French car producers of all time.
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 Co-Brand: Driving Today
Born the son of a painter, Bugatti exhibited all the erratic brilliance of a true artist.
Legend has it that Bugatti was chided into creating the Royale by an English noblewoman, who remarked to him that he built the fastest cars in the world, but Rolls-Royce still built the best.
When Ettore Bugatti crashed the car in 1931, apparently falling asleep at the gigantic wheel, it was rebuilt with a Coupe Napoleon body designed by Ettore's son, Jean.
www.drivingtoday.com /wcbs/greatest_cars/bugatti_royale   (1250 words)

  
 Guardian | Bids invited for rare Bugatti Royale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Now the auctioneers Bonhams are organising discreet viewings of the Royale, one of only six in the world, in Japan and inviting interested parties to put in bids within the next six months.
Bugatti launched the Royale after a rich customer praised his sports cars but said Rolls-Royce and Daimler made the most elegant limousines.
Bugatti's family kept their two Royales safe during the second world war by bricking them up.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4296951-103690,00.html   (251 words)

  
 Bugatti Index
The Royale was actually glimmering in Ettore Bugatti's mind as early as April, 1913, when he wrote to his friend, Espanet, that he was designing an eight cylinder with a bore of 100mm.
Jean Bugatti was killed on August 11, 1939 at the age of 30, while testing a Type 57C tank-bodied racer near Molsheim.
Bugatti purchased Lotus from General Motors in August of 1993 and was making plans to go public in the summer of 1994.
www.ktsmotorsportsgarage.com /rodeo98/pages/bugatti.html   (1122 words)

  
 1930 Bugatti Royale Esders
The Bugatti Royale was one of the most opulent and uncompromising cars ever created.
Bugatti stated that he would only sell the car to royalty, although this stipulation was relaxed as production commenced.
The Esders Bugatti Royale pictured had no headlights by request, as Armand Esders of Paris claimed that he never drove after dark.
www.seriouswheels.com /1930-1939/1930-Bugatti-Royale-Esders.htm   (211 words)

  
 LRB | E.S. Turner : A Broad Grin and a Handstand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In the highest class came the Bugatti Royale, a car for rajahs and emperors (though the last Habsburg emperor went into exile in a Gräf und Stift, the Austrian Rolls, the same model in which the Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo).
But the Bugatti that made the name of Hélène Delangle, by then calling herself Hellé Nice, was the sports model, a lean, rakish and most elegant racer which made a noise often compared to that of tearing calico, or a mainsail splitting in a gale.
She was summoned to the Bugatti estate at Molsheim, 'which all French Bugatti drivers looked on as their Camelot', but significantly was not invited to stay under the family roof or even to dine there, being put up in the firm's hostellerie, 'Le Pur Sang' (the Bugatti slogan).
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 Bugattiana Heco @ Karmodels.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Royale berline was the extension of the Coupé Fiacre concept.
Designed by Jean Bugatti to complete the range of the three factory coachwork suggested for the 57, the Atalante Convertible Coupe (chassis n° 57432) was presented in the Paris Motor Show of 1935 under its final form.
It is said that this Bugatti was the official wedding present of the French government to the Shah of Perse (Iran).
www.karmodels.com /heco.php   (2568 words)

  
 On TV : A CARography : Bugatti (322) : Fine Living
The Bugatti was one of the most desirable cars of the 1920s and 30s — and the cars are even more desirable these days.
Its creator, Ettore Bugatti, came from an artistic family, and his cars were grand luxury models as well as lively racers that dominated the racing circuits.
Bugatti's crowning acheivement may have been the Type 35, an 8-cylinder streamlined auto that was very fast but also elegant and beautiful.
www.fineliving.com /fine/making_the_mark/episode/0,1663,FINE_1412_28301,00.html   (156 words)

  
 Classic AutoRAI 99: pre-war cars 2
This special and rare Bugatti is actually a replica; the original bodywork was destructed in 1938 and replaced by a more classic one by coachbuilder Henry Binder.
The French Schlumpf brothers, real Bugatti fanatics, took it upon themselves to recreate this original design of Jean Bugatti, starting out in 1963 with some original mechanical components that were left in the former Bugatti factory.
The reconstructed Royale, that was originally commissioned by French fashion designer Armand Esders in 1930, was first shown to the public in 1990, but not after it was thoroughly checked for correctness by Armand's son Bernard, one of the few people who had seen the original.
www.ritzsite.demon.nl /RAI99_classic_VO/CRAI99_vo2.htm   (500 words)

  
 More than decoration | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Bugatti was noted for actually climbing into cages at those zoos for a closer look at animals he was sculpting.
The melancholy Bugatti, further dispirited because his older brother stole his former fiancee and married her, would later commit suicide.
The Royale, of which only six were made, from 1929 to 1933, is considered one of the world's most collectible autos.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051015/news_lz1d15decor.html   (973 words)

  
 Bugatti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In 1881, Ettore Bugatti, son of an Italian family of artists, is born in Milan.
In 1924, the Bugatti Type 35 is used for the first time in a Grand Prix race.
In 1999, the Volkswagen Group presents the Bugatti EB 218 at the Geneva Automobile Salon and the Bugatti 18/3 "Chiron" at the International Automobile Exhibition (IAA) in Frankfurt.
www.askandrew.com /cars/cars/bugatti/bugattimain.htm   (757 words)

  
 1931 Bugatti Type 41 Royale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I don't believe in rumors, but the word going around the morning of the Concours on Rodeo was that this 1931 Bugatti Royale (ID# 41111) was sold in early June for $17 million, thus making it the priciest automobile in history.
This Royale was once driven 300 miles from Nevada to the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance where it promptly won its class and Best of Show.
This Royale is 1 of 6 made during the production run starting in 1927 and ending in 1933.
www.ktsmotorsportsgarage.com /quiz/quiz13.html   (202 words)

  
 Bugatti: 1999 news
The T41 Royale Coupe de Ville by Binder, as well as a T57 Atlantic (the replica T57SC Atlantic) are exhibited in the the VAG Auto Center on Unter Den Linden in Berlin, Germany.
The Bugatti 18 / 3 "Chiron" is a mid-engined sportscar with the famous 18 cylinder engine, a further development of the one in the Bugatti EB 218.
The Bugatti exhibition in Amsterdam, in the Beurs van Berlage building in the very centre of Amsterdam, was opened on Friday December 18, by Giorgetto Giugiaro of Italdesign, designer of the EB112 and the recent EB118.
www.bugattipage.com /1999news.htm   (2805 words)

  
 Inductees
The Bugatti name soon became known throughout the world for automated and accurate manufacturing processes combined with exquisite artisanship.
During the 1930s, the Bugatti Royale Type-41 became one of the most sought-after luxury cars of all time.
Bugatti cars also developed a fine reputation in the field of auto racing.
www.automotivehalloffame.org /honors/index.php?cmd=view&id=175&type=inductees   (238 words)

  
 Car Collector Magazine -- Web Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The leading coachbuilders on two continents catered to the various Bugatti designed and built chassis for over 40 years, and created what could well be the most beautiful automobiles the world has ever known.
In the story of the automobile, Ettore Bugatti was one of history’s most colorful characters, someone about whom tales could be told and whose life was an open book scripted in a dogmatic and flamboyant style.
There were 52 different Bugatti models produced over the years ranging from Grand Prix racecars – the famous Type 35 – to the most luxurious and costly automobiles ever built, the Bugatti Royale.
www.carcollector.com /cover_detail.cfm?StoryID=2560   (251 words)

  
 253 MPH and Still a Little Late
A superlative on four wheels, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is not only the world's fastest production car but also the most expensive: $1.25 million before taxes and richly deserved gas-guzzler penalties.
Revered among aficionados, Bugatti dominated Grand Prix racing for a time between the world wars and built sinfully beautiful works of transportation art, including the Type 57SC Atlantic and Bugatti Royale, which holds the Guinness record for the highest price paid for a car — $15 million.
Bugatti has said it will build no more than 300 of the cars, optimally 50 to 80 per year.
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 Bugatti car - find Bugatti auto. Offers: new bugatti and used bugatti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bugatti Automobiles SAS This is the official website of Bugatti Automobiles SAS, luxury motor car manufacturer in Molsheim (France).
Bugatti is one of the most celebrated marques of automobile and the one of the most exclusive Italian car producers of all time.
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 Forbes.com - Magazine Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This Bugatti Type 41 Royale was the brainchild of Ettore Bugatti--and also a hugely expensive misstep in the history of his firm.
The contract never materialized, but Bugatti felt he could use half that engine, a straight eight, to form one of the most amazing luxury cars in history.
The Type 41 Royale engine had massive displacement: 12.7 liters, or over 700 cubic inches, roughly twice the size of most of the largest production V-8s that would be built by Detroit four decades later.
www.forbes.com /2001/11/05/1105vow_print.html   (415 words)

  
 Musee Nationale d'Automobile (Collection Schlumpf)
In addition to the Bugatti's there are also quite a lot of Mercs, some Hispano-Suiza's, Isotta-Fraschini's, Ferrari's, Rolls-Royces, etc. although the emphasis is necessarily on representatives of French marks.
The Limousine and the Royale Coupe have the same engine specs: a straight eight of 12.763 litres giving 300 cv and a maximum speed of 200 km per hour.
The Royale is from 1929 and was the personal car of Ettore Bugatti and was designed by his brother Jean at the age of 20.
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 Henry Ford Museum at The Henry Ford
Bugatti - even in the select circle of exclusive and legendary automobile marques, this name has a special ring to it.
The synthesis of art and technology in automobile construction as created in the work of Ettore Bugatti and his son Jean has never been surpassed.
It is a complete work of art with which, as ambassadors of refined culture, owners identify very strongly.
www.hfmgv.org /museum/aal/bugatti.asp   (109 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | From the archive: The Bugatti Royale road to ruin
From the archive: The Bugatti Royale road to ruin
On the 25,000 sq yds of floor space covered with immaculate red carpet were 584 veteran cars, all in perfect running order.
Bugatti Royales sell for as much as £70,000 each.
www.guardian.co.uk /fromthearchive/story/0,,1726113,00.html   (458 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Roaring from the '20s   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Bugatti T-35s of the late '20s and T-59s of the mid '30s won on the Grand Prix circuit.
Bugatti developed engines that also powered the world's first high-speed rail system – the French train, also designed by Bugatti, set a speed record of 122 mph in 1934 – and was about to bid for the world air speed record in a Bugatti-designed plane when World War II broke out.
The Bugattis will be running Saturday and Sunday in the Speed Festival's Group One, which also features three early 1930s Alfa-Romeos, the Bugattis' main competition on the international racing circuit.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20031009-9999_z1s9motors.html   (1349 words)

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