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1 Under Ettore Bugatti
1 Under Ettore Bugatti
This article is about the historic car maker. For the malised the transfer of Alsace from Germany to France,
current successor, see Bugatti Automobiles.
Bugatti was able to obtain, at the last minute, a stand at the
For other uses, see Bugatti (disambiguation).
15th Paris motor show in October 1919.[1] He exhibited
three light cars, all of them closely based on their prewar equivalents, and each tted with the same overhead
Coordinates: 483132N 073001E / 48.52556N
camshaft 4-cylinder 1,368cc engine with four valves per
7.50028E
cylinder.[1] Smallest of the three was a "Type 13" with a
Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a French car racing body (constructed by Bugatti themselves) and usmanufacturer of high-performance automobiles, founded ing a chassis with a 2,000 mm (78.7 in) wheelbase.[1] The
in 1909 in the then German city of Molsheim, Alsace by others were a "Type 22" and a "Type 23" with wheelbases
Italian-born Ettore Bugatti. Bugatti cars were known for of 2,250 and 2,400 mm (88.6 and 94.5 in) respectively.[1]
their design beauty (Ettore Bugatti was from a family of
artists and considered himself to be both an artist and
constructor) and for their many race victories. Famous
Bugattis include the Type 35 Grand Prix cars, the Type
41 Royale, the Type 57 Atlantic and the Type 55 1.2 Racing successes
sports car.
The death of Ettore Bugatti in 1947 proved to be the end The company also enjoyed great success in early Grand
for the marque, and the death of his son Jean Bugatti Prix motor racing: in 1929 a privately entered Bugatti
in 1939 ensured there was not a successor to lead the won the rst ever Monaco Grand Prix. Racing success
factory. No more than about 8,000 cars were made. culminated with driver Jean-Pierre Wimille winning the
The company struggled nancially, and released one last 24 hours of Le Mans twice (in 1937 with Robert Benoist
model in the 1950s, before eventually being purchased and 1939 with Pierre Veyron).
for its airplane parts business in the 1960s. In the 1990s, Bugatti cars were extremely successful in racing. The litan Italian entrepreneur revived it as a builder of lim- tle Bugatti Type 10 swept the top four positions at its rst
ited production exclusive sports cars. Today, the name race. The 1924 Bugatti Type 35 is probably the most sucis owned by German automobile manufacturing group cessful racing car of all time, with over 2,000 wins. The
Volkswagen.
Type 35 was developed by Bugatti with master engineer
and racing driver Jean Chassagne who also drove it in the
cars rst ever Grand Prix in 1924 Lyon.[2] Bugattis swept
to victory in the Targa Florio for ve years straight from
1 Under Ettore Bugatti
1925 through 1929. Louis Chiron held the most podiums
Founder Ettore Bugatti was born in Milan, Italy, and the in Bugatti cars, and the modern marque revival Bugatti
automobile company that bears his name was founded Automobiles S.A.S. named the 1999 Bugatti 18/3 Chiron
in 1909 in Molsheim located in the Alsace region which concept car in his honour. But it was the nal racing sucwas part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1919. The cess at Le Mans that is most rememberedJean-Pierre
company was known both for the level of detail of its en- Wimille and Pierre Veyron won the 1939 race with just
gineering in its automobiles, and for the artistic way in one car and meagre resources.
which the designs were executed, given the artistic nature
of Ettores family (his father, Carlo Bugatti (18561940),
was an important Art Nouveau furniture and jewelry designer).
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6 MODERN REVIVALS
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Railcar
Ettore Bugatti also designed a successful motorised railcar, the Autorail (Autorail Bugatti).[5]
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A family tragedy
The death of Ettore Bugattis son, Jean Bugatti, on 11 August 1939 marked a turning point in the companys for- 4.2 1956 Formula One
tunes. Jean died while testing a Type 57 tank-bodied race
car near the Molsheim factory.
(key)
Design
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5 Attempts at revival
The company attempted a comeback under Roland
Bugatti in the mid-1950s with the mid-engined Type 251
race car. Designed with help from Gioacchino Colombo,
the car failed to perform to expectations and the companys attempts at automobile production were halted.
In the 1960s, Virgil Exner designed a Bugatti as part of
his "Revival Cars" project. A show version of this car
was actually built by Ghia using the last Bugatti Type 101
chassis, and was shown at the 1965 Turin Motor Show.
Finance was not forthcoming, and Exner then turned his
attention to a revival of Stutz.
Bugatti continued manufacturing airplane parts and was
sold to Hispano-Suiza, also a former auto maker turned
aircraft supplier, in 1963. Snecma took over HispanoSuiza in 1968. After acquiring Messier, Snecma merged
Messier and Bugatti into Messier-Bugatti in 1977.
Gallery
1913 Bugatti 22, 3 seat Vinet
6 Modern revivals
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Bugatti presented a prototype large saloon called the
EB112 in 1993.
Perhaps the most famous Bugatti EB110 owner was
seven-time Formula One World Champion racing driver
Michael Schumacher who purchased an EB110 in 1994.
Schumacher sold his EB110, which had been repaired after a severe 1994 crash, to Modena Motorsport, a Ferrari
service and race preparation garage in Germany.
View of the assembly line building of the Bugatti Automobili factory in Campogalliano
By the time the EB110 came to market, the North American and European economies were in recession. Poor
economic conditions forced the company to fail and operations ceased in September 1995. A model specic to
the US market called the Bugatti America was in the
preparatory stages when the company ceased operations.
Bugattis liquidators sold Lotus Cars to Proton of
Malaysia. German rm Dauer Racing purchased the
EB110 licence and remaining parts stock in 1997 in order
to produce ve more EB110 SS vehicles. These ve SS
versions of the EB110 were greatly rened by Dauer. The
Campogalliano factory was sold to a furniture-making
company, which subsequently collapsed before moving in, leaving the building unoccupied.[10] After Dauer
stopped producing cars in 2011, Toscana-Motors GmbH
of Germany purchased the remaining parts stock from
Dauer.
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Benedini, Giampaolo; Artioli, Romano. Un progetto nello spirito Bugatti"; Quasi un sacrilegio
(PDF). Bugatti in Italia; Schio, Milan, 12 November 2011. Associazione Italiana per la storia
dell'automobile, conference 100 (in Italian) (AISA).
9 External links
Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S.
Bugatti bibliography
See also
Muse National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse,
home of the Schlumpf Collection of Bugatti cars
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