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1936 Bugatti No. 57453 on display at the 1937 Nice Motor Show 1936 Bugatti No. 57453 "La Voiture Noire" in Alsace, France. Source: [10] Also known as "La Voiture Noire" (French for "The Black Car"), this is the second Atlantic that was manufactured. Apart from its first years after production, the car's history and current whereabouts remain ...
Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Bugatti Veyron Interior The transmission is a dual-clutch direct-shift computer-controlled automatic transmission having seven gear ratios , with magnesium paddles behind the steering wheel and a shift time of less than 150 milliseconds, built by Ricardo of England rather than Borg-Warner , who designed the six speed DSG ...
1937 Bugatti Type 57S number 57502 pictured in the garage where it was discovered (undated photograph released by Bonhams) [1]. The Bugatti Type 57S Atalante number 57502, built in 1937 by Automobiles Ettore Bugatti, is one of 43 Bugatti Type 57S made and one of only 17 Type 57S produced with the in-house Atalante coupé coachwork.
Bugatti opened its archives to tell the story of how its first 21st-century car, the Veyron, was born. Ferdinand Karl Piëch (1937-2019), a brilliant engineer who rose to the top of the Volkswagen ...
Bugatti Type 46 (1929–1939) (front door) Bugatti Type 57 (1934–1940) (front door) Buick Roadmaster (rear door on 1st generation), (front door on 2nd generation) Cadillac Ciel (2011) (rear door) Cadillac Eldorado Brougham (1957–1958) (rear door) Cadillac LaSalle (1955) (rear door) Cadillac Series 65 (1937–1938) (rear door on 4-door sedans)
The Bugatti Type 41, better known as the Royale, [1] is a large luxury car built by Bugatti from 1927 to 1933, With a 4.3 m (169.3 in) wheelbase and 6.4 m (21 ft) overall length, it weighs approximately 3,175 kg (7,000 lb) and uses a 12.763 litre (778 cu in) straight-eight engine.
Pierre Veyron enrolled at university to study engineering. Veyron's friend, Albert Divo, convinced Veyron to take up racing and introduced Veyron to André Vagniez, an industrialist who provided financial support to Veyron. Vagniez purchased a Bugatti Type 37A that Veyron drove to his first racing victory, winning the 1930 Geneva Grand Prix. [2]
The 1937 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 14th Grand Prix of Endurance. It took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe on 19 and 20 June 1937. The race was won by Jean-Pierre Wimille and Robert Benoist in Roger Labric's works-supported Bugatti team, in one of the streamlined new Type 57G cars, at a record pace and exceeding 2000 miles in the race for the first time.