The amazing story of Bugatti and her outstanding speed

The amazing story of Bugatti and her outstanding speed
Founder of Bugatti is Ettore Bugatti and its 1909. First Bugatti was developed at Molsheim, Alsace city which belonged to Germany then. Company of Bugatti is in France but the founder Ettore Bugatti was an Italian.

Ettore Bugatti was born in 15th of September 1881 at Milan, Italy. He liked to motor car production in his early stages. He joined to a motor bicycle manufacturing company named Prinetti & Stucchi in 1897. He manufactured his first car in 1900. A brother of him called Gulinelli also helped for this. He was awarded in an international exhibition in Milan. In 1901 he make an agreement with a motor car manufacturing company. He was very young in at age and his father was signed to the agreement. There he manufactured another several motor cars. But his choice to develop a sports car. Company not agreed to this and therefore he quit the company and joined with Emi Mathias company. He did not work there at least 2 years and quit. In 1909 he started his own business from the name of Bugatti.


Bugatti manufactured 5 motor cars till 1910 and all were sold. In this period his partner Ernest Fredrich compete with Bugatti car for motor races and won the second place at French Grand Prix competition. From this they made an agreement with famous Peugeot company and started to manufacture Babe Peugeot motor car.

In 1921 Bugatti won the first, second, third and fourth places at the Voiturettes Grand Prix motor rally in Italy and it was a historic moment. The Bugatti type 35 car which was manufactured in 1924 had won over 2000 races. Bugatti's son Jean Bugatti also joined to the company in this time.

But unfortunately his son Jean Bugatti dead from an accident in a vehicle testing in 1939. When begins the second world war all of the Bugatti business was fallen down. After the war he started again and manufactured about 5 Type 73 cars. Ettore Bugatti died in 1947 and again the business fallen down. Another son of Bugatti, Roland Bugatti try to step up it but failed.

In 1987 an Italian named Romano Artioli took the Bugatti name and Bugatti started to come back. He formed the Bugatti Automobili SpA company. He manufactured Bugatti EB110 joining with the manufactures of Lamborghii Miura and Lamborghini Countach, Paolo Stanzani and Marcello Gandini.

In 1998 Volkswagen company of German took the Bugatti name and manufactured several cars. They introduced Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 in 2005 and famous among sport lovers. Bugatti Veyron has manufactured in 4 types up to now. Those are, Bugatti Veyron (2005-2011) with maximum speed of 407.12 km/h (252.97 mph), Bugtti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport (2009-2015) with maximum speed of 369 km/h (229 mph), Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport (2010-2011) with maximum speed of 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph) and Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse (2011-2015) with maximum speed of 375 km/h (233 mph).

In addition there are different finishes according to the request of buyers. There were about 450 Bugatti Veyrons manufactured for a decade. There are two Guinness World Records up to now. Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport car is the fastest car in street-legal and the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse is the fastest two seat vehicle (roadster) of the world.
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