Showing posts with label Bugatti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bugatti. Show all posts

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Bugatti Veyron


The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 rear mid-engine supercar. It is the most expensive car in the modern world at $ 2,600,000. The Super Sport model is the fastest street legal car in the world, with a maximum of 431.07 hours kilometer (mile 267.85 hours). The original version has a top speed of 408.00 hours kilometer (mile 253.52 hours).
Designed and developed by the German Volkswagen group and Bugatti Automobiles SAS produced at its headquarters in Château St Jean in Molsheim (Alsace, France) was chief designer of the Veyron's Hartmut Warkuss, and the road was by Jozef Kaban of Volkswagen, with the form a large part of the works led by the former engineer and now Peterbilt performed Bugatti Engineering head Wolfgang Schreiber.

The car after the French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti company name. It was named Car of the decade (2000-2009) of the BBC TV show Top Gear.

Special models were produced, including two targa tops. In December 2010, stakeholders began Bugatti allows for the exterior and interior colors of the Veyron 16.4 configurator application to adapt by using the brand's official website.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Friday, February 18, 2011

The Schlumpf Collection is on display in France at the National Museum in Mulhouse, the Cité de l’Automobile



The Schlumpf Collection may be the most prestigious car collection in the world. This is demonstrated by the two of the only 6 made Bugatti Royales, including the famous Coupé Napoléon, the 150 Bugatti, Hispano-Suiza, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Maserati, Maybach, Mercedes models, etc.
One of the Royales they acquired when they purchased the Shakespeare collection, in 1964, which was a total of 30 Bugattis and a gallery of those being loaded on a Illinois train is here: http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/2010/june/en-dag-i-illinois-1964.html
It was in a former Mulhouse woollen mill, with its typically 19th century architecture, that Fritz Schlumpf established his fabulous collection of 437 cars belonging to 97 different brands. With part of on display at the Cité de l’Automobile, it is certainly a must see if you get to France
The collection was seized by the workers employed by the Schlumpf brothers, who had collected for years, and topped off their collection when Hispano Suiza needed to liquidate many of the Bugatti assets in 1963 after having purchased the Bugatti company. The Schlumpfs puchased Ettore Bugatti’s personal Bugatti Royale and many original spares and patterns—over the strong objections of the managing director and Roland Bugatti, Ettore Bugatti’s surviving son.
In 1971 the union of workers that had been restoring the cars, building restaurants, and a hotel that would have housed guests to the collection, went on strike, and years later the French government seized all of the Schlumpf assetts, including 437 vehicles. The strike was part of what forced the brothers to flee to Switzerland, echoing Bugatti's flight to Paris in the 1937 strike. Read all about it http://www.sportscardigest.com/schlumpf-collection-profile-and-photo-gallery

Bugatti Royale



Luckily the drivers all are standing next to the cars, it gives the behemoth proportion. I'd love to see one of these drive on a freeway to see how small the normal everyday Hondas and Nissans, Fords and Chevys look in comparison
For a thorough gallery and explanation of the various coachbuilt bodies http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/2009/may/det-mest-prestigefyllda-pa-hjul-genom-tiderna.html