Bugatti Cars: Illustrated History Books & Guides (1/2)

Bugatti Supercars - A century of genius

This book presents a fresh view of Bugatti by highlighting key design milestones of its most famous supercars. It follows the brand's development from its early role as a pioneer of the "supercar" to its current status as a builder of modern "hypercars." Selected models trace this path, linking historic vehicles with the latest innovations and offering a clear overview for both experienced enthusiasts and new readers.

Covering more than a century, Bugatti's history brings together engineering skill, artistic design, and distinctive style. The cars stand out for their craftsmanship and performance. The book includes striking photographs, many published for the first time, and provides an updated visual and written record of Bugatti's lasting legacy.

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Bugatti - The Italian Decade

When, in 1987, Romano Artioli and his high-profile associates - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Paolo Stanzani and Jean-Marc Borel - decided to reincarnate Bugatti, one of the most famous automotive marques of all time, they had in Ferruccio Lamborghini, Paolo Stanzani and design legend Marcello Gandini, three of the most prominent names in the Italian supercar firmament, suggesting a bright future for the marque.
Eight years later, Artioli's dream was over. Bankruptcy was declared, the factory was closed, and the beautiful campus reduced to a ghost building.

Not even a decade had passed between the first germs of an idea and the end in 1995, yet there are enough ingredients for an exciting action-filled story: discord, rivalry, pride, power, money, prestige, stars, crises and a dramatic end.
What happened? Why did it happen? "Bugatti: The Italian Decade" answers all that and more.

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Bugatti - A legend tied to Italy / Una leggenda legata all'Italia

The legendary Bugatti make has taken off again thanks to the boost provided by the Volkswagen Group. This Group has promoted the making of sensational supercars, which, in terms of features and performance, are by far the most unique cars in the world, ranging from the various versions of the EB 16.4 Veyron on through to the Chiron, which with its 1500 bhp easily reaches 420 km/h, and the more recent Divo at a price of five million euros.

The book begins with an exclusive, long interview with Stephan Winkelmann, President of Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S., who explains the characteristics and the motivating force behind the most amazing brand in the automotive industry.
This is a sensational project symbolically linked with the previous period of management of the Bugatti brand, when through the efforts of the Italian entrepreneur Romano Artioli, the brand underwent a brilliant relaunch, which enabled production of the EB 110 sports car in the futuristic Campogalliano factory. In the mid-1990s, the Bugatti EB 110 was the fastest production car in the world.

Much of the book also deals with Bugatti cars in the days of Ettore Bugatti, who was born in 1881 in Milan and still stands tall amongst the greatest automobile engineers and entrepreneurs. Bugatti cars were meant to be astonishing because of their ingenious features and performance, but also because of their beauty and character.

Retracing the historical transitions of the Bugatti brand is a sort of total immersion in the most exclusive world of motor racing, with continuous transitions between technology, lifestyles, design and the history of costume and fashion.

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Bugatti Blue : Prescott and the Spirit of Bugatti

The British have had an affair with Bugatti for decades and perhaps Prescott is the place where that have relationship has reached its highlights across the decades. This collection of photographic images captures the brilliance of Bugatti design amid Bugatti blue at Prescott's wonderful natural amphitheatre in the Cotswolds - to which visitors, Bugatti owners, enthusiasts and addicts have travelled from all over the world for decades.
The author is a designer, photographer and writer who has spent years around old cars and years visiting Prescott and the Bugatti Owners Club.

In this collection of photographs, much of the masterworks of Molsheim are captured in action and at rest at the altar of British Bugatti enthusiasm. Herein are moments and memories of old Bugattis, their owners and drivers, and other vintage and classic cars in action at this revered location.

This new collection of stunning images, created over a number of years, allied to a concise narrative and with assistance from Bugatti experts, should provide the Bugatti and vintage car enthusiast with something new to accompany their own memories of Bugatti amid a record of Prescott and the Bugatti Owners Club events and VSSC days.

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Bugatti - The Designer : the inventions, ideas, thoughts & follies of Ettore Bugatti

This book is about Ettore Bugatti's extraordinary mind devoted to a multitude of inventions, designs, modifications, innovations, ideas, hobbies and follies. The object of this publication is an attempt to try and cover a very diverse and wide volume of work in the design field and includes Cars, Railway, Marine, Aircraft and Machine Tools.

Contents include: The Bugatti Heritage 1676-2008; List of inventions, designs, ideas and follies in alphabetical order; Molsheim Electrics; Horses and Carriages; Machine Tool Patents; Aeronautics; Railways; Marine; Automotive.
Appendices: Biography of Giovanni Segantini; Details of the Bugatti Aircraft Assoc.; Details of the Bugatti Trust; Details of the Bugatti Owners Club.

It will be seen that some of the information, photographs and technical drawings are from earlier times and are sometimes not of the reproductive quality we would have liked - many of them taken from newspapers and magazines initially printed on newsprint quality paper and even from carbon copies or photocopies. It is the information and photographs that we believe to be of interest which we feel is reason enough for inclusion in this book.

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Bugatti - The Man and the Marque

A rigorously researched and definitive book - the first major re-appraisal of artist engineer Ettore Bugatti and his extraordinary cars to appear since 1963. He built only 7, 800 cars between 1910 and 1939, but these are much sought-after today.

This book charts the beginnings of the famous marque, the cars that brought it fame from the exquisite Type 35 to the massive Royale, only six of which were ever built, and chronicles the make's revival which began in Italy in 1988.

Comprehensively illustrated with over 300 photographs, this book is a unique source of reference and winner of the Society of Automotive Historians' Cugnot Award.

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Grand Prix Bugatti

The Grand Prix Bugatti has a strong claim to a book all of its own, with its enviable record of racing successes, its superb craftsmanship and, for the more mechanically minded, the great variety of its ingenious design features unique to the creations of the great artist designer, Ettore Bugatti.

"Grand Prix Bugatti", originally written in 1968 by the preeminent Bugatti expert H.G. Conway, is devoted to the racing Types 35, 37, 43 and 51, in their various forms, and describes their anatomy in detail and their racing achievements.

A schedule of individual models, in chassis number order, gives type number, factory date, brief history and where known, the owner (as of 1968); the appendices include tabulated specifications of the types. Bugatti owners will also find much practical information to help them maintain their historic cars.
Extensively illustrated with contemporaneous racing photographs and technical diagrams, "Grand Prix Bugatti" is a classic reference book for anyone interested in the history of Bugatti racing and competition cars.

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Bugatti - Panorama illustré des modèles

Ettore Bugatti, born in Italy but deeply connected to France, created a legendary car brand. However, war and the loss of his talented son prevented the continuation of his work.

Thirty years after production ceased under his direction, a group of Italian industrialists attempted to revive the brand. However, a recession and internal disagreements led to the project's failure. Volkswagen later took over Bugatti and developed exceptional hypercars.

This updated second edition traces the history of this iconic French brand. A must-have for Bugatti collectors and enthusiasts.

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Bugatti, journal d'une sage (2ème édition) (Collection Prestige)

At the beginning of the 21st century, the Bugatti company produces the most sophisticated automobiles in the entire world production. They confusingly combine the advantages of avant-garde technology and the indescribable charm of timeless craftsmanship.
The firm was resurrected in 1998 under the aegis of the Volkswagen Group after experiencing the turmoil inherent in the movements of the century.

Ettore Bugatti designed his first automobiles at the dawn of the 20th century by putting his unique vision at the service of several industrialists. Then his individualism led him to create his own company in 1910.

Surrounded by loyal accomplices, soon joined by his son Jean, Ettore Bugatti wrote a legend that lasted two decades, between the two world wars.

It is these unique destinies, these destinies recomposed by chance of dramas and brilliant strokes, that this "Journal" recounts day after day. The brand's trajectory is here punctuated by six acts corresponding to the major periods of a human as well as industrial adventure.

Pages of the book "Bugatti, journal d'une sage (2ème édition)"

Summary:

Act I: Bugatti before Bugatti
Act II: The rise, 1910-1930
Act III: The reaction, 1931-1947
Act IV: In parentheses, 1948-1986
Act V: The Italian adventure, 1986-1997
Act VI: Second renaissance, 1998 to today.

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Art of Bugatti

As a rule, a car manufacturer is either a constructor or a designer, but Ettore Bugatti was both. His sports cars founded a myth that lives on today under the direction of the Volkswagen Group. Bugatti set standards right from his first car.
But Bugatti was more than "just" a car manufacturer; his cars became milestones in racing history and icons of car design.

In this volume, illustrated with unique pictures, René Staud and Bernd Ostmann tell the story of the cult brand - from its beginnings to the rescue of the brand by Volkswagen.

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