About Bugatti
Bugatti has lived several lives. Ettore Bugatti founded the company in Molsheim, Alsace, in 1909, and between the wars it built some of the most beautiful and successful machines ever made, from the Type 35 racer that won hundreds of races to the Type 57SC Atlantic and the colossal Royale. The firm faded after the Second World War, enjoyed a brief Italian revival with the EB110 in the early 1990s, and was bought by Volkswagen in 1998, which set out to make it the fastest and most exclusive car brand on Earth.
The result was the Veyron, launched in 2005 with a quad-turbocharged W16, more than 1,000 horsepower and a top speed above 250 mph, all in a car civilized enough to drive across town. The Chiron followed with 1,500 metric horsepower, and a modified Chiron Super Sport 300+ became the first hypercar to pass 300 mph. A procession of special editions, from the Divo to the one-off La Voiture Noire, kept the W16 busy before it bowed out with the Bolide and Mistral.
In 2021 Bugatti joined Croatian electric pioneer Rimac in a new company, Bugatti Rimac, led by Mate Rimac, with Porsche holding a large stake that it has since moved to sell. Its first car under the new regime is the Tourbillon, which replaces the W16 with a naturally aspirated V16 and three electric motors, wrapped around a cockpit with watch-inspired analog gauges. It competes for a sliver of buyers who might also consider a Koenigsegg or Pagani, and it remains one of the most recognizable badges in the world.
This page follows reveals, deliveries, testing, special editions, ownership news, executive moves, auction sales and the occasional misadventure of a Chiron on a public street. Watch for Tourbillon customer cars, possible lighter or more focused derivatives, the growing value of the Veyron on the classic market, and how Bugatti navigates life after Volkswagen ownership. The brand's biggest test is the one it has faced since 1998: proving that each new flagship can feel like an event, not merely a faster version of the last one, while keeping its small Molsheim workshop busy and its famously demanding clients happy.