{"id":6208,"date":"2026-10-28T13:18:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.motozite.com\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2026-10-28T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:48:59","slug":"history-of-bugatti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.motozite.com\/history-of-bugatti\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Bugatti: The Name That Outlived Every Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bugatti was founded by Ettore Bugatti, an Italian-born engineer, who set up his own car company in a disused tannery in Molsheim, Alsace, at the end of 1909. Over the next 117 years the name went from the most successful racing car of the 1920s to a near-total stop in the 1950s, a short-lived Italian revival in the 1990s, Volkswagen ownership from 1998, and the 1,000hp Veyron. In September 2026 it changed hands again: <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/motozite.com\/pre-owned\/porsche\/all\">Porsche<\/a><\/span><\/strong> sold its 45 percent stake, leaving Mate Rimac&#8217;s Rimac Group in control alongside a HOF Capital-led investor group. Few car brands have had this many owners. Fewer still have kept their reputation through all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is the thread worth following. Bugatti&#8217;s history is less a story of one company than of a name so strong that every new owner bet on it, and of what each one did with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bugatti timeline at a glance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Milestone<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>1881<\/td><td>Ettore Bugatti born in Milan<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1909<\/td><td>Type 10 finished; Bugatti opens its own works in Molsheim<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1924<\/td><td>Type 35 makes its racing debut at the Lyon Grand Prix<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1925 to 1929<\/td><td>Five consecutive Targa Florio wins<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1929<\/td><td>Type 35B wins the first Monaco Grand Prix<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1932<\/td><td>First Type 41 Royale sold; six built in all<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1936 to 1938<\/td><td>Four Type 57 SC Atlantics built<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1939<\/td><td>Jean Bugatti killed in an accident near the factory, aged 30<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1947<\/td><td>Ettore Bugatti dies<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1987<\/td><td>Romano Artioli founds Bugatti Automobili S.p.A.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1991<\/td><td>EB110 unveiled in Paris on Ettore&#8217;s 110th birthday<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1995<\/td><td>Artioli&#8217;s company files for bankruptcy<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1998<\/td><td>Volkswagen secures the Bugatti brand rights<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2005<\/td><td>Veyron 16.4 production begins in Molsheim<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2016<\/td><td>Chiron revealed at Geneva<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>Chiron prototype reaches 490.484km\/h<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Bugatti Rimac joint venture formed<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2024<\/td><td>Tourbillon revealed; 500th and final Chiron built<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2026<\/td><td>Porsche exits; ownership transition completed in September<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources: Bugatti newsroom releases, Porsche newsroom, Daily FT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1881 to 1923: Ettore Bugatti and the Molsheim works<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ettore Bugatti was born in Milan in 1881 into a family of artists. His brother Rembrandt became a sculptor. Ettore went into engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before he built cars under his own name, he designed them for others. While working for Deutz in Cologne from 1907, he drew up his first independent design, the Type 10, which Bugatti now counts as the first Bugatti. It was finished in 1909: a 365kg two-seater with a 1.2-litre four-cylinder engine making 10PS and a top speed of 80km\/h. According to Bugatti, the aviation pioneer Louis Bl\u00e9riot praised the car and encouraged him to put it into production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He did. At the end of 1909 Bugatti opened his own works in a former tannery in Molsheim, with financial help from partners including Pierre de Vizcaya, and signed the lease on 1 January 1910. Molsheim was in Alsace, which was then part of the German Empire. It became French after the First World War, which is how an Italian founded what is now regarded as a French car company in a German town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Type 13, a developed Type 10, was the first car to carry the Bugatti name. Light, precise and quick for its size, it set the template Ettore would follow for the next 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1924 to 1931: the Type 35 and the racing years<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If one car made Bugatti, it was the <strong>Type 35<\/strong>. It made its competition debut at the 1924 Lyon Grand Prix, and Bugatti credits the Type 35 and its derivatives with around 2,500 victories in their active years, enough for the company to call it the most successful racing car of all time. That figure counts a lot of hillclimbs and small races alongside Grands Prix, so treat it as Bugatti&#8217;s own tally rather than an audited record. The big wins are not in doubt, though:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Targa Florio:<\/strong> five wins in a row, from 1925 to 1929.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Monaco Grand Prix:<\/strong> William Grover-Williams won the first one, in 1929, in a Type 35B.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Type 35 also gave Bugatti its signature face. Bugatti says its horseshoe grille shaped the rest of the car, and every Bugatti since, including the Tourbillon, has carried a version of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1926 to 1939: the Royale, the Atlantic and Jean Bugatti<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the racing reputation secured, Ettore aimed higher. Far higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Type 41 Royale<\/strong> was presented in 1926 as a car for royalty. It was more than six metres long, with a 4.3-metre wheelbase, and production cars used a 12.8-litre straight-eight producing about 300hp. Bugatti says it cost at least three times as much as comparable limousines of the day. The timing could not have been worse. The first car was sold only in 1932, in the middle of the Depression, and production ended in 1933. Six were built and four were sold. Its mascot, a dancing elephant, was the work of Ettore&#8217;s late brother Rembrandt. Ettore found a use for the leftover engines anyway: Bugatti adapted them for a French railcar, and the national railway SNCF ordered 79 of those units, which ran until 1958.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ettore&#8217;s son <strong>Jean Bugatti<\/strong>, born in 1909, became the company&#8217;s designer. His first work was the roadster body for the first Royale sold. His most famous is the <strong>Type 57 SC Atlantic<\/strong> of 1936, with its riveted dorsal seam and teardrop shape. Only four Atlantics were built between 1936 and 1938. Three were sold to customers and three survive. The fourth, Jean&#8217;s own black car known as La Voiture Noire, disappeared around the start of the Second World War and has never been found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jean died on 11 August 1939, aged 30, in a car accident not far from the factory. Weeks later war broke out, and for Bugatti as a carmaker, the best years were already over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our view, Jean&#8217;s death matters more to Bugatti&#8217;s history than any single car. Ettore was an engineer and an artist, but the Atlantic shows that Jean was the one who could turn that into a design language. When Bugatti came back 50 years later, it was Jean&#8217;s lines, not Ettore&#8217;s engines, that every revival reached for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1947 to 1986: the long silence<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ettore Bugatti died in 1947. The company never recovered its footing without him, and Bugatti says car production at Molsheim had ceased by 1952. For more than three decades, Bugatti was a name kept alive by collectors and museums rather than a carmaker. Today one surviving Royale is kept at Bugatti&#8217;s Molsheim headquarters, and others are in the Schlumpf Collection in Mulhouse, a short drive away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1987 to 1995: Artioli, the blue factory and the EB110<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first person to bet on the name was <strong>Romano Artioli<\/strong>, a car importer and dealer from northern Italy who handled Ferrari among other brands and had collected Bugattis for decades. After negotiating with the French government, he founded Bugatti Automobili S.p.A. in 1987 and built a new factory in Campogalliano, near Modena, in the heart of Italy&#8217;s supercar country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result was the <strong>EB110<\/strong>, unveiled in Paris on 15 September 1991, exactly 110 years after Ettore&#8217;s birth. It had a 3.5-litre V12 with four turbochargers, permanent four-wheel drive and a carbon-fibre monocoque made by the French aerospace company A\u00e9rospatiale, and Bugatti says its 351km\/h top speed was a record for a standard sports car at the time. About 128 were built. Artioli then bought Lotus, the liabilities piled up, and his company filed for bankruptcy on 23 September 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EB110 was a good car with poor timing, launched into a global recession by an owner who overreached. Its real legacy is proving that the Bugatti name could still sell a new car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1998 to 2021: Volkswagen, Pi\u00ebch and the 1,000hp Veyron<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ferdinand Pi\u00ebch<\/strong>, then running the Volkswagen Group, wanted Bugatti for one reason: to build the fastest, most technically extreme road car in the world. According to Bugatti, he sketched an 18-cylinder engine idea on a train between Tokyo and Nagoya in 1997. Volkswagen secured the brand rights on 5 May 1998, and a run of concepts followed between 1998 and 1999, ending with the EB 18\/4 Veyron at the Tokyo Motor Show in October 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2000 Pi\u00ebch announced the production target: 1,001PS and more than 400km\/h. The finished <strong>Veyron 16.4<\/strong> used an 8.0-litre quad-turbo W16, which Bugatti says made it the first road car with more than 1,000hp. It reached 407km\/h and 0 to 100km\/h in 2.5 seconds, and production began in 2005 in a new workshop at Molsheim, bringing Bugatti back to its home town. Bugatti built 450 Veyrons by hand until 2015, at prices from about \u20ac1.16 million before tax. The Veyron Super Sport set a 431km\/h record in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Chiron<\/strong> followed at Geneva in 2016 as the first road car with 1,500PS. On 2 August 2019, a pre-production Chiron derivative driven by Andy Wallace reached 490.484km\/h (304.773mph) at Volkswagen&#8217;s Ehra-Lessien test track. Bugatti says that made it the first manufacturer to build a car capable of more than 300mph. Production was capped at 500 cars, and the 500th and final Chiron, a Super Sport, was revealed in May 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our take: the Volkswagen years are the most successful in Bugatti&#8217;s history by any measure, but they also boxed the brand in. Two cars, both W16s, both defined by top speed. That worked for 20 years. It also explains why the next owner went in a different direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2021 to today: Rimac, the Tourbillon and a new set of owners<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2021 Volkswagen restructured Bugatti into <strong>Bugatti Rimac<\/strong>, a joint venture in which Rimac Group held 55 percent and Porsche 45 percent. Mate Rimac, the Croatian founder of an electric hypercar start-up, became CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His first all-new car, the <strong>Tourbillon<\/strong>, was revealed on 21 June 2024. It replaces the W16 with an 8.3-litre naturally aspirated V16, developed with Cosworth, plus electric motors. Bugatti&#8217;s figures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><td><strong>Tourbillon specification<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Figure<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Engine<\/td><td>8.3-litre naturally aspirated V16, plus electric motors<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total output<\/td><td>1,800hp (1,000hp V16, 800hp electric)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Battery<\/td><td>25kWh, 800V<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Electric-only range<\/td><td>More than 60km<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Top speed<\/td><td>More than 400km\/h, per Bugatti<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Production<\/td><td>250 cars<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Price<\/td><td>From \u20ac3.8 million, net of taxes<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Bugatti press release, 21 June 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bugatti originally said customer deliveries were planned for 2026. As of September 2026 its own releases describe the Tourbillon as being in the final stage of testing, with type approval not yet granted, so the first deliveries are close but not confirmed. In July 2026 Bugatti opened La Manufacture, a new 3,245 square-metre building in Molsheim that will handle Tourbillon production and can support up to 200 cars a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then the ownership changed again. Porsche agreed in April 2026 to sell its 45 percent stake in Bugatti Rimac, and its 20.6 percent stake in Rimac Group, to a consortium led by New York-based HOF Capital, with Abu Dhabi&#8217;s BlueFive Capital as its largest investor. Bugatti confirmed on 9 September 2026 that the deal was complete, ending Volkswagen Group&#8217;s involvement after 28 years. Mate Rimac now also takes over as President of Bugatti Automobiles. Financial terms were not disclosed by Porsche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bugatti in India<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bugatti does not have an official importer, dealer or service centre in India. Anyone wanting one here faces three problems:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Import duty.<\/strong> A fully imported car with a CIF value above USD 40,000 attracts 70 percent basic customs duty plus a 40 percent agriculture cess, according to Autocar India&#8217;s reading of the 2025 Budget. On a Bugatti, that is a sum larger than the price of most supercars.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Steering side.<\/strong> India&#8217;s import rules require cars registered for road use to have right-hand steering, and Top Gear India notes the Chiron is left-hand drive only.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Service.<\/strong> With no Indian workshop, servicing means shipping the car to an authorised Bugatti partner abroad. Top Gear India&#8217;s 2022 estimate named Dubai or Singapore as the nearest options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Put together, an Indian buyer would in practice have to keep a Bugatti somewhere else. For Indian buyers with hypercar money, the realistic options at home are the brands that are sold and serviced here. Our guides to the <a href=\"https:\/\/motozite.com\/blog\/most-expensive-luxury-cars-india\/\">most expensive luxury cars in India<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/motozite.com\/blog\/best-ultra-luxury-car-brands-compared\/\">Maybach vs Rolls-Royce vs Bentley<\/a> cover what is available, and you can browse <a href=\"https:\/\/motozite.com\/blog\/used-luxury-cars-above-2-crore\/\">ultra-luxury cars above Rs 2 crore<\/a> listed on Motozite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Bugatti&#8217;s history says about the brand today<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The name has always been the asset.<\/strong> Every owner since 1987 bought Bugatti for its reputation, not its factories or its sales. That is still true under Rimac.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scarcity is not a strategy Bugatti invented, but it is one it inherited.<\/strong> Six Royales, four Atlantics, 450 Veyrons, 500 Chirons, 250 Tourbillons. The numbers have grown, but the logic has not changed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Tourbillon is the riskiest Bugatti since the EB110.<\/strong> A new engine, a new hybrid system and a new owner, all at once. If it delivers on time and works as promised, Rimac will have done what Artioli could not: renewed Bugatti without a carmaker&#8217;s balance sheet behind it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Bugatti&#8217;s story interests you, its two Italian neighbours have their own: read our <a href=\"https:\/\/motozite.com\/blog\/history-of-ferrari\/\">history of Ferrari<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/motozite.com\/blog\/history-of-lamborghini\/\">history of Lamborghini<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>FAQ<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Who founded Bugatti and when?<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bugatti was founded by Ettore Bugatti, an engineer born in Milan in 1881. He opened his own car works in a former tannery in Molsheim, Alsace, at the end of 1909, and signed the factory lease on 1 January 1910. His first car, the Type 10, was finished in 1909.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Is Bugatti French or Italian?<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both, in a sense. Ettore Bugatti was Italian, but the company has always been based in Molsheim, Alsace, which was part of Germany when Bugatti was founded and has been French since the end of the First World War. Bugatti is regarded as a French brand today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Who owns Bugatti now?<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bugatti is part of Bugatti Rimac, which is controlled by Mate Rimac&#8217;s Rimac Group. In September 2026 Bugatti confirmed that Porsche had completed the sale of its 45 percent stake to a consortium led by HOF Capital, with BlueFive Capital as its largest investor. That ended Volkswagen Group&#8217;s ownership, which began in 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is the most famous Bugatti ever made?<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Type 35 is the most successful, with around 2,500 race wins and podiums credited to it by Bugatti, including the first Monaco Grand Prix in 1929. The Type 57 SC Atlantic is the most celebrated design: only four were built, and one, La Voiture Noire, has been missing since around 1938.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How fast is the fastest Bugatti?<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 2 August 2019, a pre-production Bugatti Chiron derivative reached 490.484km\/h (304.773mph) at the Ehra-Lessien test track in Germany, driven by Andy Wallace. Bugatti says the new Tourbillon can exceed 400km\/h.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Can you buy a Bugatti in India?<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not officially. Bugatti has no importer, dealer or service centre in India. A private import faces customs duty of more than 100 percent on cars above USD 40,000, India requires right-hand steering for registered cars, and recent Bugattis such as the Chiron are left-hand drive. Servicing would have to be done abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bugatti was founded by Ettore Bugatti, an Italian-born engineer, who set up his own car company in a disused tannery in Molsheim, Alsace, at the end of 1909. 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