Great Cars: BUGATTI

There is no other car make that has created the mystique that Ettore Bugatti did with his race winning roadsters and his grand luxury autos. Growing up in a household of artists, his constant companions were poets, painters, sculptors and architects. Bugatti was determined to meld his artistic heritage with his love for the automobile. He not only built the all-conquering racecars of the 1920's, he built the world's rarest and most expensive cars, six Bugatti Royales, (one of which Volkswagen recently purchased for a reported $15 Million). He also built a sleek, aerodynamic train that set a world's speed record and boats that beat nearly everyone. Whatever he created had to be beautiful and fast. We'll see how this son of an artist set out to create his exquisitely crafted legends and turned art into motion. EP 207