Imagine a car company that produced not only the most highly regarded luxury cars of its era, but also the most successful racing cars.
Imagine a company that combined the best attributes of Rolls-Royce and Ferrari. And imagine such a company not being controlled by corporate boards of directors, but only by a single visionary man. If you can imagine all this, then you can imagine what Bugatti was like in 1930. Read more . . .
The phrase “over the top” had not been invented in 1927, but if it had, it would definitely have been applied to Ettore Bugatti’s Royale. 
This short series of cars–only six or seven were built, and no one is quite sure of the figure–lent new meaning to the word conspicuous consumption. At the same time, the behemoth Bugatti Royale was a beautifully engineered and meticulously crafted piece of automotive art. Read more . . .