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In 1900, at age 17, Bugatti built his first
vehicle, a motorized tricycle powered by
two engines made by De Dion, when
he was an apprentice at the bicycle and
tricycle manufacturing firm of Prinetti
& Stucchi.
Several years later, under his company,
Automobiles E. Bugatti, Bugatti began
developing the model for Peugeot and
sold design licenses to Diatto in Turin,
Rabag from Düsseldorf, and Crossley
from Manchester, Great Britain. During
WWI, Bugatti developed and produced
aircraft engines for both the American
and French governments. After that
it was all race cars and luxury cars, and
then the combination of both that set
the company's course for greatness,
which leads us to today with the Bugatti
Chiron.
Noted as the world's first super sports
car to bring 1,500 HP onto the road
with a torque of 1.600 Nm at 2,000 to
6,000 rpm with extreme smoothness
and effectiveness, along with high safety
levels and comfort, the Bugatti Chiron
is a work of art, a beastly machine,
with a cloud-like ride, all rolled into
one. "e Chiron is the quintessential
ultimate super sports car: ultra-modern,
incredibly fast, agile and powerful with
a stylistically demanding design and
the highest possible levels of comfort,"
says Wolfgang Dürheimer, President
of Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. "is
combination is not offered by any other
