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Ralph Lauren Decorates Paris With His Breathtaking Car Collection
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Ralph Lauren’s prestigious sports car collection is on show for the first time at Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Lauren is normally reluctant to publicly display his vehicles, although he last let publications such as Road & Track and Vanity Fair get a glimpse of various vehicles in his stable. Cars from manufacturers like Bentley, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Porsche…
Bugatti Type 64 Finally Gets Built After 72 Years
Peter Mullin, who has collected more than 30 Bugattis at his Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard California, is receiving an appropriate body to be fitted to one of the last remaining 1939 Bugatti Type 64’s. The Bugatti Type 64 was originally designed by Jean Bugatti, the son of Ettore Bugatti, who founded the car company. “We…
Volkswagen To Launch Plug-In Hybrid Range In 2013
At the 32nd International Motor Symposium in Vienna, Austria, Volkswagen head honco Dr. Martin Winterkorn announced that the Volkswagen Group will launch a range of plug-in hybrids starting in 2013, calling electric vehicles the “task of the century” for the auto industry. Winterkorn didn’t specify which models would get a plug-in hybrid variant, and the move comes…
Bugatti Offers Two More Veyron Special Editions in Shanghai
After tinkering around with Bugatti’s extensive online configurator for their Veyron, we find it hard to believe anyone special ordering their Veyron would end up with an identical one as someone else. But as if a ridiculously high number of combinations weren’t enough, Bugatti has released two more special edition Veyrons out in Shanghai featuring…
Bugatti Galibier Super Sedan to Get Hybrid Tech
Bugatti president and CEO Wolfgang Durheimer confirming that Bugatti will move forward with producing the 16C Galibier isn’t the biggest news about the super sedan, rather, it’s the fact that Bugatti will be offering a hybrid variant of the car. In an interview with CAR Magazine, Durheimer announced more details on the Galibier program and…
Ferrari’s Next Flagship Will Be Influenced By Bugatti Veyron
Ferrari‘s next flagship supercar, the successor to the 2003 Enzo, will be influenced by the Bugatti Veyron, although Ferrari declined to specify what parts of the vehicle were inspired by the world’s most powerful car. A Ferrari source reportedly told Autocar “The world is a very different place to how it was when the Enzo was launched….
Bugatti Galiber Super Sedan Headed to Production
For those well-heeled enthusiasts looking to take their friends up to 250+mph, take heart—Bugatti has announced plans to build the Galiber four-do0r, four-seater sedan. Consider the Galiber a Sybartic, jewel-encrusted amusement park ride, then—with room to impress the neighbors and the same 1000+horsepower W16 engine as in the Veyron. Though because it’s a sensible family…
Bugatti Veyron That Crashed in Texas Lake Up for Auction
You could be the proud regretful owner of a Bugatti Veryron, for what is certain to be a fraction of the cost of a new model. No, we’re not talking about a Fiero kit car, but a real Veyron. There’s just one issue, it’s got a salvage title given by the insurance company when the…
Bugatti’s Veyron Configurator Opens Doors to Ugliest Veyron Competition
A group of Facebook users have decided to take advantage of Bugatti’s in depth Veyron configurator by holding a contest to see who can produce the ugliest Bugatti Veyron out there. Now for those that haven’t played around with the Veyron configurator – mostly because many of us never plan on owning one – there’s…
Bugatti Edition Mechanical Buckle Has a Lot Going on Under the Hood
There are belts, and then there are belts for the exotic automobile enthusiast. If you fall into the latter category, you’ll want to keep you pants in place with a Bugatti edition mechanical buckle. Designed by Roland Iten, the new Bugatti mechanical belt buckles are reminiscent of watch movement… and no wonder. These belt buckles…
Transform your Mercury Cougar to a… Bugatti Veyron?
Normally we have huge gripes about an awesome concept with poor execution, but this time we can’t bring ourselves to complain. OK, sure it’s not exactly at the top of our list of things to do – nor would we be the ones forking out the cash for it – but we can’t say it’s…
Bugatti Veyron Jumps The Shark With Latest Birdman Video Appearance
Rapper and music impresario Birdman is the finest example of the American dream – even someone of questionable literacy can become rich enough to afford a Bugatti Veyron thanks to hard work and capitalize on certain “market inefficiencies” when distributing products that are only available at your local street-corner pharmacy. Despite Birdman’s love of premium products,…
Bugatti Planning Audi A8-Based Sedan, No More Sports Cars
The Bugatti Galibier was first introduced in September of 2009 and while it has already reportedly been given the green-light several times, Germany’s Der Spiegel has just announced an additional confirmation. In an interview with company execs, Der Spiegel reports that a new model is in the works, based on the Audi A8 platform. It’s…
All We Want For Christmas Is A Santa Red Bugatti EB110
Mention the name Bugatti and almost everyone will utter the name Veyron. We can’t blame them either since the Veyron was the first production car to have a power output of over 1000-hp, and in its Super Sport guise managed to hit 268-mph, making it the fastest production car in the world. The Veyron is…
Designer Flasks Styled After Classic Car Grilles
Christmas is creeping up on us, and if you’re scrambling to find a special gift for the car enthusiast, we think we can help you out. Craftsman Nicholas Brawer has designed a set of decanters made out of radiators of famous luxury cars. The set of five are styled after the grilles of classic Rolls…
Bugatti Veyron Available In “Rape Yellow”
The Bugatti Veyron may not be the best car of 2010, but it certainly wins inaugural award for “most unfortunate color descriptor” with the available “Rape Yellow” paint scheme. Before angry feminist groups start marching on Molsheim, it should be known that “rape” in this context refers to the flower from which canola oil is…
Ralph Lauren’s Bugatti Watch Styled After His 1938 Atlantic
Embodying sophistication and style, there’s only one designer up to the task of creating a signature Bugatti timepiece, and that’s Ralph Lauren. Ralph Lauren may be best known as being an upscale clothing designer, but the man behind the legend is also the proud owner of one of the finest classic car collections around, which…
Bugatti Looking For An Intern: Time to Start Polishing Your Resumé
Talk about the ultimate internship. Bugatti, the manufacturer of the fastest production car ever made – the Veyron SS, is looking to hire an intern for their marketing department in Herndon, VA. So while many people will never get the chance to get behind the wheel of this magnificent, 268 mph machine, you could actually…
Jay-Z Gets Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport From Beyonce For His 41st Birthday
Jay-Z is a pretty lucky guy – one of the world’s best rappers, former CEO of Def Jam Records and a multiple Grammy winner worth about $450 million. If that wasn’t enough, he’s married to Beyonce Knowles, the super-talented singer who was kind enough to buy her husband a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport for his…
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport Pictures: Massive Gallery of the Wolrd’s Fastest Car
Several months back we got our first look the the new Veyron Super Sport when Bugatti debuted the car by announcing it had been certified by the Guinness Book of Records as the World’s Fastest Car. Then we brought you numerous photos from the unveiling of the second production version of the supercar from The…
Matte White Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport on Display in Beverly Hills [Video]
We believe Bugatti’s Veyron Grand Sport needs no real introduction as the convertible counterpart to Bugatti’s Veyron coupe. It weighs more, it costs more, but hey, you can hit 220-mph with the roof off. Now with only 150 of these bad boys being made in the world, we wouldn’t imagine that a whole lot of…
Bugatti Veyron Launched In India With MSRP Of $3.6 Million
More than 75 percent of India’s population lives on less than $2 a day, but that hasn’t stopped Bugatti from selling their Veyron supercar in the country, where a 110 percent import tax has pushed the car’s price to $3.6 million USD. “People have more spending power and are getting more aware of owning beautiful…
Bugatti Veyron Fender Bender Caught on Video
As the story goes, a potential Bugatti Veyron owner wanted to take his (not so) future car out on a test drive. While backing out the $2,000,000 supercar, the driver neglected to check his blind spots carefully and ended up backing into a car just sitting in traffic. And along with the rear bumper damage,…
BMW 6 Series Transformed into Bugatti Veyron [video]
In the world of crazy conversions, we’ve seen quite a few. Some are horrendous and some are respectable, given the scope of what they did with their project. This one definitely fits into the horrendous pile, even if it’s not nearly as bad as it could be. This car began life as was a standard…
