Ettore Bugatti

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Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (September 15, 1881, Milan, died on August 21, 1947) was an Italian automobile designer and manufacturer.

Ettore came from a notably artistic family with its roots in Milan. He was the elder son of Teresa Lorioli and her husband Carlo Bugatti (1856–1940), an important Art Nouveau furniture and jewelry designer. His younger brother was a renowned animal sculptor, Rembrandt Bugatti (1884–1916), his aunt, Luigia Bugatti, was the wife of the painter Giovanni Segantini, and his paternal grandfather, Giovanni Luigi Bugatti, was an architect and sculptor.

Before founding his Bugatti automobile company, Ettore designed a number of engines and vehicles for others. Prinetti & Stucchi produced his 1898 Type 1. From 1902 through 1904, Dietrich built his Type 3/4 and Type 5/6/7 under the Dietrich-Bugatti marque. In 1907, Bugatti went to work for the Deutz Gasmotoren Fabrik, designing the Type 8/9.

On his own time, Bugatti developed the Type 2 (in 1900 and 1901), and the 1903 Type 5. While at Deutz, Bugatti built his Type 10 in the basement of his home. In 1913, Bugatti designed a small car for Peugeot, the Type 19 "Bébé".

Although he was born in Italy, Bugatti set up his eponymous automobile company in Molsheim in the Alsace region, now part of France. He was its technical innovator, developing a number of engines and chassis for the numerous models produced over the next three decades. The company was known for the advanced engineering in its premium road cars and its success in early Grand Prix motor racing, a Bugatti winning the first Monaco Grand Prix.

Bugatti Type 59 Grand Prix

While displaced from his home in Alsace by World War 1 Bugatti designed aero engines, notably the somewhat baroque 16-cylinder U-16, although this was never built in large numbers was installed in very few aircraft.^[1].^[2] Between the wars Ettore Bugatti also designed a successful motorized railcar, the Autorail, and an airplane, though this never flew. His son, Jean Bugatti, was killed on August 11, 1939 at the age of 30, while testing a Type 57 tank-bodied race car near the Molsheim factory. After that, the company's fortunes began to decline. World War II ruined the factory in Molsheim, and the company lost control of the property. During the war, Bugatti planned a new factory at Levallois in Paris and designed a series of new cars.

Ettore Bugatti was buried in the Bugatti family plot at the municipal cemetery in Dorlisheim near Molsheim in the Bas-Rhin département of the Alsace region of France.

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v • d • e Bugatti road car timeline, 1910–present — a marque of the Volkswagen Group since 1998
type / class	1910s										1920s										1930s										1940s										1950s										1960s			1963–86	1980s			1990s										2000s										2010s
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2		7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
owner	Ettore Bugatti / Roland Bugatti																																																						Romano Artioli											Volkswagen Group
company name	Bugatti																																																						Bugatti Automobili S.p.A											Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S.
touring car													Type 30 / Type 49													Type 57
																				Type 46
limousine																		Type 41 Royale
roadster											Type 13 / Brescia Tourer												Type 55
coupé																																										Type 101
sports car	Type 13		Type 18 Garros																																													Type 252											EB110														Veyron EB16.4
founder: Ettore Bugatti • Bugatti corporate website • A marque of the Volkswagen Group • Molsheim