Bugatti: Pure driving pleasure in a convertible
EXCLUSIVE Bugatti has been designing exceptional vehicles for more than 110 years. The convertibles have a very special place in the model range. The open-top cars are designed to maximize driving pleasure.
As two-seater sports cars, roadsters have always offered pure driving pleasure. Company founder Ettore Bugatti and his son therefore designed some of the most exciting convertibles even in the early days of the company's more than 110-year history.¨
Ettore and Jean Bugatti were permanently striving to build high-performance vehicles with precise handling and exceptional design. Jean Bugatti in particular designed some of the most famous roadsters in automotive history from the mid-1920s until his death in 1939.
Becoming aware of your own DNA
Christophe Piochon, President Bugatti Automobiles: "For us, diving into a long tradition is always about pausing and becoming aware of our own DNA. Bugatti has created some of the most special roadsters over the past decades."
With the Type 40 A, for example, Bugatti expanded its Type 40 portfolio from 1930. It was based on a long chassis and powered by a 1.6-liter four-cylinder with 50 hp. The 850-kilogram car could reach speeds of up to 130 km/h. Bugatti dispensed with doors on the roadster body of the lightweight Type 44. The Type 44 was already powered by a 3-liter eight-cylinder engine with around 80 hp.
Elegance, luxury and grandeur
No other model from Bugatti's early era exudes as much elegance, luxury and grandeur as the Type 41 Royal. Only six vehicles were built by hand between 1926 and 1933.
With a wheelbase of 4.3 meters and a length of more than six meters, the Royale is the largest, most powerful and most magnificent car built in Molsheim up to that time. A 12.8-liter eight-cylinder engine with around 300 hp works under the long hood.
Without roof 360 km/h, with over 400 km/h
With the Type 57 SC, the Corsica Roadster was created in 1938, a car as if from a single mold. Its 3.8-liter eight-cylinder engine made speeds of up to 200 km/h possible. Bugatti presented the first hyper sports car, the Veyron 16.4, in 2004 - in 2008 came the first roadster version of the modern era, the Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport. It reaches 360 km/h without the roof and even more than 400 km/h with the polycarbonate roof element.
