Coches Bugatti: libros - historia y modelos (1/2)

Bugatti, journal d'une sage (2ème édition) (Collection Prestige)

A comienzos de este siglo XXI, la sociedad Bugatti produce los automóviles más sofisticados de toda la producción mundial. Mezclan confusamente las ventajas de una tecnología vanguardista y el encanto indescriptible de las artesanías intemporales.
La firma resucitó en 1998 bajo el auspicio del Grupo Volkswagen después de haber conocido las tormentas inherentes a los movimientos del siglo.

Ettore Bugatti diseñó sus primeros automóviles al amanecer del siglo XX poniendo su mirada singular al servicio de varios industriales. Luego su individualismo lo llevó a crear su propia empresa en 1910.

Rodeado de fieles cómplices, pronto alcanzados por su hijo Jean, Ettore Bugatti escribió una leyenda que duró dos décadas, entre las dos guerras mundiales.

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Son estos destinos singulares, estas trayectorias recompuestas al azar de los dramas y los golpes de efecto, los que este "Diario" narra día tras día. La trayectoria de la marca aquí está marcada por seis actos correspondientes a los grandes periodos de una aventura humana tanto como industrial.

Resumen:

Acto I: Bugatti antes de Bugatti
Acto II: El ascenso, 1910-1930
Acto III: La reacción, 1931-1947
Acto IV: entre paréntesis, 1948-1986
Acto V: La aventura italiana, 1986-1997
Acto VI: Segunda renacimiento, 1998 hasta hoy.

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Bugatti - A legend tied to Italy / Una leggenda legata all'Italia

The legendary Bugatti make has taken off again thanks to the boost provided by the Volkswagen Group. This Group has promoted the making of sensational supercars, which, in terms of features and performance, are by far the most unique cars in the world, ranging from the various versions of the EB 16.4 Veyron on through to the Chiron, which with its 1500 bhp easily reaches 420 km/h, and the more recent Divo at a price of five million euros.

The book begins with an exclusive, long interview with Stephan Winkelmann, President of Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S., who explains the characteristics and the motivating force behind the most amazing brand in the automotive industry.
This is a sensational project symbolically linked with the previous period of management of the Bugatti brand, when through the efforts of the Italian entrepreneur Romano Artioli, the brand underwent a brilliant relaunch, which enabled production of the EB 110 sports car in the futuristic Campogalliano factory. In the mid-1990s, the Bugatti EB 110 was the fastest production car in the world.

Much of the book also deals with Bugatti cars in the days of Ettore Bugatti, who was born in 1881 in Milan and still stands tall amongst the greatest automobile engineers and entrepreneurs. Bugatti cars were meant to be astonishing because of their ingenious features and performance, but also because of their beauty and character.

Retracing the historical transitions of the Bugatti brand is a sort of total immersion in the most exclusive world of motor racing, with continuous transitions between technology, lifestyles, design and the history of costume and fashion.

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Bugatti - Panorama illustré des modèles

Ettore Bugatti, nacido en Italia pero vinculado a Francia, creó una marca de automóviles legendaria. Sin embargo, la guerra y la pérdida de su talentoso hijo impidieron la continuidad de su obra.

Treinta años después del fin de la producción bajo su dirección, un grupo de empresarios italianos intentó revivir la marca. Sin embargo, una recesión y desacuerdos internos llevaron al fracaso del proyecto. Más tarde, Volkswagen tomó el control de Bugatti y desarrolló hypercars excepcionales.

Esta segunda edición actualizada repasa la historia de esta icónica marca francesa. Una obra imprescindible para coleccionistas y aficionados a Bugatti.

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Bugatti Blue : Prescott and the Spirit of Bugatti

The British have had an affair with Bugatti for decades and perhaps Prescott is the place where that have relationship has reached its highlights across the decades. This collection of photographic images captures the brilliance of Bugatti design amid Bugatti blue at Prescott's wonderful natural amphitheatre in the Cotswolds - to which visitors, Bugatti owners, enthusiasts and addicts have travelled from all over the world for decades.
The author is a designer, photographer and writer who has spent years around old cars and years visiting Prescott and the Bugatti Owners Club.

In this collection of photographs, much of the masterworks of Molsheim are captured in action and at rest at the altar of British Bugatti enthusiasm. Herein are moments and memories of old Bugattis, their owners and drivers, and other vintage and classic cars in action at this revered location.

This new collection of stunning images, created over a number of years, allied to a concise narrative and with assistance from Bugatti experts, should provide the Bugatti and vintage car enthusiast with something new to accompany their own memories of Bugatti amid a record of Prescott and the Bugatti Owners Club events and VSSC days.

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Bugatti - The Designer : the inventions, ideas, thoughts & follies of Ettore Bugatti

This book is about Ettore Bugatti's extraordinary mind devoted to a multitude of inventions, designs, modifications, innovations, ideas, hobbies and follies. The object of this publication is an attempt to try and cover a very diverse and wide volume of work in the design field and includes Cars, Railway, Marine, Aircraft and Machine Tools.

Contents include: The Bugatti Heritage 1676-2008; List of inventions, designs, ideas and follies in alphabetical order; Molsheim Electrics; Horses and Carriages; Machine Tool Patents; Aeronautics; Railways; Marine; Automotive.
Appendices: Biography of Giovanni Segantini; Details of the Bugatti Aircraft Assoc.; Details of the Bugatti Trust; Details of the Bugatti Owners Club.

It will be seen that some of the information, photographs and technical drawings are from earlier times and are sometimes not of the reproductive quality we would have liked - many of them taken from newspapers and magazines initially printed on newsprint quality paper and even from carbon copies or photocopies. It is the information and photographs that we believe to be of interest which we feel is reason enough for inclusion in this book.

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Bugatti - The Italian Decade

Cuando, en 1987, Romano Artioli y sus destacados asociados - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Paolo Stanzani y Jean-Marc Borel - decidieron reencarnar a Bugatti, una de las marcas automovilísticas más famosas de todos los tiempos, contaban con Ferruccio Lamborghini, Paolo Stanzani y la leyenda del diseño Marcello Gandini, tres de los nombres más prominentes en el firmamento italiano de los supercoches, lo que sugería un futuro brillante para la marca.
Ocho años después, el sueño de Artioli había terminado. Se declaró la bancarrota, se cerró la fábrica y el hermoso campus se redujo a un edificio fantasma.

No había pasado ni una década entre los primeros germenes de una idea y el final en 1995, sin embargo, hay suficientes elementos para una historia emocionante llena de acción: discordia, rivalidad, orgullo, poder, dinero, prestigio, estrellas, crisis y un final dramático.
¿Qué pasó? ¿Por qué pasó? "Bugatti: La Década Italiana" responde a todo eso y más.

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Bugatti - The Man and the Marque

A rigorously researched and definitive book - the first major re-appraisal of artist engineer Ettore Bugatti and his extraordinary cars to appear since 1963. He built only 7, 800 cars between 1910 and 1939, but these are much sought-after today.

This book charts the beginnings of the famous marque, the cars that brought it fame from the exquisite Type 35 to the massive Royale, only six of which were ever built, and chronicles the make's revival which began in Italy in 1988.

Comprehensively illustrated with over 300 photographs, this book is a unique source of reference and winner of the Society of Automotive Historians' Cugnot Award.

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Bugatti Supercars - A century of genius

Este libro ilustrado ofrece una nueva perspectiva sobre Bugatti y destaca los principales hitos de diseño de sus superdeportivos más emblemáticos. Sigue la evolución de la marca desde sus orígenes como pionera del "superdeportivo" hasta su legado actual en el ámbito de los "hiperdeportivos". Modelos seleccionados muestran este recorrido y enlazan las creaciones históricas con las innovaciones más recientes, ofreciendo una visión clara tanto para aficionados expertos como para nuevos lectores.

A lo largo de más de un siglo, la historia de Bugatti combina excelencia técnica, diseño artístico y un estilo único. Sus automóviles destacan por su calidad de fabricación y prestaciones. El libro incluye fotografías impactantes, muchas de ellas inéditas, y presenta un registro visual y textual actualizado del legado de Bugatti.

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Grand Prix Bugatti

The Grand Prix Bugatti has a strong claim to a book all of its own, with its enviable record of racing successes, its superb craftsmanship and, for the more mechanically minded, the great variety of its ingenious design features unique to the creations of the great artist designer, Ettore Bugatti.

"Grand Prix Bugatti", originally written in 1968 by the preeminent Bugatti expert H.G. Conway, is devoted to the racing Types 35, 37, 43 and 51, in their various forms, and describes their anatomy in detail and their racing achievements.

A schedule of individual models, in chassis number order, gives type number, factory date, brief history and where known, the owner (as of 1968); the appendices include tabulated specifications of the types. Bugatti owners will also find much practical information to help them maintain their historic cars.
Extensively illustrated with contemporaneous racing photographs and technical diagrams, "Grand Prix Bugatti" is a classic reference book for anyone interested in the history of Bugatti racing and competition cars.

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Art of Bugatti

As a rule, a car manufacturer is either a constructor or a designer, but Ettore Bugatti was both. His sports cars founded a myth that lives on today under the direction of the Volkswagen Group. Bugatti set standards right from his first car.
But Bugatti was more than "just" a car manufacturer; his cars became milestones in racing history and icons of car design.

In this volume, illustrated with unique pictures, René Staud and Bernd Ostmann tell the story of the cult brand - from its beginnings to the rescue of the brand by Volkswagen.

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