Category: Bugatti

Ettore Bugatti arrived in Alsace in Eastern France from his native Lombardy to design cars for a number of industrial concerns. Right from the start he upset a number of potential customers by his dictatorial attitude towards customers who dared to complain. There was no doubt that he could design great cars but he lost many jobs because of his intolerance of people who did not treat his designs with due respect. With characteristic extravagance, he had a hotel named L’Hostellerie du pur-Sang built next to his factory in Molsheim…. Read more