Bugatti is one of the most exclusive automobile manufacturers on the planet. Bugatti currently produces just one vehicle, the Veyron, considered by many to be the fastest street-legal production car in the world. The history of Bugatti is long and checkered with plenty of stops and starts. Originally, Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a French manufacturer of high-performance automobiles that was founded in 1909 in the then German city of Molsheim, Alsace, by Italian-born Ettore Bugatti. Throughout the early to mid-1900s, Bugatti produced some of the most beautiful and expensive cars on the road. After Errore’s death in 1947, the company fell onto hard times and eventually was sold to a number of different ownership groups. In 1998 Volkswagen swooped in and purchased the company and put the wheels in motion to produce the million-dollar Veyron.

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