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Paris show’s anniversary bash was packed with some of the event’s best classic displays yet

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Next week sees the 50th edition of one of Europe’s best-known classic shows – here are our past highlights to whet your appetite

Bugatti’s official story is that the seed of the Veyron was planted in 1997. VW Group boss Ferdinand Piëch and his powertrain chief Karl-Heinz Neumann were on a Japanese train brewing up engine ideas.

As new models become ever more bloated and indistinguishable from one another in their visual appearance, is it any wonder that car designers are inclined to look over their shoulders at their marques