What is bugatti and when did it start making cars?

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.

Every so often a brilliant GTI leaves Wolfsburg – look no further than the 1976 original or the new Edition 50. But why have so many of them been so underwhelming?

TopGear: We heard that many years ago you had sketched a ‘Veyron facelift’ that never came to be. Is that true? Tell us the story. Frank Heyl: Yes, there was an inbetween stage. We were working on the

Last week a couple of separate but related events unfolded in the world of Monopoly-money cars. Bugatti revealed an impressive Chiron-based Veyron 2.0, while across the Atlantic, in Florida, somebody

Either someone just collapsed a wormhole in the spacetime continuum and bunched up the past 20 years, or Bugatti is messing with our tiny little minds. Turns out it’s the latter, because if you though

‘IT’S A BIT like seeing an old girlfriend again,’ muses Nicholas Mee as his former Venturi Atlantique 300 press car glints in the sun. ‘There are a lot of mixed feelings.’ Nearly 30 years have passed