{"id":23353,"date":"2018-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/110-years-of-bugatti-type-10\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T12:32:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:32:57","slug":"110-years-of-bugatti-type-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/110-years-of-bugatti-type-10\/","title":{"rendered":"110 Years of Bugatti Type 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The name Bugatti is world-famous today. But the beginnings of this brand, which today stands for powerful and luxurious hypercars, are known to less people. Company founder Ettore Bugatti was born on 15 September 1881 in Milan as first of three children of furniture designer Carlo Bugatti and his wife Teresa Lorioli. At the request of his father, Ettore began studying arts, but soon discovered his love for technology and therefore switched to engineering. At the age of 17, he started training at the bicycle manufacturer Prinetti & Stucchi, where he soon developed his ‘Type 1’, a motorized tricycle. In 1900, with the financial support of various friends of his father, he developed his first ever car with the ‘Type 2’, winning races and attracting the attention of Baron Eug\u00e8ne de Dietrich, boss and founder of a car manufactory, who hired him as the technical director of automobile production. Ettore developed several types of vehicles there until 1904, when he and the Baron split, because of Ettores moods and personality. He then started working at the newly founded company of \u00c9mile Mathis in Strasbourg.

After just one year this job also ended for the same reasons as before, but Ettore Bugatti not only found a new job at Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz in Cologne, but also married his wife Barbara Maria Giuseppina Mascherpa in 1907. Next to his development work for his employer, he tinkered after work in the basement of his villa in Cologne-M\u00fclheim on a particularly light, agile and powerful automobile. This approach was new for the time, as other manufacturers normally tried to win races by more and more displacement – sometimes up to twelve liters – associated with high car weight. Next to those vehicles, the Type 10, developed in 1908 and finally ready in early 1909, looked like a racecar from the future. Since the car was developed on its own and with his own employees, apart from his employment contract with Deutz, the Type 10 today is considered as the first ‘real’ Bugatti.<\/p>\n\n\n

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