Ettore Bugatti's Impact On The Automotive Industry

Ettore Bugatti was an innovative man who had a great impact on the automotive industry. Early Life
His childlife was mostly him going to school like a normal child but he went on to a art school after graduating from normal school. He was born in italy on september 15th 1881 by the name Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti. But he always had a interest in engineering and creating things. When he was 17 he joined a small manufacturing company called Prinetti & Stucchi who made bicycles and tricycles as an apprentice This was achievement was soon followed by his very first automobile in 1900. The outstanding construction process had been financed by Count Gulinelli,
After the war ended he moved back to Molsheim - which had now become French territory - and continued to build lightweight sports cars at the old location. His cars gave him victories in 1920 at Le Mans and in 1921 at Brescia, winning three more times after this. The winning streak continued, reaching over 400 victories by 1925. His son, Jean, was already actively involved in the company and a very talented engineer. In 1934, Ettore started manufacturing the very expensive Type 57 model, which had a chassis entirely designed by his
During this time, Ettore married his second wife, Genevieve Marguerite Delcuze, with whom he had another son and a daughter. He had also planned to build a new factory in Paris, at Levallois, and designed a number of never-to-be-born cars while the war lasted, but the dream was killed from its infancy.Even though Jean's brother, Roland, took over the Bugatti car business after the war, the cars he made never caught up with the latest automotive developments and it soon went bankrupt. Ettore died in Paris, on 21 of August 1947, and was buried in Dorlisheim, near Molsheim, in the Bugatti family plot. He had just become a French citizen that year. The brand of exquisite automobiles he developed from the ground up ceased to exist until recent years, when it was revived first by an Italian lawyer and then by Volkswagen, who also rebuilt the old Molsheim facilities. Ettore's legacy lives on through the magnificent cars he built between the two World Wars and continues with the recent reiteration of the