The Bugatti 8-cylinder line is a car from Bugatti, built from 1922 to 1934, the vintage years, when coachbuilders still shaped most of what was sold. Under the bonnet: 1991 cc I8.
How it came about
The early Bugatti 8-cylinder line began with the 1922 Type 30. The same basic design was used for the 1926 Type 38 as well as the Type 40, Type 43, Type 44, and Type 49.
The hardware
Power comes from 1991 cc I8; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Bugatti Type 57; assembly was at Molsheim, Alsace (Usine Bugatti de Molsheim), France. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Vauxhall 14-40, the Rolls-Royce Twenty, the Vauxhall 23-60 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Bugatti stablemates include the Bugatti 57 Galibier and the Bugatti Centodieci.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Bugatti 8-cylinder line — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.