The Bugatti type 23 airfoiled is one of the Bugatti entries the open record knows by name and by date — in 1926, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable.
Where it sits
In the Bugatti line-up the Bugatti type 23 airfoiled has a clear place: the factory was Usine Bugatti de Molsheim. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Pontiac Pontiac, the Panhard & Levassor type 35 CV single-seater 1933, the Mercedes-Benz W03. Its Bugatti stablemates include the Bugatti 57 Galibier and the Bugatti 8-cylinder line.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Bugatti type 23 airfoiled — 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.