The Bugatti Type 41 Royale 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
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Usine Bugatti de Molsheim. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Tatra 12, the Tatra 30, the Pontiac 6 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Bugatti stablemates include the Bugatti 57 Galibier and the Bugatti 8-cylinder line.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Bugatti Type 41 Royale — 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.