Black / Blue Bugatti Royale motor car front bonnet grille, Schlumpfs Museum mulhouse Horizontal 099346_Schlumpf Museum
The Bugatti Type 41, better known as the Royale, was a large luxury car with a m ( in) wheelbase and m (21 ft) overall length. It weighed approximately 3175 kg (7000 lb) and used a L (12763 cc/778 in³) straight-8 engine. For comparison, the Royale is about as heavy as a large modern commercial pickup truck, such as a Ford Super Duty F-450, but it is about 10% longer. When compared to the modern Rolls-Royce Phantom, it is about 20% longer, and more than 25% heavier. Ettore Bugatti planned to build twenty-five of these cars, and sell them to royalty. But even royalty was not buying such things during the Great Depression, and Bugatti was able to sell only three of the six made. Today a Bugatti Royale is both one of the largest and rarest cars in the world. Design Crafted by Ettore Bugatti, the Type 41 is said to have come about because he took exception to the comments of an English lady who compared his cars unfavourably with those of Rolls-Royce. The prototype had a near 15-litre capacity, the production of litres engine (apx. ft ( m) long x ft ( m) high), is one of the largest automobile engines ever made, producing 205 to 223 kW (275 to 300 hp). Its cylinders, bored to 125 by 130 mm ( in), each displaced more than the entire engine of the contemporary Type 40 touring car. It had 3 valves per cylinder driven by a single overhead camshaft. Nine bearings were specified for reliability, but only a single custom carburettor was needed. All Royales were individually bodied, but its cast "Roue Royale" wheels measured 610 mm (24 inches) in diameter. The radiator cap was a posed elephant, a sculpture by Ettore's brother Rembrandt Bugatti.
Size: 5100px × 3400px
Location: Schlumpfs Museum Rue de l'Épée Mulhouse Alsace France
Photo credit: © Daniel Valla FRPS / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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