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Although Bugatti's motorsport heritage is primarily associated with French Racing Blue, many of the most elegant automobiles wore company founder Ettore Bugatti's favorite color combination: black and yellow. For Bugatti connoisseurs, a black and yellow painted super sports car not only embodies the famous two-tone Bugatti paintwork. Rather, it is a homage to the founder himself. Ettore Bugatti had many of his personal vehicles painted in the eye-catching combination. Their popularity has lasted through the Jean Bugatti era to the present day.
black and yellow
The history of black and yellow goes back to Ettore Bugatti's house in Molsheim. There the beams of the historic oak gate were painted in the two colors. At the beginning of his career as an automobile developer and producer, Ettore Bugatti painted most of his private vehicles black. It was only when Bugatti automobiles moved away from their traditional, motorsport-influenced Grand Prix designs and oriented themselves towards Art Deco that Ettore Bugatti declared the now famous two-tone design to be his favorite color combination. Many of his customers are now discovering this color combination for themselves and choosing a black and yellow finish for their own automobiles.
Ettore Bugatti's Type 41 Royale became particularly famous with its black and yellow paintwork. Around the same time, Bugatti painted an example of the Type 40 Roadster in the same color scheme, as did a Type 44. But the popularity of this design would only increase. With the Bugatti Type 55, a motorsport-inspired car powered by the Type 2,3's 51-litre in-line eight-cylinder engine, Jean Bugatti designed a gorgeous roadster that quickly became very popular. These roadsters still wear the timeless color combination of black and yellow today. In 1934, just two years after the Type 55 was introduced, Bugatti completed one of the most beautiful and elegant Bugatti roadsters of all time: the Type 57 Grand Raid Roadster Usine with a unique body by Gangloff. With a black and yellow finish, of course.
Even in the modern era of the company, Bugatti does not forget this color combination. In 2014, Bugatti presented the Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse "1-of-1". A black roadster with a contrasting yellow accent, yellow detailing on the wheels and EB logos, and a complementary interior. The black leather is complemented by yellow stitching and a yellow laser-perforated silhouette of the Veyron in the door panels.
Bugatti delivers the first produced Chiron* to North America in the eye-catching color combination with yellow and black painted carbon, including yellow light-alloy wheels with full paint finish. With the launch of the Chiron Pur Sport* 2020, Bugatti is once again reinventing the black and yellow combination: for a one-off with a bright "Jaune Molsheim" yellow. It is a special shade and a homage to Ettore Bugatti's original yellow. This hue is contrasted by visible turquoise carbon fiber.
“In almost everything we do, we are inspired by the Bugatti founding family. We invent our own technologies, just like Ettore Bugatti, and push the boundaries of design and elegance, just like Jean Bugatti, to create something unlike anything else on the road,” says Achim Anscheidt, Bugatti Design Director. As Ettore Bugatti once said, “If it's comparable, it's no longer Bugatti.” “That's why black and yellow is such an important combination for us, both for our design team and for our brand. Of course we always try to rethink them - Ettore Bugatti would never be satisfied with tradition for tradition's sake, but our founder's favorite colors will always remain closely linked to the Bugatti brand," explains Achim Anscheidt.
Today there are numerous black and yellow Bugatti automobiles in the Schlumpf collection, the world's largest Bugatti collection, housed at the Musée National de l'Automobile in Mulhouse, in the heart of Alsace. On an area of more than 25.000 square meters, 400 of the rarest, most magnificent and most valuable vehicles in the world are exhibited. Around 135 Bugatti models will be there, including two of only six Type 41 Royale ever built. The photos of these vehicles come from the Musée National de l'Automobile.
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