Bugatti Chief Franz-Josef Paefgen says a total of only 30 to 40 will be produced.
This unveiling took place against the unveiling of a restored Bugatti T57S Electron Torpedo.
Headquartered in Wolfsburg, Volkswagen holds brands including Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini and nearly half of Porsche.
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The Galibier (16-cylinder, 800hp), Bugatti's first modern four-door saloon, which will probably roll out in late 2013.
The production started with a Bugatti Veyron Sport that was transformed using layers of tape applied in sinuous lines.
But the Bugatti Veyron placed on the baddie list, as did two Bentleys.
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Each marked line was filled in by hand in trademark Bugatti blue and a five layer coat of clear lacquer.
The Bugatti is an absolutely phenomenal sports car that feels like a 95-octane sewing machine when you drive it around town.
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Those numbers nearly match the Bugatti Veyron, which costs four times as much and packs hundreds more horses under the hood.
The Cartier Roadster, the Pirelli P Zero and the Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti Type 370 have also been coveted among enthusiasts.
The luxury vehicles, including Bugatti, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Ferrari, and Aston Martin, drew huge crowds during the 14th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition.
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Odette Siko and Marguerite Mareuse, a couple of Frenchwomen, drove a Bugatti in the 24 Hours of LeMans endurance race of 1932.
For men, one finds brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Bugatti, Olymp and Weltstein.
Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Maserati and Porsche, to name a few, have ensured there will be plenty of hot cars to go around.
It's worth repeating: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is the fastest production car in the world--faster than an underwater torpedo or a bullet train.
With the invention of the motorcar at the turn of the 20th century, the company shifted into making trunks for elite automobiles like Bugatti and Delahaye.
Bugatti showed the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, a 1, 200-horsepower convertible packed with a 8.0-liter, quad-turbocharged W16 engine that tops out at 267 miles per hour.
Others boasted about double-digit growth in Asia or the fact that an American casino heir had an extremely expensive timepiece custom-made to match his Bugatti Vitesse.
Hublot showed off its newest Big Bang Ferrari and Parmigiani Fleurier showed its new Bugatti Vitesse titanium watch and the Bugatti Super Sport watch in rose gold.
Racer Pierre-Henri Raphanel proved it in July, when he pushed the speedometer of this third and final edition of Bugatti's iconic Veyron line to 268 miles per hour.
Besides VW itself, there is Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducati, SEAT, Skoda, MAN, Scania and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, most of which are multibillion-dollar businesses in their own right.
Inside its mirrored main room is a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 in liquid silver by the artist Olaf Nicolai, which is made even more dramatic by the lights from a neon work by Anselm Reyle.
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Bugatti EB110, Koenigsegg, Spyker, to name a few.
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Porcelain is the standout feature on both the exterior and interior surfaces, and was inspired by sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti and his brother Ettore who collaborated on the elephant radiator mascot for the original Bugatti Royale.
These include highly desirable (and, obviously, well-secured) rides like the Bentley Azure and Brooklands, Bugatti Veyron, BMW M3, M5 and M6, Dodge Viper, Porsche Boxster or Cayman and the entire Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce lineups.
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Concours, an elite automotive expo and beauty contest where cars of only the highest caliber--Bugatti, Duisenberg, Packard, Rolls-Royce--compete in 28 different classes, from which one car wins best in show.
That Bugatti comes with a backstory.
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More than a decade ago, VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, commissioned a vanity project to rival the pyramids: to resurrect the great French luxury and racing marque Bugatti, right down to Ettore Bugatti's l'orangerie in Molsheim, in Alsace, France, and build there the greatest sports car of all time, with no compromise.
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