The cocktail napkin sketch is a tired cliche of creativity, but that is how the Bugatti Veyron came to be, almost. The Veyron started out as an impromptu sketch, but on the back of an envelope, not a ...

From a distance, the modern homage might be mistaken for a Veyron; Bugatti has revisited the color scheme of Veyron Chassis #001, albeit with far more complex techniques than in 2005. The side-by-side ...

Many auto companies have created spectacular engines. Bugatti’s most modern incarnation is likely unique in having reversed that equation. This was a car company built around an engine—and not even ...

Ferdinand Piëch had a dream: To build an 18-cylinder engine out of three six-cylinder engines. It was not Piëch's first outlandish idea nor would it be his last. But in 1997, the then-chief executive ...

Top Gear: We heard that many years ago you had sketched a ‘Veyron facelift’ that never came to be. Is that true? Tell us the story. Frank Heyl: Yes, there was an inbetween stage. We were working on ...