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The ultra exclusive limited Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is currently the most powerful, most expensive, and fastest street-legal production car in the world, with a top speed of 407 kph. It is named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for Bugatti. The Bugatti Veyron, as a piece of design, its a thing of exquisite beauty, style and elegance, and is a credit to the Bugatti portfolio, but as a machine, it is unsurpassed by anything any car manufacturer has ever created. Speed, style, glamour and expense, at last the Bugatti brand is back where it belongs.
Enzo Ferrari worked at Alfa Romeo through most of the 1920s before deciding to build his own racing and road cars. After years of modifying and building racing cars using Fiat and Alfa Romeo components, Ferrari set up shop in Maranello, Italy, and produced his own car in 1948, the Tipo ("Type") 166. As would be the Ferrari tradition for many years, its name was derived from the displacement of a single cylinder in cubic centimeters. As it was a V12, total displacement equaled just 2 liters. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, such greats as the 250 GT, 250 GTO and 275 GTB were produced, clothed in beautiful bodies that were penned by Pininfarina, the design house that Ferrari still uses to this day.
As with many great passions the history of Lamborghini is the story of one man’s all consuming passion to produce the ‘perfect car’. Ferruccio Lamborghini was born on the 28th April 1916 in a small village called Renazzo, near Bologna, Italy. The family came from a fairly humble farming background but the young Renazzo did not show any interest in carrying on the family business. It became clear that his passion was for all things technical. Lamborghini’s quest for a technical education took him to Bologna, before he joined the Italian Army. It was during WWII that Lamborghini was captured by the Allied Forces and became a prisoner of war on the Island of Rhodes. Remarkably his talent for all things mechanical resulted in him being put in charge of the maintenance of British Military Vehicles on the island despite his status as a prisoner of war.
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The Lamborghini Motorbikes was designed in as a result of a close collaboration between Lamborghini and the French leading-edge racing bike constructor Boxer-Bike. Boxer Bike has been famous since the seventies for their sophisticated racing bikes: hand-built in Toulouse (the French Aircraft and Aerospace Valley) with extensive use of aerospace-technology, ultra lightweight frames theses motorbikes offered the highest. Performance
Honda was founded in the late 1940s as Japan struggled to rebuild following the second World War. Company founder Soichiro Honda first began manufacturing piston rings before turning his attention to inexpensive motorcycles. Mr. Honda always had a passion for engineering, and this became evident by the wild sales success of his motorcycles in the 1960s and by competing head-to-head against the world’s best on racetracks. Today, Honda is a juggernaut, offering class-leading machines in most every category
The company is founded by Shozo Kawasaki. His firm will come to be known as Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Over time, the company’s principal areas of activity will be shipbuilding, railroad rolling stock, and electrical generating plants. Motorcycles will become a small part of this diversified industrial conglomerate. Kawasaki signs agreement to take over Meguro motorcycles, a major player in the nascent Japanese motorcycle manufacturing business. Meguro is one of the only Japanese companies making a 500cc bike. In England and the UK, Meguro’s 500 – which bears a strong resemblance to the BSA A7 – is derided as a cheap copy. But in fact, it is a pretty high-quality bike.