Miata Mailing List: December 1999, Message #365

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do you have a link for a pic of the car?


----- Original Message -----
From: Aradia <aradia@teleport.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <miata@realbig.com>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Cool car trivia (NMC)


> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Lisa E. wrote:
>
> > 49. Bigger than anybody's.
> > The Ford Excursion hasn't got anything, sizewise, on
> > the Bugatti Type 41 Royale of 1927-1932. That one
> > stretched nearly 21 feet, weighed over 7000 pounds,
> > was about as tall as the Excursion at 78.7 inches, and
> > it was a car. Its in-line eight-cylinder engine
> > displaced 12.7 liters, yet was rated at just 300
> > horsepower. It became much more popular as a
> > locomotive powerplant-only six Type 41 Royales were
> > ever built, and just three were sold, which isn't
> > surprising considering this car's price, more than
> > double that of a Rolls-Royce of the time-500,000
> > French francs.
>
> Oh, hell yeah. The Bugatti Royale is also considered to be the most
> expensive car in the world, IIRC, at approx US$15,000,000. It was featured
> number one in a list of, I believe, the top ten most desirable and
> affluent cars in the world by DuPont Registry some years back. If you've
> never seen a picture of a Royale, go do so immediately. =)
>
>
> -- Sean...
>    Team Voodoo!
>    Team Frou-Vroom =)
>
>
>