Bugatti

Bugatti has unveiled a new Chiron Sport model at the Geneva Motor Show, promising the same power and performance with better handling and capability. The Chiron Sport shaves significant times off the lap, for just a couple of hundred thousand Euros more.

Rétromobile has been running since 1976, when the most expensive car in the world cost less than $100,000 and long before the term retro had become fashionable. It is one of those places where auctions truly can throw up some remarkable objets d'automotive art. This year it did not disappoint.

The Bugatti marque was once the most revered of them all. Twice it has been resurrected, but several spectacular showings this week at Retromobile indicate the Bugatti name is returning to its glorious former levels.

A Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic has won the 2017 Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award in Paris. The defacto world championship for concours cars, the award pits the winning cars from the eight most important concours events in the world each year, creating an annual champion of champions.

There have been many fabulous children's cars we have chronicled over the last few years, ​ but this 1927 4.5-liter Bentley scale replica children's car heads for sale during Retromobile in Paris this week, and it is estimated at just €5,000 to €7,000.​

The Scottsdale Auction Week provides the lens through which the remainder of each automobile auction year is viewed​. Here's our take on the market, plus a cross section of the most interesting cars offered last week in Scottsdale.

The name Bugatti is associated with bleeding edge motor cars rather than 3D printing, but the company has announced that it has produced a new brake caliper that is not only the largest in the motor industry but is the largest component to be printed from titanium alloy.

The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award takes the winning cars from the eight most important concours events in the world each year, and has them judged by an unimpeachable panel of experts. This year the winner will be announced during Rétromobile in Paris on February 8, 2018.

Just weeks after Bugatti set a new 0-400-0 km/h world record in the Chiron, Koenigsegg has smashed it with the Agera RS. The plucky (or mad) Swedes shaved almost five seconds from the record, and did it without the considerable might of the VW Group for backing.

Our Monterey Car Week report covers the 113 cars with estimates over US$1 million and what happened to them.

The Bugatti Chiron debuted last year at the Geneva Motor Show. A year later, Bugatti delivered the very first examples in Europe and the Middle East. Now, the Chiron has officially made its way to the United States, a yellow-and-black model having been delivered to its owner this past weekend.

Our regular Monterey Car Week auction preview lists no less than 113 cars with estimates exceeding US$1 million. Read on for pictures, links to auction descriptions and all the key info.