Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. () is a French
luxury automobile
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The term is subjective and reflects both the qualities of the car and the b ...
manufacturer and luxury brand for
hyper
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Arts and entertainment
* ''Hyper'' (2016 film), 2016 Indian Telugu film
* ''Hyper'' (2018 film), 2018 Indian Kannada film
* ''Hyper'' (magazine), an Australian video game magazine
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sports car
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s. The company was founded in 1998 as a subsidiary of the
Volkswagen Group
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and is based in
Molsheim
Molsheim () is a commune and a subprefecture in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. ,
Alsace
Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it ha ...
, France. The Bugatti name was first made famous by
Ettore Bugatti
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (15 September 1881 – 21 August 1947) was an Italian-born French automobile designer and manufacturer. He is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti, wh ...
(1881–1947), who established the original
Bugatti
Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a German then French manufacturer of high-performance automobiles. The company was founded in 1909 in the then- German city of Molsheim, Alsace, by the Italian-born industrial designer Ettore Buga