Paolo Stanzani: “I’m Tired of Building Toys for Rich, Spoiled People” The Lamborghini Miura exists because two young Italian engineers were obsessed with a race car built in Dearborn, Michigan. That’s not a stretch. Ferruccio Lamborghini had explicitly forbidden his staff from building anything resembling a competition car — racing was an expense he had … Read more
Campogalliano: the Bugatti factory that’s been locked up with everything inside for thirty years Type “abandoned Bugatti factory” into YouTube and you’ll get hundreds of results. Drone shots over a vast blue complex outside Modena. Urbex channels with creaky soundtracks pushing through cobwebbed corridors. Hagerty journalists being walked around by a softly spoken Italian called … Read more
Bugatti EB110: the supercar that arrived ten years before the future caught up Ask most people under forty when Bugatti returned to building cars and you’ll get the same answer. The Veyron. 2005. Volkswagen. End of story. That’s wrong by about fourteen years and one country. Before the W16, before Wolfsburg’s open chequebook, before the … Read more
