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Jacques-Olivier Martin: "From Bugatti to Elon Musk"

2021-07-11T23:20:03.593Z


CHRONICLE - The two men have automotive innovation in common. Sports for the eldest, of course. No engine rumble, no overhead valves, but an automotive revolution all the same for its worthy descendant.


Bugatti is to the automobile what Google is to the internet… a matter of engines.

Thus, the industrial revolutions pass, but the fundamentals of innovation remain.

The company created by Sergey Brin and Larry Page invented the absolute search engine;

Ettore Bugatti remains one of the most brilliant engine manufacturers in automotive history.

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His entrepreneurial adventure has nothing to envy to the success stories of modern times.

It is quite naturally from a garage that the young Italian made his first inventions.

In 1899, then 18 years old, he made his first car - the Type 1, an automobile with four motors on the rear axle.

The following year, it is the Type 2 and its three-liter four-cylinder, with a four-speed gearbox and reverse gear.

The Bugatti 57 G, winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1937. www.alamy.com/Alamy Stock Photo / Abaca

A hundred years ago, talent already knew no borders.

At the turn of the century, Baron de Dietrich debauchery young Ettore and brought him to Alsace to accelerate his diversification into

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Source: lefigaro

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