Bugatti Type 252

Bugatti sports car No 252. 1

The Bugatti Type 252 is a two-seater sports car with a 1.5 liter capacity that is designed as a prototype of the historic Bugatti 1957-1962, but from a total of only one copy was built.

History

The Bugatti Type 252 was the result of a sports car study from 1954, conducted by Roland Bugatti, the youngest son of the company founder Ettore Bugatti and the brother of Jean Bugatti. Conceived by Roland Bugatti sports car as a successor to Bugatti Type 252, did not come to the prototype status addition and never went into production and was abandoned for financial reasons. The only built prototype vehicle and is now in the Automobile Museum Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National - Collection Schlumpf in Mulhouse in Alsace, France. The Type 252 was to take a last attempt with a new model on the market again walk and eventually foundered on the lack of money, just like the previous test with the racing car Type 251 After the model is not allowed to produce in series, the company adopted final of the automotive production and led then only by repairs or renovation of old Bugattis.

Roland Bugatti sold the company due to accumulated high debts and losses ultimately in 1963 to the French Air and Space Company ( and former car manufacturer ) Hispano -Suiza. The collector Fritz and Hans Schlumpf acquired in 1963 followed by Roland Bugatti and the other heirs of the Type 252 and the remaining Bugattis, including all prototypes, engines and spare parts for their collection. At the same time secured the brothers secured by contract the right to overhaul, repair and maintenance of cars.