Many reasons why an in-line 8 made for some gorgeous cars
When a new engine layout becomes popular, it tends to hang around for a very long time., is a rare exception.
engine was used in a production model for the first time the following year when it powered the Type 30, which was also the first Bugatti withA high-performance car rather than a luxury one in the manner of the Leyland and the Isotta Fraschini, the Type 30 was manufactured until 1926, when it was replaced by the similar Type 38. Other straight eight Bugattis, one of which will be mentioned separately, were produced for several more years before the original company faded away in the 1950s.
It was also exceptionally expensive, which proved to be unfortunate during the Depression-hit 1930s. Very few Royales were ever built, but the engine had a happier fate, being used inunit fitted to the Nürburg, whose name reflected the fact that it had been tested extensively at the recently completed Nürburgring race circuit. Unfashionably tall even for 1928, the car was redesigned to look lower and more elegant before the end of the following year..
The D8 remained in production until 1940, by which time Delage had been taken over by Delahaye. The car was also fitted with a straight eight of some sort, but for various reasons the capacities ranged widely fromwas a plausible rival to the eight-cylinder version of the Wolseley 21/60, but it was more expensive and very quickly developed a reputation for bearing failure. With all that going against it, sales were, understandably, terrible., didn’t help much.
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