To call the Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic a car is like calling a Faberge jewel an egg or a Cohiba Behike a rolled-up tobacco leaf. Now 80 years old, the French automaker’s pièce de résistance—of which ...

Bugatti was the pride of the French carmaking industry a century ago, but, like other French achievements from the past, it ended up in German hands. This time, however, the change of ownership has ...