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Bugatti’s bijou boat

he gargantuan Type 41 Royale limousine, of which just six were built, is considered to be Ettore Bugatti’s great white elephant. Rather rarer is the Bugatti Type 75 You-You, a yacht tender produced in Paris in the early post-WW2 years as the once pre-eminent marque

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