page_title: Bugatti Royale
section_title: 41100 - Coupé Napoleon
hierarchical_section_title: Bugatti Royale / Production / 41100 - Coupé Napoleon
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Bugatti Type 41 Royale Coupe in the Musée National de l'Automobile
context_page_description: The Bugatti Type 41, better known as the Royale, is a large luxury car built from 1927 to 1933 with a 4.3 m wheelbase and 6.4 m overall length. It weighs approximately 3,175 kg and uses a 12.763 litre straight-eight engine. For comparison, against the Rolls-Royce Phantom VII, the Royale is about 20% longer, and more than 25% heavier. This makes the Royale one of the largest cars in the world.
  Ettore Bugatti planned to build twenty-five of these cars and sell them to royalty as the most luxurious car ever, but even European royalty were not buying such things during the Great Depression, and Bugatti was able to sell only three of the seven made.
context_section_description: The first car is chassis number 41100, now known as the Coupé Napoleon.
  It was used by Ettore Bugatti, and in his later life became his personal car. It remained in the family's possession, housed at their Ermenonville chateau, until financial difficulties forced its sale in 1963. It subsequently passed into the hands of the obsessive Bugatti collector Fritz Schlumpf.
  It originally had a Packard body. It was rebodied by Parisian coach builder Weymann as a two-door fixed head coupe. The Weymann body was replaced after the car was crashed by Ettore Bugatti, who in 1930 or 1931 fell asleep at the wheel travelling home from Paris to Alsace, necessitating a major rebuild.
  At various stages, it was also fitted with other bodies.
  Bricked up with 41141 and 41150 during World War II at the home of the Bugatti family in Ermenonville, to avoid being commandeered by the Nazis.
  Sold by L'Ebe Bugatti in the early 1960s to the brothers Schlumpf
  Resides in the Musée National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse, alongside 41131 that the Schlumpf brothers had acquired from John Shakespeare.
caption: Chassis no.41100, known as the Coupé Napoleon, at home in the Musée National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse
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