How much would you spend on your children and grandchildren at Christmas?
A German grandfather decided to really push the boat out however and ordered each of his five grandchildren a Bugatti Baby II you see here – costing as much as €55k per car. Scary, right? Those kids must’ve impeccably behaved through 2020.
But what about this present-to-end-all-presents, the Bugatti Baby II? It’s essentially a miniature version of the firm’s Type 35, which was the quickest car of its day in the 1920s, and is exceptionally valuable today. One sold at auction for $3.3m (approx. €2.8m) in 2017, as an example.
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But the original ‘Baby’ arguably has a better story. Designed as a one-off toy car for the founder of Bugatti’s eldest child’s fourth birthday, the sports car firm’s discerning customers quickly spotted the model on display while visiting its factory in Molsheim, France, and wanted one of their own.
Five hundred would be produced between 1927 and 1936, and the ‘Baby’ would be reborn in 2019 at the Geneva Motor Show as a slightly oddball way for Bugatti to celebrate its 110th birthday.
A little over 18 months later and...
