Bugatti Type 5

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Bugatti Type 5 is the common name for a vehicle model made by the car manufacturer De Dietrich . Two copies of this racing car were made between 1902 and 1903 as De Dietrich, License Bugatti 60CV course .

Ettore Bugatti had built his first automobile before he was 21 and drove it in races. In 1901 he won the Grand Prix in Milan with an automobile he had designed. He presented this racing car, known as the Bugatti Type 2, at the International Exhibition in Milan that same year, where it attracted the attention of the Alsatian industrialist Eugène de Dietrich . He engaged Bugatti as a designer for a new series of automobiles that were offered alongside licensed products from the Marseille-based automaker Turcat-Méry . These models are also called Dietrich-Bugatti .

The Type 5 is by far the most powerful of the three models and is intended for racing. Types 3 and 4 were luxurious passenger cars with similar construction elements . Because Bugatti had worked on all three models before joining De Dietrich, the chronological order can no longer be precisely determined. Work on the Type 5 must have started in 1902 because Bugatti wanted to use it to take part in the Paris-Madrid race, among other things . Because the seats were too far back and did not allow a clear view of the street, the two Type 5s were disqualified by the technical inspectors even before the start in Paris. It can also be assumed that the Alsatian homeland of the De Dietrich, Hermes-Simplex - and from 1909 also the Bugatti car, which had belonged to the German Empire as the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine since 1871 , caused a disqualification for national reasons. Ultimately, Ettore Bugatti (with the starting number 142) was not allowed to start and thus missed a "disaster race" in which several drivers and some spectators were killed.

As a result, Bugatti converted at least one of the two Type 5s to a more conventional steering system with a slightly raised seating position. Bugatti has contested at least one race with the converted Type 5.

The Bugatti types 3, 4 and 5 designed for De Dietrich also influenced Bugatti's later designs for Hermes-Simplex and Deutz .

Technical specifications

Parameters Data
construction time 1902-1903
Number produced 2
engine Inline four-cylinder, cylinders cast in pairs
Displacement 12867 cc
Engine control Overhead valves
Engine cooling Evaporative cooling with cylinders enclosed in pairs by copper water jackets
ignition 1 ignition coil per cylinder, rotary distributor
transmission Four-speed
Power transmission Shaft and differential on gears and chains

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  • Hugh G. Conway: Les Grandes Marques: Bugatti. Gründ, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-7000-5175-0 , pp. 8-9. (French)

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