The Type 41 Royale prototype was completed in 1927 with a 4,572 mm (180 in.) wheelbase; this would be reduced by 254 mm (10 in.) when it went into production.

A new V-16 engine will power the hypercar Bugatti only last month took the wraps off the final Chiron built, but the French performance marque is already ready to show us its next hypercar.

As for the Avio 8C engine, it laid the foundation for the one that powered the renowned and extremely rare 1926 Bugatti Type 41 Royale, a gargantuan automobile of which only six examples were made.

New Bugatti hypercar: V16 hybrd engine details The next Bugatti will be the first production car in decades to use such an engine, the last having been the ultra-rare Cizeta-Moroder V16T in 1991.