Racing by multiplication
The Type 35 turned one Grand Prix design into a family of customer racing cars. Cast-aluminium wheels carried the brake drums and its straight-eight tolerated sustained high revs. Continuous identity matters.
Market value · road
$1M–$4M
Typical $2.5M · 17 sales · -54% vs ’19–’20
Market & Price
A terminal for one car: the model curve over the documented record, the benchmarks it is measured against, and the instruments that read it.
Records: 32 documented road sales on file · 2003–2025; estimate band $1M–$4M · good road cars. recorded sale prices · mixed hammer and premium-inclusive basis.
Compound annual growth
| Window | This car* | S&P 500 | Gold |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Y | +58.5% | +18.8% | +21.9% |
| 5Y | +9.8% | +11.4% | +17.6% |
| 10Y | +3.8% | +13.3% | +11.8% |
*Modeled price CAGR · S&P is a price index, no dividends
Deepest drawdown · model window
Forecast ladder · model quantiles
| Horizon | P10 | P50 | P90 |
|---|---|---|---|
| +6M | $1.7M | $2.1M | $2.5M |
| +12M | $1.7M | $2.2M | $2.8M |
| +24M | $1.6M | $2.3M | $3.4M |
Median path with the 10th and 90th percentile · not investment advice
32 of 32 recorded sales · shown in USD · recorded currency in each record
Floor
$1M
Typical
$2.5M
Ceiling
$4M
Estimate band for good road cars. 17 documented sales since 2019 plotted below.
Band and axis shown in USD. Sale positions use indicative fixed-rate conversion to USD; sale readouts retain recorded currencies. Family-level USD band for documented Molsheim-built cars. Reconstructed, assigned-identity and continuation cars are separate markets.
Instrument calibration for this file is in progress — the terminal above reads the documented record directly.
Auction prices are recorded as published by the selling house. No currency conversions are applied.
Overview
Five Type 35s started the French Grand Prix at Lyon in August 1924. Tyre failures blunted the result, but the basic package was already present: a 2.0-litre straight-eight, a low frontal area and a 750 kg chassis built around low unsprung mass.
Displacement rose to 2.3 litres for the 35T, then Bugatti added its own three-lobe supercharger. The 35TC became the 35B, while detailed revisions to cooling, suspension, wheels and combustion continued through 1930.
Bugatti states that roughly 340 Type 35s were built, while also noting that the exact number is no longer clear. Surviving cars therefore require component-level research rather than a production total treated as exact.
Reference
The records
0
Victories
Bugatti's current count for the active period
0
Targa Florio wins
consecutive, 1925 to 1929
0kg
Launch weight
factory figure
HICON BID
A HICON Bid is a confidential expression of buying interest on the Bugatti Type 35 file — never public, never shown to other members. It is not a binding purchase, and HICONIUM holds no funds.
HICON Bids are a member instrument. Sign in to place one.
The vault
You keep one? The record starts in your garage — identity, papers, photography, and the market evidence this file already carries, bound to your chassis.
The variants
The register separates the Type 35 into its documented executions. One reference silhouette per execution — each opens as its own file as the archive fills.
35015 executions on file · references drawn to the house standard
The cars
Documented individual cars — chassis, colour, ownership and sale history. Open one for its full provenance. Public records only; members see the complete registry.
08 documented · public records
The hands
The people whose work shaped the Bugatti Type 35.
Designer and engineer
Defined the Type 35 package and drove its continuous development around low mass, reliability and customer competition.
Supercharger engineer
Worked with Ettore Bugatti on the three-lobe Roots-type supercharger used by the later Type 35 family.
