The Bugatti Gangloff is like the chocolate cake with vanilla flavor buttercream icing of the high-class supercar world… self indulgent… decadent… sexy… sinful. It was motivated not by delayed designs like the Veyron or the mighty Galibier, but rather one of the oldies of the brand: the Thirties Gangloff S57. What exactly is under the hood? Who cares… it’s much too fairly to drive anyway.
Between Godalming and Haslemere, in Surrey, near the English village of Witley, once stood one of the most lavish private residences in the world —the Witley Park. Originally called Lea Park, it belonged to a man named Whitaker Wright who made his fortune by defrauding shareholders of hundreds of million pounds —not once, but twice in two different continents. At the peak of his financial crimes, Wright bought the vast 1,400-acre Victorian estate from the 15th Earl of Derby and built an extravagant 32-bedroom mansion, among other things like a racecourse, a theater and a private hospital.