Volpi Foods - 118 year old family business of Lombard origin in St. Louis

Volpi Foods - Patience and Passion Since 1902

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VOLPI CRAFTS FOOD WITH CARE

We’re the only midwestern specialty foods company that makes our own dry-cured meats, letting nature perfect each flavor in our family’s authentic recipes. There are no shortcuts or artificial processes. We let nature take its time to bring our foods to their delicious peak with fresh local meats and few ingredients.

Volpi is mindful of what goes into our foods so that you can feel good about eating them.

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Our Heritage

In 1898, John Volpi arrived in America from his home in Milan, Italy, bringing with him little more than a craft and a vision. Having learned from his elders the ancient European art of dry curing, John had a dream of importing the centuries-old traditions across the ocean—thus continuing to serve his customers once they migrated to America.

Four years later, in 1902, he opened Volpi Foods at the intersection of two dirt roads in the St. Louis neighborhood known as The Hill. There, he created cacciatore—dried salami small enough to fit into the pockets of the local clay miners. He used only local ingredients and suppliers and dried the meats using the same method he’d learned in Italy: opening and shutting windows to control the temperature and humidity of the air that circulated throughout the room. The response to John’s exquisite craftsmanship was overwhelming. He soon added delicacies such as prosciutto, guanciale, pancetta, and coppa.

As demand grew, John expanded both his products and his personnel, recruiting his fourteen-year-old nephew, Armando Pasetti, from Italy. His new apprentice traveled by boat to his new home in America lived upstairs from the shop and learned the business just as his uncle had: from the bottom-up.

Armando swept the floors, tied sausages, and eventually, mastered every aspect of his uncle’s craft—right down to the opening and closing of the windows.

In 1957, upon John’s passing, Armando took the helm of the company, which was now a thriving business. In 1980, he continued to meet consumer demand by bringing Volpi Foods national and enlisted his daughter to help run the manufacturing plant. An eager pupil, Lorenza studied first-hand the techniques behind Volpi’s premium meats—and supplemented her culinary expertise with an MBA from Washington University.

In 2002, exactly 100 years after John Volpi opened his business, Armando passed the torch to Lorenza. Now, as president of Volpi Foods, Lorenza continues to refine her great-uncle’s craft—while adhering to the techniques he brought with him to America more than a century ago. Volpi Foods still relies exclusively on local suppliers. It still dries its meats by adjusting the temperature and humidity of natural airflows. It still prides itself on satisfying consumer needs. And it still sells cacciatore from its storefront in The Hill.


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Lidia's Italy in America with Volpi Foods

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Lidia's Italy in America stops by Volpi Foods in Saint Louis.


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Our Home

At Volpi Foods, we continue to improve on our traditions as we move forward to keep pace with our customers.

Our home remains on The Hill in St. Louis. There, as long-standing members of the community, we’ve been serving generations of meat lovers from the same storefront for more than 110 years. We also follow our customers, distributing Volpi Foods to locations throughout the country. And whenever those customers come back to The Hill, we’re ready to help them recapture the taste of the “old neighborhood.”

We prepare our meats in the same facility John Volpi opened in 1902, although we’ve added two more since then. Our meat is still sourced here in the Midwest. All of our farmers are within two hundred miles of our facilities, and all of our meat arrives within forty-eight hours of slaughter. As a result, our meat is the freshest anywhere. Plus, our pork has the ideal pH level to ferment naturally, which means we don’t steal flavor or nutrients by over-processing. Instead, we tolerate only the most minimal processing, allowing nature to take its course, and letting the natural flavors in the pork blossom.

Each of our facilities—Uno, Due, and Tre—comes with its own climate, humidity, and airflow. The conditions of each are paired with certain products, so we plan accordingly. They cure salami and other deli products in Uno, prosciutto and specialty items in Due, and Primo and Prep products in Tre. Our craftsmen continually adjust the conditions of each room, ensuring that all of our salume is prepared to perfection, and in the most natural way possible—individually, and by hand.


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Milanese heritage

"The Hill" in St. Louis was long ago a "Little Lombardy" in particular, and is still a mostly Italian neighborhood. Actually, the Lombard community was specifically from the Milano province. The Lombard community still in San Rafael, California also has it's roots specifically from the Milano province, and was also one of the dozen "Little Lombardys" from a century ago.

I purchased Volpi mortadella meat from Safeway in Daly City yesterday, without any knowledge of Volpi Foods. I saw they were in St. Louis, and I suspected the possible connection. What I also liked is that there are no nitrates or gluten.

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Giuseppina Bozzacchi - World famous Lombard ballerina even though she only lived to the day of her 17th birthday

Giuseppina Bozzacchi

Giuseppina Bozzacchi (November 23, 1853 – November 23, 1870) was an Italian ballerina, noted for creating the role of Swanhilda in Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia at the age of 16 while dancing for the Paris Opera Ballet.

Bozzacchi, who was born in Milan, had come to Paris to study with Mme Dominique. The choreographer Arthur Saint-Léon and the director of the Académie Royale de Musique, Émile Perrin, had been searching for a suitable Swanhilda, after deciding that none of the ballerinas previously considered – Léontine Beaugrand and Angelina Fioretti – were suitable, while Adèle Grantzow, the favorite ballerina of Saint-Léon, had started to prepare the role with choreography in 1868 but then fell seriously ill. In 1869 they even asked the composer, Léo Delibes, to seek out a suitable Swanhilda on his trip to Italy. He returned empty-handed; in the meantime, Saint-Léon and Perrin had discovered 16-year-old Bozzacchi.

She created the Swanhilda role on 25 May 1870 in the presence of Emperor Napoleon III. She repeated her success in the following weeks. In July an international dispute broke out between France and Prussia over the succession to the Spanish throne, and on July 19 France declared war. Bozzacchi danced Swanhilda for the 18th and last time on 31 August, when the Paris Opéra closed for the duration of the Franco-Prussian War. The Opéra had stopped paying salaries, and Bozzacchi, weakened by lack of food, became ill. She contracted smallpox and fever, and died on the morning of her 17th birthday. She was buried at Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris.


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Giuseppina Bozzacchi (Find A Grave)

Ballerina, She became famous for creating the role of 'Swanilda' in "Coppelia". Her career was one of the shortest of record. Trained with Amina Boschetti, a prima ballerina of Milan, then studied in Paris with Mme Dominique, she danced in "Coppleia" for the first time in 1870 but was only to perform the role 18 times before she caught a fever and passed away on her 17th birthday

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Coppélia

The Creation of Coppélia

Coppélia coming to Walnut Creek, CA March 21, 2020

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Cenomani postings - Summer 2019

[Map of Lombardy with Lombard place names, by Athicer at DeviantArt; The Cenomani was a Celto-Gaulish tribe which occupied most of what are now the provinces of Brescia and Verona]

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The great Lombard city of Cremona originally started as a Gaulish settlement at about 400 BC.

Multiple place names

One interesting thing to ponder are the numerous place names. For example, the Lombard province and city of Cremona. Some of the various names for Cremona:

Cremona (Italian)
Cremùna (Lombard/Cremonese)
Carmona (Emilian)
Carmùna (East Lombard?)
Crémone (French)
Crimona (Latin)
Kremun (German)


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The Mysterious Abandoned Villa on Lake Como, Lombardy

The strange thing about this villa in Lake Como is the complete mystery behind it. Locals understand that this villa was constructed in roughly the 1800s, but there are no records to indicate this.  Rumors state that the home was left alone after a gruesome murder or suicide – but still, no one knows. Today, it is left largely alone and visitors are advised to stay away from it. To us, it looks like the scene of a new horror film!


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Michigan law enforcement ace, the beautiful Laura Frizzo

Laura Frizzo Facebook

Go Fund Me: Laura Frizzo - Legal fees for former police chief

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Langobard Nation

Langobard Pinterest

Actual Langobard helmet

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The Incredible Story of the Bugatti in the Lake | Robb Report


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Robb Report

Published on Nov 19, 2018

According to legend, French race car driver René Dreyfus (winner of the Monaco Grand Prix in 1930) was in a liquor-fueled game of poker with Swiss playboy Adalbert Bodé in Paris in 1934. Short on cash, Dreyfus bet his 1925 Bugatti Type 22 Brescia race car and lost it to Bodé. Shortly thereafter, it found its way to the bottom of a lake, where it stayed for the rest of the century.

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When Bodé returned to Switzerland, he was stopped at the border and told that he could not take the car with him. As gambler’s fortunes tend to wax and wane, Bodé was notable to get the cash together to get the car out of customs, and it was marked for destruction like any other confiscated contraband. Being a different time, Swiss authorities decided the easiest, if not the most ecologically friendly, method of disposal would be to dump it into the Lago Maggiore.

There the masterpiece of French design sat until 2009, when it was finally recovered. Though many people knew the car was somewhere in the lake, no one had yet committed to bringing it up. Unfortunately, its reemergence was brought on by tragedy when a member of the local salvage diving club was beaten to death by three young people in a street attack. In an effort to raise money for a charity dedicated to preventing youth violence, the club committed to bringing up the car.

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1927 Bugatti Type 35 Pur Sang Replica - Jay Leno's Garage


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Fred Zamberletti, left, with Carl Eller

 and Red McCombs in 2002

Fred Zamberletti

Fred Zamberletti (May 28, 1932 – September 2, 2018) was an athletic trainer in American football.

Born in Melcher, Iowa, he was the athletic trainer for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. He was the team's first athletic trainer, assuming the job in the Vikings inaugural year of 1961. He was on the sidelines for every preseason, regular season and postseason game in Vikings history until the December 24, 2011 game at Washington against the Redskins. He attended the University of Iowa. Zamberletti was named the Professional Athletic Trainer of the Year in 1986 and in 1996 the Vikings staff was honored as the NFL Athletic Training Staff of the Year. He was inducted into the Vikings Ring of Honor on December 20, 1998.[1]

Death
Zamberletti died September 2, 2018 of spinal osteomyelitis. He was 86.[2]

References
1. "Minnesota Vikings Statements on Fred Zamberletti". www.vikings.com. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
2. https://www.twincities.com/2018/09/02/legendary-vikings-trainer-fred-zamberletti-dies-at-86/

External links
U of Iowa alumni page
StarTribune 12-23-2011
 

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Creamy baked mushroom risotto

Risotto - A dish of Milanese origin

Risotto

Course:    Primo
Place of origin:    Lombardy, Italy
Serving temperature: Hot
Main ingredients: Rice, broth, butter, onion, white wine, parmesan cheese

Cookbook: Risotto (recipes)

Media: Risotto

Risotto (from riso meaning "rice") is a northern Italian rice dish cooked with broth until it reaches a creamy consistency. The broth can be derived from meat, fish, or vegetables. Many types of risotto contain butter, onion, white wine, and parmesan cheese. It is one of the most common ways of cooking rice in Italy. Saffron was originally used for flavour and its attractive yellow colour. Risotto in Italy is normally a first course served before the main course, but risotto alla milanese is often served with ossobuco alla milanese as a main course.

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Lombard woman in traditional Medieval dress

Photo by Noemi Ventura

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Mediterranean cruise - Lake Como, Lombardy

Described by Wordsworth as ‘a treasure which the earth keeps to itself’, Lake Como is easily the most beautiful of all the Italian Lakes. With its Hollywood A-list following, rich silk heritage, must-see lakeside towns and surrounding hills, mountains and forests, it’s easy to see why these crystalline waters have captured the heart of the literati and glitterati for centuries. Housed in a 19th-century building right on Lake Como’s shores, Metropole Suisse is centrally located in the town of the same name, Como. But what makes it special is the high level of personal service – the Cassani family’s 123 years of ownership has made it one of the most welcoming waterfront stops.

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Light blue and white are the colors of the Brescian flag. "3V" stands for Tre Valli Bresciane (Three Brescian Valleys: Camonica, Trompia, and Sabbia).

'The 3V trail dedicated to Silvano Cinelli in the Brescian Valleys'

[Translated from the "Brescia A Tavola" travel website]

A single path, long and exciting, that unites the three Brescia valleys. Today we tell you about an evocative itinerary that winds through majestic landscapes, marked by blue-white signage. The 3V Trail,in 8 stages of about 5 hours each, is dedicated to Silvano Cinelli,one of the creators of this initiative. The full itinerary requires excellent physical preparation!

 
The first 4 stages...

The first stop is the Conche Sanctuary, almost 1000 years old. Along this ancient route of about 5 and a half hours of walking, you will meet various churches and chapels. After spending the night at the Sanctuary, the second stage leads to the Horn of sonclino, at over 1300 meters high. Between beech and rocky ridges, you can admire a magnificent view before descending to Lodrino, where the second stage ends after about 7 hours.

From Lodrino, stage 3 takes you to Alpe Pezzeda, near Collio. The summit of Mount Ario, at 1775 meters, offers an enchanting panoramic view of the Sand Valley. From here, the 4th stage crosses the Pezzeda Morning Pass. The short hike of about 3 hours ends at the Pass of the Portole, one of the highest peaks of this route, from which you can enjoy a magnificent view of the Trompia Valley.


... the last 4 stages

The fifth stage leads to the Monte Cimosco Refuge, at 1825 meters. During this stretch you leave the Sand Valley and enter Val Camonica. The route continues with the sixthstage, which in 6 hours leads to the Cross of Marone Refuge. On the summit of Mount Giglielmo, there is the spectacular monument of the Redeemer. The view of the Orobic Alps also includes the blue mirror of Lake Iseo.

Now only the last two stagesare missing. From the Cross Refuge of Marone, with 5 hours of walking you reach Polavena. From here you can take the means and go home. For the daredevils, a last 6-hour stage, from Polavena to Urago Mella, closes this magical 3V Trail and the adventure between Val Trompia, Val Sabbia and Val Camonica.

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The 150th anniversary of the passing of Lombard hero Carlo Cattaneo

'Italy marks 150th anniversary of the death of philosopher Carlo Cattaneo'

TheLocal.it - February 7, 2019

Both Italy and Switzerland are paying tribute to the philosopher and revolutionary who helped shape modern Italy

 Italian President Sergio Matterella today paid tribute to Italian philosopher Carlo Cattaneo, who died on February 5 1869, and a series of special events was announced to commemorate his life and work

Cattaneo is best known as an influential figure in the 'Risorgimento', the Italian unification movement led by Garibaldi.

He led Milan’s city council during the 1848 uprising in Lombardy against an occupation by Austrian forces under Marshal Radetzky.

In the so-called Five Days of Milan, residents of the northern Italian city rose up and boycotted tobacco and gambling, key revenues for the Austrians – which resulted in violent street clashes.

That protest is widely seen as the one of the incidents that kickstarted the Risorgimento, and Italy's drive towards independence and a unified nation state.

READ ALSO: Everything you need to know about March 17th, Italy's Unity Day

When the Austrians returned to occupy Milan in revenge for the uprising led by Cattaneo, the Italian philosopher was forced to flee to Lugano in late 1848, where he wrote his most famous work, History of the 1848 Revolution.

He died just over 20 years later in 1869 outside the Italian-speaking Swiss city of Lugano, where he had spent the last 20 years of his life in exile.

President Mattarella today described Cattaneo as “a great figure of the Italian Risorgimento, a builder of national unity, and a multifaceted intellectual who was able to combine thought with courageous political action aimed at progress and to social justice.”

He said Cattaneo’s thinking was still relevant across Europe today.

Cattaneo "was among the first to formulate the goal of the United States of Europe, as a framework of authentic federalism capable of maintaining independence, unity, freedom and solidarity,” he said.

“Thinking that still speaks to our responsibility as Europeans, today, in the face of the great changes we are experiencing.”

Now the Carlo Cattaneo Association, the Italian-Swiss Committee for the publication of Cattaneo's works, has organised events in both countries to mark the anniversary.

A series of talks and events in schools, museums and universities will cover everything from the philosopher's impact on European thought to his contemporary relevance.

The Five Days of Milan uprising, as well as other similar revolts across the Italian peninsula in 1848, contributed to Italy's First War of Independence.

Cattaneo was elected to the Italian parliament several times after Italy's unification in 1861. Each time he refused to take up his seat, citing resistance to swearing an oath to the king. 

Cattaneo always rejected Cavour and Garibaldi's overtures to join their movement because of opposition to its patron, Victor Emmanuel II, the king of the House of Savoy in Piedmont. Cattaneo was a lifelong and staunch republican.

Cattaneo died in 1869 in Castagnola, Lugano, an Italian-speaking part of Switzerland.

As Cattaneo was an important figure for both Italy and Switzerland, the commemorative events being held from March to October 2019 is transnational.

"Catteneo is one of the most important Italian-Swiss exiles," Pietro Montorfani, head of Lugano's historical archive, told The Local.

Events are scheduled in Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland, as well as in the Italian cities of Milan and Castellanza, home to Carlo Cattaneo University.

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Yogi Berra's 10 Best Quotes & Sayings

'Yogi Berra's 10 Best Quotes & Sayings'

By J.P. Scott - Athlon Sports & Life - April 4, 2018

The former Yankee catcher was universally liked, mostly due to his "Yogi Berraisms."

New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra passed away at the age of 90. An 18-time All-Star and 10-time World Series champion, Berra was not only one of the most accomplished catchers of all-time, he will go down as one of the greatest to ever wear the famous pinstripes of the New York Yankees.

The Missouri native played as an outfielder and as a catcher with the Yankees from 1946-63, followed by a short stint with the Mets. In addition to his playing experience, Berra was a manager in Major League Baseball with the Yankees in 1964 and again from 1984-85. He also managed the Mets from 1972-75.

Growing up as a Red Sox fan, I despised everything about the New York Yankees. I didn't like the players, the managers, the fans or those pinstriped uniforms. I didn't like any of their history either. You could say — like many people — I was a Yankee hater.

But I never hated Yogi Berra.

Yogi was baseball to kids growing up in New York. Your grandpa would talk about him like they were friends. If you played catcher, you were the next Yogi Berra.

But Yogi was bigger than just baseball, largely due to some of the crazy-yet-poiniant things he would say. The zaney statements came to be known as "Yogi Berra-isms." Here are some of his best:


Yogi Berra's 10 Best Quotes & Sayings

"When you get to a fork in the road, take it."

"It gets late early around here."

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

"The future ain't what it used to be."

"Ninety percent of this game is half mental."

"I really didn't say everything I said."

"You can observe a lot just by watching."

"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."

"If you don't know where you're going, you might end up someplace else."

"We have a good time together, even when we're not together."


A bonus (and perhaps the most famous of his fantastic baseball quotes):

"It ain't over till it's over."


Today, we're all sad it's over. Rest in Peace, Yogi.


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Yogi Berra was of Milanese/Lombard descent. He was from "The Hill" in St. Louis, which was a Milanese district going back to the 1880s up to about a century ago when it started to become a Sicilian district.

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Maria Gaetana Agnesi - Groundbreaking Milanese Mathematician: Part 2

Contributions to mathematics

Instituzioni analitiche

According to Dirk Jan Struik, Agnesi is "the first important woman mathematician since Hypatia (fifth century A.D.)". The most valuable result of her labours was the Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventù italiana, (Analytical Institutions for the Use of Italian Youth) which was published in Milan in 1748 and "was regarded as the best introduction extant to the works of Euler." In the work, she worked on integrating mathematical analysis with algebra. The first volume treats of the analysis of finite quantities and the second of the analysis of infinitesimals.

A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d'Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut (1730–1814), was published in Paris in 1775; and Analytical Institutions, an English translation of the whole work by John Colson (1680–1760), the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, "inspected" by John Hellins, was published in 1801 at the expense of Baron Maseres. The work was dedicated to Empress Maria Theresa, who thanked Agnesi with the gift of a diamond ring, a personal letter, and a diamond and crystal case. Many others praised her work, including Pope Benedict XIV, who wrote her a complimentary letter and sent her a gold wreath and a gold medal.

Witch of Agnesi

The Instituzioni analitiche..., among other things, discussed a curve earlier studied and constructed by Pierre de Fermat and Guido Grandi. Grandi called the curve versoria in Latin and suggested the term versiera for Italian, possibly as a pun: 'versoria' is a nautical term, "sheet", while versiera/aversiera is "she-devil", "witch", from Latin Adversarius, an alias for "devil" (Adversary of God). For whatever reasons, after translations and publications of the Instituzioni analitiche... the curve has become known as the "Witch of Agnesi"



Witch of Agnesi (full article)
 

Other

Agnesi also wrote a commentary on the Traité analytique des sections coniques du marquis de l'Hôpital, which, though highly praised by those who saw it in manuscript, was never published.


Later life

In 1750, on the illness of her father, she was appointed by Pope Benedict XIV to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy and physics at Bologna, though she never served. She was the second woman ever to be granted professorship at a university, Laura Bassi being the first. In 1751, she became ill again and was told not to study by her doctors. After the death of her father in 1752 she carried out a long-cherished purpose by giving herself to the study of theology, and especially of the Fathers and devoted herself to the poor, homeless, and sick, giving away the gifts she had received and begging for money to continue her work with the poor. In 1783, she founded and became the director of the Opera Pia Trivulzio, a home for Milan's elderly, where she lived as the nuns of the institution did.


Remembrance

Witch of Agnesi, a curve
A crater on Venus
Asteroid 16765 Agnesi (1996)

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Bugatti Veyron Super Sport hits 246 mph on public road

 
Although the company having changed hands internationally over time, and now owned by Volkswagon; the name "Bugatti" will always be tied to its Milanese founder Ettore Bugatti.


From the video description (TheStradman):

1200 HP Bugatti Veyron Super Sport Pur Blanc hits 246.4 MPH!!

This $2.8M, 1200 HP Bugatti Veryon Super Sport Pur Blanc 1/1 hit 246.4 mph to set a new course record at the 2014 Sun Valley Road Rally!

The Pur Blanc is a One of One commissioned for Ben Chen. The Super Sport is a limited edition version of the Bugatti Veyron that set the production car record for top speed. Only 30 Super Sport Veyrons exist. The Super Sport set the record for fastest production car with a top speed of 267mph.

The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is powered by a 8.0L W16 that produces a whopping 1200 horsepower. The standard Bugatti Veyron produces 1,001 horsepower. The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is valued at USD $2.8 million. The Bugatti Veyron is quad turbocharged; it has 4 turbochargers. The Bugatti Veyron gets 8mph in the city and 12mpg on the highway.

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport hits 246 mph on public road (gallery in link)

By Jeff Glucker - MotorAuthority.com - July 28, 2014

Going fast on a private stretch of race track is quite enjoyable. Especially when there happens to be enough room to really let the car stretch its legs. That is why Volkswagen owns the Ehra-Lessien testing facility in Germany, which comes with a 5.4-mile long straight. It's also the perfect place to find the upper limits of a Bugatti Veyron. Sometimes though, an owner might get a chance to push his machine in a setting that's not quite as prepared for such an endeavor.

The 2014 Sun Valley Road Rally recently took place near Ketchum, Idaho. This event turns the beautiful stretch of Highway 75 into a closed-to-public-traffic roadway that sees high-powered vehicles running as hard as they can. The proceeds go to a charity, people have a good time, and fast cars are exercised extremely well.

It was at this event where a handful of Bugatti Veyrons took to the road to see just what they could accomplish. One of the Veyron beasties in attendance happened to be of the Super Sport variety. Actually, to make it even more rare, it is also a Pur Blanc. Of the 30 Super Sports built, Bugatti produced just one in Pur Blanc guise.

The driver of the car managed to hit a top speed of 246.4 miles per hour at one point, about 21 mph down on the car's record top speed. Nevertheless, this is, as you might imagine, a new record for the Sun Valley Road Rally. Thankfully, someone captured a brief piece of the run on video, which you can see above. It's pretty amazing to note that what sounds like a jet in the distance... is the car.

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Ultra rare Bugatti could be world’s most expensive car

The founder of the Bugatti automobile, Ettore Bugatti, was Milanese. We can cover more about that history at a future time. See images on the link below.

Ultra rare Bugatti could be world’s most expensive car

A 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic — one of just four made — sold recently to a private buyer, and its reported price is, in a word, stunning. Just how much, you ask? Well, auction house and broker Gooding & Company is keeping mum, but reports put the transaction at a stunning $30 million to $40 million.

The car used to be the flagship of the Williamson Bugatti Collection and took Best in Show at the 2003 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It doesn’t get much better than that.

According to Gooding & Co., the car was derived from Bugatti’s prototype Aerolithe Electron Coupe, and this particular car was the first of four made, whose restoration “has been revered by enthusiasts throughout the world.”

The car’s new owner has not been disclosed, but Gooding & Co. said the buyer is “a devoted connoisseur who will become the guardian of this treasured piece of automotive history.”

“I am extremely pleased to have found the new buyer for the 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, one of the world’s most significant and valuable automobiles that has been in a private collection and rarely seen during the past four decades,” David Gooding, president and founder of Gooding & Company, said in a statement. “It has been a great pleasure to work with the Williamson Family and Trust in this important endeavor.”

As for that astonishing price, reported on Autoblog.com, if it’s accurate the transaction would far eclipse a record set last year: $12 million for a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa.

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