Ettore Bugatti (15 September 1881 – 21 August 1947) was an Italian-French automobile designer and manufacturer. He received French citizenship in 1946 and is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti, which he founded in 1909 in the then German town of Molsheim in the Alsace region of what is now France. Bugatti died in Paris and is buried in Dorlisheim, France. Bugatti's concept of customer relations was somewhat eccentric. To a Bugatti owner who complained that his car was difficult to start on cold mornings, he is said to have retorted, "Sir! If you can afford a Type 35, you can surely afford a heated garage!“ Another famous line he told to a customer complaining about the brakes in one model was, "I make my cars to go, not stop!“ He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2000. We celebrate his birthday with his iconic Bugatti Type 35 …