The Bugatti Type 41, better known as the Royale, was a large luxury car with a 4.3 m (169.3 in) wheelbase and 6.4 m (21 ft) overall length.
It weighed approximately 3175 kg (7000 lb) and used a 12.7 L (12763 cc/778 in³) straight-8 engine.

(For comparison, the Royale is about as heavy as a large modern commercial pickup truck, such as a Ford Super Duty F-450, but it is about 10% longer.)

Ettore Bugatti planned to build twenty-five of these cars, and sell them to royalty.
But even royalty was not buying such things during the Great Depression, and Bugatti was able to sell only six.

None were eventually sold to any royals, and Bugatti even refused to sell one to King Zog of Albania, claiming that
"the man's table manners are beyond belief!"

All six production Royales still exist (the prototype was destroyed in an accident in 1931), and each has a different body, some having been rebodied several times.

A Bugatti specialist told me that each of the 7 cars or chassis had a double,
and that makes six left wich disappeared when the company closed down its automobile operation in the late 50s.

I have an elephant sculpture by Rembrandt Bugatti, Etrore's younger brother, who was a strange person but one of the two or three most famous animal scuptors of all ages.
This elephant is probably the most famous of them all.
The silver elephant mascot that sits on top of the radiator of the Bugatti Royale was cast from Rembrandt's original sculpture.
During World War I the Antwerp Zoo was forced to kill most of its wild livestock.
This deeply affected Bugatti because he had used many of these animals as objects for his sculpture.
In 1916, at the age of 31, he killed himself.
The sculpture is in my house in Paris where I go back for some days in some weeks.
I'll bring it back to the states.