It is supposed to mean “the black car” in French, but what do you think?
(I only drink home brewed black coffee.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2019/03/05/bugatti-reveal
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It means The Black Car alright. Seems a bit simplistic of a name… for the French, of course. For the non-French speaking public is sounds positively cultured! The reported new owner, however speaks German, English and probably French as well.
Still, what if he wanted a blue one? La Voiture Bleu??
i think that phrase literally means just what you say, “Black Car”. So it is like a Model T, you can have it in any color you like, as long as it is black.
Do you ever take your home brew w/you in a thermos and later find you are drinking it at a coffee shop? Je fais mon café à la maison et le bois au café!! 
I don’t go to coffee shops or restaurants. Food and beverage is strictly DYI for me. I bank the savings and health benefits.
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One time I told a judge if he imposed a $100 fine for a traffic ticket my response would be to eat at home rather than take a friend to dine in a restaurant the next weekend, and use the difference to pay the fine. So the fine wouldn’t penalize me, I’d still eat the same as if I went to the restaurant. The fine instead would take $100 out of the pocket of the restaurant owner, the wait-staff, and $10 from the state of Calif. There’s no sales tax on food purchased in grocery stores but there is a 10% sales tax on restaurant purchases. I thought this a pretty good argument.
The judge looks at me, up one side and down the other, and proclaims: You don’t look like much of a chef. Your penalty is you’ll have to eat your own cooking!! Pay on the way out. … lol
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A one off built for a customer that was inspired by the Type 57 SC Atlantic. Almost makes the price of a Chiron look reasonable.
Similarly, the Maserati Quattroporte’s name simply means “Four Door”.
To language-challenged Americans, it sounds… I guess… elegant or exotic.
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Sort of like Ricardo Montalban extolling the virtues of a Chrysler Cordoba and its rich Corinthian leather.
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Yes, but the late Mr. Montalban’s spiel was really ridiculous.
Let’s see…
… a Mexican actor extolling the virtues of an American-made car that is labeled with the name of a heavily-Moorish city in Spain, and which was supposedly upholstered with leather imported from Greece.
Truly, truly ludicrous.
It’s all about the sound of it, like klactoveedsedstene.
THAT I had to look up! 
It is not A black car, it is THE black car. There are no others now. Or so Bugatti might want you to think. I’ll take two, and call me in the morning.