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EB110 SPEC MAX SPEED 218 mph (351 km/h) 611 bhp @ 8250 rpm Discs all round with ABS |
It was in 1989 that the
plans for the new Bugatti-revival were presented by Paolo Stanzani, of Lamborghini Miura
and Countach fame. The general lay-out of the car was already known, a prestigious 12
cylinder, 60 valve, 4 turbo, 4 wheel drive rear engined supercar, better than anything
known to man (in those days). The expectation was to get 550 HP out of this! Plans were tp
remain the total weight below 1300 kilograms, but this turneds out to be 1620. However,
how the car should look on the outside was not known yet! This was done by Marcelo Gandini
(and others) later on. Stanzani was sent away in 1990, because of some unclear manipulations with stock, which should have given him more than 50% of the possession of Bugatti. This "coup" didn't succeed however. In the end Romano Artioli took over as the "face" of Bugatti. Maybe an article about all the political games at Bugatti should be written once. The 15th of September 1991 the EB110GT was presented by
Romano Artioli in Paris in a big show to the public, exactly 110 years after Ettore
Bugatti had As we know the Bugatti plans were set-up too ambitious, even when Mauro Forghieri came in 1993, of Ferrari Formula 1 fame, it couldn't stop the end to the entire venture in 1995. Estimations are that some 150 cars have been built. |
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