{"id":80553,"date":"2021-09-22T16:49:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=80553"},"modified":"2021-10-06T07:44:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T07:44:11","slug":"30-years-of-bugatti-eb110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/30-years-of-bugatti-eb110\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of Bugatti EB110"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, Ettore Bugatti, company founder and longtime head of the sports car brand, would have turned 140. On his 110th birthday, Italian entrepreneur Romano Artioli revived the famous manufacturer, which had gone into a long hiatus in the early 1960s. Artioli had already acquired the brand rights in the mid-1980s and announced his plans to build a new supercar shortly afterwards. A completely new automotive plant, the Fabbrica Blu, was built in Campogalliano near Modena. While the various premises were being built, the planned supercar was already undergoing road tests, which took it to the Arctic Circle and the N\u00fcrburgring Nordschleife, among other places. Just in time for September 15, 1991, Artioli invited 2,000 guests from the worlds of politics, film, sports and current affairs to Paris. After he had personally presented the brand-new EB110 there, a production-ready example drove along the Champs \u00c9lys\u00e9es boulevard together with an early prototype in a media-savvy manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technological innovations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In this way, Artioli and his team bowed to the innovative and beautiful designs of Ettore Bugatti. The new supercar easily joined the ranks of its ancestors. For the first time in the brand’s history, a V12 engine with five valves per combustion chamber worked behind the passengers. This received four turbochargers and developed 560 hp from 3.5 liters of displacement. A six-speed manual transmission provided the power transfer to the permanent four-wheel drive with visco-look. Bugatti also used a carbon monocoque for the first time to keep weight down and increase torsional rigidity. 18-inch magnesium wheels were used in the wheel arches ex works, behind which a Brembo braking system was concealed. The list of technical innovations may no longer seem exciting from today’s perspective. However, just consider which of these developments were taken for granted in production vehicles 30 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n

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