The Bugatti EB110 was a true successor of the original pre-war Bugattis that had been created by Ettore Bugatti and his son Jean. It combined beauty with supercar performance made all the better by its advanced all-wheel-drive system and blistering performance.

Fast Facts – The Bugatti EB110 GT

• The Bugatti EB110 was the result of the work of Romano Artioli who attempted to restart the Bugatti marque on the advice of Ferruccio Lamborghini and Paulo Stanzani.
• The Bugatti EB110 made its public debut on the 110th anniversary of Ettore Bugatti’s birth: hence the name EB110.
• The E110 was designed with full time four-wheel-drive and a 60 valve (5 valves per cylinder) V12 engine.
• The car started out with an aluminium honeycomb chassis but problems with this weakening led to the change to carbon fibre.
• The EB110 was made in two versions; the EB110 GT, and the extra high-performance EB110 Supersport.
• The Bugatti company had also planned to make a luxurious passenger car in both two door and four door variants called the EB112, but went bankrupt before they could do so.

The Bugatti Marque Reborn

The beautiful cars of Ettore Bugatti were a casualty of the Second World War, as France sought to re-build what had been destroyed some companies were able to recover, and some were not. Ettore Bugatti, the founder of Bugatti, had lost his son Jean in a car accident on August 11th, 1939, just as the war was beginning, and so he did not have his son to work alongside him, nor did he…