An extraordinary 1993 Bugatti EB110 Tremendous Game prototype is up on the market at Florida dealership Fortress Lauderdale Assortment South.
The auto in query is chassis quantity 006 and engine quantity 0026. The list claims engine 0026 is the person who broke the velocity listing of 212.94 mph in 1992. It is unclear if the engine was once in chassis 006 on the time. The auto has simply 2,108 miles at the odometer, and it is painted Grigio Steel with a blue inside.
Sooner than the Volkswagen Staff purchased the emblem and introduced the Veyron and Chiron, Italian businessman Romano Artioli revived Bugatti in 1991 with the the EB110 GT hypercar. Bugatti were dormant since 1952, however the brand new EB110 arrived to coincide with what would had been Ettore Bugatti’s a hundred and tenth birthday. It sported a quad-turbocharged 3.5-liter V-12 and carbon-fiber bodywork.
1993 Bugatti EB110 Tremendous Game prototype (photograph by means of Ford Lauderdale Assortment South)
The EB110 Tremendous Game upped the ante, expanding output from the EB110 GT’s 552 hp to 592 hp. Of the 134 EB110s constructed (together with prototypes and two race vehicles), simply 39 had been Tremendous Sports activities. All variations had a 6-speed guide transmission and all-wheel pressure. A yr after the 1992 pace listing, an EB110 Tremendous Game set a brand new pace listing of 218 mph. The Tremendous Game may just additionally boost up from 0-60 mph in simply 3.2 seconds, a world-beating efficiency on the time.
Artioli commissioned a lavishly designed manufacturing unit in Campogalliano, Italy, to construct the EB110. The auto attracted numerous consideration first of all, together with from Components 1 driving force Michael Schumacher, who owned a yellow Tremendous Game.
1993 Bugatti EB110 Tremendous Game prototype (photograph by means of Ford Lauderdale Assortment South)
Then again, monetary problems, together with money owed incurred via Artioli after an funding in Lotus, despatched Bugatti into chapter 11 in 1995. Some further vehicles had been later constructed via Germany’s Dauer the use of spare chassis, and extra leftover chasses had been earmarked for the SP-110 Edonis Fenice introduced in 2018.
Whilst it was once a industrial failure, the EB110 was once an excellent automotive and the most important piece of Bugatti historical past. Just lately, Bugatti introduced the Centodieci as a tribute to the EB110, with an inside that can pay tribute to the EB110 Tremendous Game particularly. Manufacturing is restricted to only 10 vehicles priced at $8.9 million each and every. The primary Centodieci was once finished previous this yr.