Bugatti EB110 GT Top Speed
The EB110 GT was the first new Bugatti in nearly fifty years. It launched in September 1991, on what would have been Ettore Bugatti's 110th birthday, which is where the name comes from. 342 km/h made it one of the fastest cars you could buy at the time.
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About the EB110 GT
Bugatti stopped making cars in 1952. For nearly forty years the name sat unused, until Romano Artioli bought it and decided to do something ambitious with it.
He built a purpose made factory at Campogalliano in Italy, hired serious engineering talent, and produced a car that was technically well ahead of what Ferrari and Lamborghini were selling. A quad-turbocharged V12 with sixty valves in only 3.5 litres, a carbon fibre chassis, and all-wheel drive. That last part mattered. 553 hp through the rear wheels alone in 1991 would have been close to unusable, and the four wheel drive made the EB110 far easier to drive quickly than its rivals.
It was expensive, and the timing was terrible. A recession hit the supercar market hard in the early 1990s and demand collapsed. Bugatti went bankrupt in 1995 with only 139 GTs built.
The abandoned factory became a minor legend among car enthusiasts, sitting frozen for decades with unfinished cars still inside. Today a good EB110 GT is worth several times its original price.
Specifications from manufacturer figures.