Bugatti EB 110

Bugatti have been around for quite some time but the greater percentage of their time was spent in professional races will small effort put into road cars. The knock on effect of this is that when they make a road car, it has some VERY impressive specs about it. The only available engine size for the EB110 is a whopping 3.5 litre V12 with, wait for it, 4 turbos!!! Yes I said 4 turbos, which as far as I can see should mean almost no turbo lag. Apparently not so. Jeremy Clarkson was reputed to have said that for a car that came from the Bugatti legacy it was a "startling let down" compared with what was expected. Hiding behind a ludicrous 18mpg the engine ...

Parked neatly on the Bugatti stand at the 1995 Geneva Show were three examples of the EB110, each proclaiming a world record. The first was that the EB110 Supersport laid claim to being the fastest production car with a maximum speed of 218 mph. The second record was for the fastest car using methane gas as a fuel- 214.2mph. And the third was the fastest speed ever recorded on ice- 184.1mph achieved on a stretch of frozen sea somewhere in the Arctic circle. The creator of Bugatti, Ettore Bugatti was born in 1881; the new Bugatti was launched 110 years later, an engineering jewel with a shrink-wrapped skin. Those who have built ...