This is the 1991 Bugatti EB110 design study known simply as chassis A6, finished in a color known as ‘Royal Metallic Blue’. The EB110 was produced by Bugatti Automobili S.p.A to celebrate founder, Ettore Bugatti’s 110th birthday. This new company was set up after Italian entrepreneur Romano Artioli acquired the Bugatti brand in 1987. The ultimate goal was to create an unprecedented supercar, with performance that would match, or outperform anything currently available at the time, and in order to achieve this, Artioli put together a team of some of the most talented people in the automotive industry at the time. This team included the famous Italian car designer, Marcello Gandini, architect and member of the Artioli family, Giampaolo Benedini, mechanical engineer, designer and technical director, Paolo Stanzani, and mechanical engineer, Nicola Materazzi, who later filled the role of Stanzani after he had left the company (among many others). Meanwhile, a team of talented engineers, many of which were ex-Lamborghini employees, worked together under a newly formed company knows as Technostile to help develop this new Bugatti supercar. Initially, the EB110 was being developed on an aluminum chassis, of which 7 total were delivered to Bugatti by Carbone Industries. After putting a number of designers to the test, it was ultimately Gandini who was selected to build his design (project 035) on 5 of the aluminum chassis (A1-A5). The 6th aluminum chassis was used for an assymetric Epowood concept (GT style), which featured a rear wheel cover only on one side, and a number of other developmental ideas. Eventually, Gandini and Stanzani had left the company, and Materazzi and Benedini later restyled the EB110 from 1991 to late 1992, with one of the main changes being a new carbon fiber chassis supplied by aircraft company, Aérospatiale (prototypes C6-C16 + one aluminum chassis A6). This prototype EB110 was photographed by @supercar_hd_real at the 2022 Techno Classica alongside two other non-functional EB110 mock-ups, A1 and A7.
How many made? 1 of 1
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Photo Credit: @supercar_hd_real
Research: @rarecarsonly