Bugatti EB110 Super Sport
In 1991, Romano Artioli created the first super sports car of modern times with the EB110. EB are the initials of Ettore Bugatti, while 110 stands for his 110th birthday.
The EB110 was revealed at a presentation in Paris on 15 September 1991, Ettore Bugatti’s 110th birthday. The car is powered by a 3.5-litre V12 engine with four turbochargers and a maximum engine speed of 8,250 rpm.
The EB110 goes from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour (km/h) in 3.26 seconds, making it the fastest series-production car of its time. The vehicle has a top speed of 351 km/h.
“Bugatti set four world records with the EB110, among other things for the fastest acceleration, fastest series-production sports car, fastest natural gas-powered sports car and fastest series-production car on ice.”
By 1992, the EB110 Super Sport cost 550 million lira ( around Php 4.1 billion) including maintenance and wear parts for the first three years.
Prices have increased drastically since then. Last year, at an auction held by the auction house Sotheby’s, a bidder paid approximately 2.03 million euros (Php 113.5 million) for a 1994 EB110 Super Sport.
“With the market launch of the Veyron 16.4 in 2005, Bugatti presented a true pioneering achievement and made automotive history. The Veyron ushered in the new century and catapulted itself into a new dimension. Once again, the French manufacturer opted for a carbon monocoque, all-wheel drive and four turbochargers.”
The first ever true hyper sports car in the world delivers around 986 hp and reaches breakneck speeds of over at 407 km/h.
The completely, newly developed 8.0-liter W16 engine initially has an output of 986 hp and 1,500 Nm of torque. This allows the car to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in just 2.5 seconds.
In 2010, Bugatti updated the Veyron with the new Super Sport. The powerful drive now produces an astonishing 1183 hp, and has a top speed of 415 km/h.
In the same year, Veyron 16.4 Super Sport set a new speed record for road vehicles: with a top speed of 431.072 km/h, it becomes the fastest series-production super sports car in the world.
“Unusually for such an incomparably fast vehicle, its perfection is reflected in its easy handling and everyday usability alongside its unbelievable power. The Veyron is a work of art on wheels, its materials are of the highest quality and the quality of workmanship is still one of a kind to this day. Only 450 Veyron 16.4. vehicles, including 48 as the Super Sport, were built by hand at the headquarters in Molsheim in the period up to 2015. Today, they are sought-after collector’s items. Since its market launch, the prices for a Veyron have increased by 30-35 percent on average – and continue to rise.”
The newest addition to the group is the Chiron. The Bugatti Chiron replaced the Veyron in 2016. With a maximum power of 1,479 hp, a value that has never before been achieved by any series-production vehicle, and a maximum torque of 1,600 Nm, the Chiron set new standards in automotive engineering in the 2010s.
The Chiron goes from a standstill to 100 km/h in just 2.4 seconds, and has a maximum speed of 420 km/h.
“In 2019, Bugatti was the first car manufacturer ever to exceed the 300 miles per hour mark with the Chiron. At the same time, the French luxury manufacturer set a new speed record of 304.773 mph (490.484 km/h). Never before has a vehicle by a series-production manufacturer reached such high speeds. Of the planned 500 vehicles, over 250 have already been built and delivered—at a unit price of at least 2.65 million euros (before tax).”
