Bugatti Automobili

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Bugatti Automobili SpA

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legal form Società per Azioni
founding 1987
resolution 1998
Seat Campogalliano , Italy
management Romano Artioli
Branch Automotive industry

Bugatti Automobili was an Italian automobile manufacturer based in Campogalliano . It was founded in 1987 by Romano Artioli , who took over the naming rights and revitalized the legendary Bugatti brand founded by Ettore Bugatti (1909–1963). The company existed until 1998 when the Volkswagen group took over the design and naming rights. Since then, Bugatti has existed as Bugatti Automobiles SAS

Company history

View of the assembly halls (right) and the engine department (left side) of the Bugatti works in Campogalliano . The factory has been closed since 1998
Former assembly halls in Campogalliano from a close perspective, 2007

In 1987, Romano Artioli , an Italian entrepreneur, bought the legendary Bugatti name and founded Bugatti Automobili SpA . The new company had the architect Giampaolo Benedini plan and build a modern factory in Campogalliano , Italy, a town near Modena , home of traditional performance and sports car manufacturers such as Ferrari , De Tomaso , Lamborghini and Maserati .

In 1989, Paolo Stanzani , the designer of the Lamborghini Miura and Countach , presented plans for the revival of Bugatti. The first car to be completed was called the Bugatti EB110 GT, heralded as the most technically advanced supercar that has ever existed. In fact, the all-wheel drive EB 110 is one of the safest super sports cars ever built. The "110" in the name stood for the 110th birthday of the company's founder Ettore Bugatti in 1991, when the EB110 GT was to come onto the market.

On August 27, 1993 Romano Artioli bought through its holding company ACBN Holdings SA in Luxembourg , the company Lotus from General Motors . The purchase brought together two of the biggest names in automobile racing history. Plans arose to introduce the company's shares on international stock exchanges. In addition, the prototype of a four-door sports sedan named EB112 was presented in Geneva in 1993, which was specially developed for the US market. In 1994, based on the EB110 GT, the weight-reduced and more powerful variant EB110 Supersport appeared .

By the time the EB110 was due to hit the market, the European and North American economies were in recession and business failed in September 1995. At this point, developments for the EB112 were in full swing, but had to be canceled. The concept served as the basis for the first two Italdesign drafts for Volkswagen, the models EB118 and EB218 . The not yet completed chassis of the EB110 as well as all spare parts and tools, both for the construction and for the maintenance of the EB110, went to Germany in the hands of Jochen Dauer (known for racing among others with the Porsche 962C in Le Mans), who made the chassis continued to build finished cars and sold them as the permanent EB110 Supersport. Jochen Dauer stopped production. Toscana-Motors GmbH in Kaiserslautern acquired the stocks and large parts of the company's equipment, in particular all of the original spare parts still available for the Bugatti EB110 as well as the continuously developed EB110 SuperSport .

Models

Type construction time Number produced Engine type annotation image
EB 110 GT 1991-1995 about 95 Mid-engine V12 560 PS (411 kW) 3.5 l V12 engine with 4 turbochargers, V max 342 km / h, permanent all-wheel drive 2007-06-15 18 Bugatti EB 110 (edit - kl) .jpg
EB 110 Supersport 1994-1995 about 20 Mid-engine V12 611 PS (450 kW) 3.5 l V12 engine with 4 turbochargers, V max 355 km / h, permanent all-wheel drive 1995 Bugatti EB 110 SS (19450002510) .jpg
EB 112 1993 at least 2 Front mid-engine V12 Study, 455 PS (339 kW), 5.9 l V12 engine, V max 300 km / h, permanent all-wheel drive Bugatti EB112 sedan 4door.jpg

literature

  • Joachim Kurz: Bugatti. The Myth - The Family - The Company , Econ, 2005, ISBN 3-43015-809-5
  • Jürgen Lewandowski, Martin A. Voß, Eugen Eslage: Ettore Bugatti & Jean Bugatti - Art, Forme et Technique (in three languages), ISBN 3-00-011516-1 (no longer available)
  • Michael Ulrich: The Race, Bugatti missed , Monsenstein and Vannerdat , 2005, ISBN 3-86582-085-9
  • Peter Vann: Bugatti: Marque - Legend - Renaissance (German and English edition), Rindlisbacher & Co., La Punt Chamues, 1999, not commercially available

Web links

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