I was in Berlin earlier this year and the view from my hotel bedroom window was pretty great: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Heres some more, closer up. It was a truly stunning car to take in. Massive, very powerful looking (should hope so for 1000bhp!). Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
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Marc, thanks for sharing with us. This are wonderful pics from a wonderful & ultra rare car. Why are there french plates on the car? Already sold to a french collector? I haven`t seen yet one on the road.
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Not sure wolfie, there was no one really there to talk to so I couldn't ask. Shame - I was going to see if I could get a test drive..do you think they would have let me?!?!?
It's a factory car and one of the prototypes.... hence the EB 16 4 license!!! The car is just fitted with new wheels, but has not got the latest updates in the design!!! EDIT: Note the lack of the rear-spoiler/wing and the lack of the new air duct just behind the front wheel arches.....further the car has the first"old style" radiator and miss the new horizontal chrome lines in the front!!!
I feel cheated. Still want one though! I thought that the latest was that they had overcome the issue about actually getting an engine to produce 1000bhp, but can't find any tyres that don't melt or a runway big enough to get up to the 252mph claimed top speed. oops.
Yes....the car is built in Molshem just across the German border at the sight of Ettore Bugatti's old Chateau Saint Jean which has been bought and restored by Volkswagen to use as their new headquarter!!! They have also built a new test-track at the sight, and an assembly-building called the "Atelier"
Carsten, thanks for this infos buddy - once again YOU are the Bugatti expert But may I ask you: Whats that for a huuuuuuge BUGATTI building close to Modena. I always can see it from the highway driving my way to Maranello???????
That was the first try of Romano Artioli (right spelled ?). He built the Bugatti EB 110 in that building.
I think it's real....the car has been driven, so it actually works, but I think it's far from the final production car!!! @Marc, Fault is that Bugatti promised that they would build a car that was capable of doing 406KM/h and now people seems to think that this means that they can drive the every Veyron car at these speeds every day....that was not promised by the factory.....The problems with the tyres has never been an issue IMO....Michelin has been in the project from the beginning!!! Heating has been the major difficulty....understandable for this kind of monster engine I think......16 cylinders...four turbo chargers.... 1001 HP...etc. Latest news here:http://www.bugattipage.com/#News
Like Taunus already replied, that is the "old" factory placed in Campogalliano near Modena, and initially build by the former German Ferrari importer and Italian Suzuki importer Romano Artioli (Right Spelling Taunus ) for his early nineties adventure for building and producing the infamous EB110 and the SS! At the height of his adventure he bought also the Lotus factory in the UK and he is the brain behind the Lotus Elise......in fact he is generally known to be the last of the great car nuts...like Colin chapman and Enzo Ferrari!!!
