$eight.9M Bugatti Centodieci is Chiron’s tribute to EB110 and you may’t have one
After a roughly 40-year hiatus, the Bugatti EB110 put the French model again among the many automotive elite when it was launched in 1990. That automotive is now virtually 30 years outdated, and Bugatti on Friday celebrated its contribution to the model with a brand new special-edition model of the Chiron known as the Centodieci.
The phrase Centodieci means 110 in Italian, so the title is an apparent tie-in to the EB110, which in itself was a tie-in to the historical past of the model. The EB110 was introduced to the general public on firm founder Ettore Bugatti’s (EB) 110th birthday (110). This automotive was revealed at The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering throughout Monterey Automotive Week.
Somewhat than construct a automotive that merely aped the EB110, Bugatti began with the Chiron and tailored its shapes and varieties to recall the EB110.
“The problem was to not enable oneself to be captivated an excessive amount of by the design of the historic car and work solely looking back, however as a substitute to create a contemporary interpretation of the form and expertise of that point,” says Achim Anscheidt, Head Designer at Bugatti.
The Centodieci retains the Chiron’s profile as a substitute of utilizing the EB110’s notable wedge form. Its surfaces, nonetheless, incorporate parts from the EB110 whereas listening to the underlying automotive’s cooling necessities.
The entrance finish suggests the EB110’s wedge form with a extra angular look than is obtainable on the Chiron. The horseshoe radiator opening is smaller, the entrance fascia and air intakes are redesigned, and the entrance splitter is prolonged. Air flows by way of the entrance of the hood and exits on the black part behind the hood. Additionally up entrance are skinny, LED headlights that come near echoing the highest line of the EB110’s bigger, rhombus-shaped headlights.
Alongside the edges, the Chiron’s C-shaped component—the signature of the automotive—offers method to a extra slab-sided appear to be the automotive’s predecessor. Behind the doorways, 5 spherical air vents organized in a diamond form feed air to the W-16 engine.
On the rear, the look could be very totally different from the 1990s supercar. Eight lighting parts line up throughout the highest, although the outboard lights do recall the pill-shaped tailights of the EB110. The rear wing is completely hooked up and overhangs the rear of the automotive like on the EB110 SS. A big air outlet covers the width of the automotive (once more, to serve that W-16), the engine might be seen by way of a transparent cowl, and an enormous rear diffuser works its aero magic.
Bugatti painted the Centodieci in a superb shade of white to supply a distinction to the La Voiture Noire proven in March. Bugatti President Stephan Winkelmann known as that duo “two utterly opposing but associated forces, like yin and yang.”
Not all of the adjustments are beauty. The eight.Zero-liter W-16 engine makes 1,577 hp at 7,000 rpm, 97 greater than the Chiron. Its efficiency is enhanced by an extra air inlet close to the oil cooler.
And what efficiency! The Centodieci leaps from Zero-62 mph in 2.four seconds, Zero-124 mph in 6.1 seconds, and Zero-186 mph in 13.1 seconds. Bugatti electronically limits the highest velocity to 236 mph.
Efficiency can also be improved by way of diminished weight. The automotive saves 44 kilos by way of using light-weight windshield wipers and stabilizers fabricated from carbon fiber.
“The Centodieci affords our clients an improved power-to-weight ratio and much more dynamic dealing with,” stated Winkelmann.
The Bugatti Centodieci is restricted to only 10 items, every of which can be delivered in two years. Consumers could have their selection of colours. Need one? Too dangerous. They’re all bought out and the price of entry is reasonably excessive at $eight.9 million plus VAT.
