Fabricated from scratch with state of the art componentry, the EB110 GT was launched on September 15th 1991, but Artioli and Bugatti had missed the supercar boom and pitched their stunning new car into a particularly severe recession. With its distinctive Gandini styling and near £300,000 list price, there just weren't enough buyers for the GT and fewer still for the subsequent £400,000 SS hot rod. So despite exceptional performance, build quality and dynamics, the EB110 was a commercial disaster, the Campogalliano factory producing just 126 customer cars before closing down in summer 1995. Incorporating bespoke parts throughout, the GT was based around a hugely advanced and wickedly expensive carbon-fibre tub fabricated by Aerospatiale. The EB110 and McLaren F1 were the only road cars available with composite monocoques during the early nineties, such outlandish features playing an integral part in the huge list prices of each. Bugatti's first five prototypes were completed with chassis’s fabricated from lightweight aluminium before they made the switch to carbon composite, eight further prototypes being completed in this state-of-the-art material. Suspension was via independent double wishbones and with a wheelbase of 2550mm, full time four-wheel drive, power-assisted steering and switchable ABS, the GT was eminently predictable in almost any situation. Unique BBS 18-inch magnesium alloy wheels (9 and 12.5-inches wide front/rear) worked in conjunction with power-assisted cross-drilled and ventilated 322mm brake discs and four-pot Brembo calipers.
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