RE: You Know You Want To: Bugatti EB110 SS

[100 IAN]

Vetteran said:

Some years ago a London dealer in secondhand exotica was selling a car for me. Amongst the cars they had for sale at the time was an EB110 SS. The dealer eventually sold my car and shortly after that the showroom closed. When I asked another London car dealer why they had closed he told me that the EB110 SS was in fact a standard car that had been brought up to SS spec and was not a true original. Unfortunately for the dealer the indivdual who bought the Bugatti was a gangster/mafia who probably would not accept it was an innocent mistake! So they shut down fast and left the country.

Was that the showroom just infront of Joe Macari's service centre?

I saw an EB110 there and after they'd closed i was told that they'd gone under as a result of selling the EB110 with some sort of dubious history and being taken to the cleaners by the disgruntled buyer.

[edar]

The Supersport in the 'You Know You Want To' feature is actually tuned by Brabus which makes a little more special. Its former owner and history file is extremely interesting, but unfortunately I can't divulge. Never the less, I was fortunate enough to spend a full day detailing it. It has to be one of my most memorable days to spend time with one of my top three ultimate cars to own. If was wealthy enough, that is

Here are a couple of more pics...

Edited by edar on Wednesday 19th December 21:16

Edited by edar on Wednesday 19th December 22:07

[100 IAN]

What's the spares availability like for an EB110?

If i'm not mistaken the EB110 was designed and built pre-VW buying the Bugatti name so they may not feel obliged to offer spares for it?

How unique are consumables like brake pads, clutches etc

What's the situation if you get a cracked windscreen or broken headlamp, or any other essential component that's unique to that particular car?

Owning and driving a rare car is hugely satisfying but it must be similarly worrying if something as innocuous as a stone cracking the windscreen could render it 'inoperable'.

[F1GTRUeno]

For spares, you basically need to go to Italy.

B. Engineering (who made the aforementioned Edonis) is (or was?) made up of former Bugatti employees so they know the cars like the back of their hand.

They have a stock of parts and I'd imagine the tooling to make more because they service them regularly. Would definitely cost a fortune for newly made parts but if you can afford an EB110 in the first place then it wouldn't make much difference. There's supposed to be a garage in Germany that can service them too.

I absolutely adore these, would definitely be in my lottery win garage in both forms. Love the Edonis too but AFAIK they only made two of them so they're a little harder to come by.

In fact, I'd love a garage full of obscure late 80's/early 90's supercars to just get them driven and let people see them.

The pair of BMW Nazca, Cizeta V16t, Isdera 112i, Lotec C1000, Jiotto Caspita, etc.

[BoxerF50]

100 IAN said:

If i'm not mistaken the EB110 was designed and built pre-VW buying the Bugatti name so they may not feel obliged to offer spares for it?

They (VW/Bugatti) really don't what to have anything to do with EB110.

[deltashad]

F1GTRUeno said:

In fact, I'd love a garage full of obscure late 80's/early 90's supercars to just get them driven and let people see them.

The pair of BMW Nazca, Cizeta V16t, Isdera 112i, Lotec C1000, Jiotto Caspita, etc.

Would have to be the 108i imperator... and the Nazcar, tasty

[jimmyjimjim]

Crook said:

rhinochopig said:

gforceg said:

rhinochopig said:

Boom-Squeal-Boom-Squeal-Yip-Yip-Yip

I know what you mean. I can't remember which of his books it's in but such a good piece.

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=T7h3g--hKhAC&am...

Thank you for that.

The first result for the google.COM result for that search allows you to read the entire article.

[dudleybloke]

always fancied the dauer version.

http://www.supercars.net/cars/4128.html

power - 645 kw / 864.9 bhp @ 8250 rpm

pretty pokey.

they do a mean roadgoing 962 as well.

[gaz132]

Love the EB110, but this was at the bottom of the advert under 'worth considering'
http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...
Is that road legal? I love it!

[Dreamspeed]

Bobley said:

Dreamspeed said:

If you think it's ugly, take a look at the Edonis which is based on the Bugatti EB110. I quite like the EB110, just needs work around the headlights.

You really didn't need to spoil the party by dragging that ugly relative out of the cupboard.

EB110SS is the Countach pin up of my teenage years.

Sorry Bobley, but I'm with you on the EB110 looks, same as the Countach. The EB might have a few bad angles, but over all it's got presence. Super cars like these are never beautiful, they're more aggressive and purposeful. An E-type is beautiful but doesn't have the aggression that the EB or Countach has.

Each to their own I guess?

[PascalBuyens]

storminnorman said:

I like it, always have - but not in that colour. Makes it look cheap. It looks best in bugatti blue (don't know what they call it, french racing blue isn't it)

also those wheels are much cooler!

That looks exactly like the one I had the pleasure of drivinga few years ago...

Always wanted one ever since, but then I'd need a bigger wallet too

[PascalBuyens]

edar said:

Here are a couple of more pics...

Is that Mosler owned by the same person?

[peteO]

PascalBuyens said:

That looks exactly like the one I had the pleasure of drivinga few years ago...

Always wanted one ever since, but then I'd need a bigger wallet too

i had a model of that as a nipper!.. always loved em!..

[anything fast]

what about one of these, if we are looking at obscure supercars?

[fatboy69]

I prefer these to the Veyron. Does make me odd in some way? Just prefer the looks of the 110 to the Veyron.

[J4CKO]

This thread is reminding me of the Supercars games on the Amiga, was theonly game at that point that you could convincingly slide a car, top down racer where you could get upgrades, that Cizeta was in it but with a different name.

[clonmult]

anything fast said:

what about one of these, if we are looking at obscure supercars?

The previously mentioned Cizeta V16T. Awesome.

And whats more, if you have the money, you can still buy them. Although they are (unsurprisingly) built to order. Truly epic design, but it was deemed to be too brutal to be used by Lamborghini.

They do a Spyder as well ...



Reading the faq on their site, these cars are rare. 11 in total.

[Vetteran]

100 IAN said:

Vetteran said:

Some years ago a London dealer in secondhand exotica was selling a car for me. Amongst the cars they had for sale at the time was an EB110 SS. The dealer eventually sold my car and shortly after that the showroom closed. When I asked another London car dealer why they had closed he told me that the EB110 SS was in fact a standard car that had been brought up to SS spec and was not a true original. Unfortunately for the dealer the indivdual who bought the Bugatti was a gangster/mafia who probably would not accept it was an innocent mistake! So they shut down fast and left the country.

Was that the showroom just infront of Joe Macari's service centre?

I saw an EB110 there and after they'd closed i was told that they'd gone under as a result of selling the EB110 with some sort of dubious history and being taken to the cleaners by the disgruntled buyer.

Sounds too similar not to be the same dealer. Began with a P!

[idbridge]

same seller has a XJ220 with delivery mileage

http://www.oakfields.com/html/showroom01Detail.asp...

a Mosler

http://www.oakfields.com/html/showroom01Detail.asp...

and this, which I love

http://www.oakfields.com/html/showroom01Detail.asp...

Still prefer the Eb110 to the Mosler and Jag

[BoxerF50]

idbridge said:

same seller has a XJ220 with delivery mileage

http://www.oakfields.com/html/showroom01Detail.asp...

a Mosler

http://www.oakfields.com/html/showroom01Detail.asp...

and this, which I love

http://www.oakfields.com/html/showroom01Detail.asp...

Still prefer the Eb110 to the Mosler and Jag

As a car to drive or track, I would take the Mosler over the other two.