Thursday 25th January 2018
The Bugatti EB110 (sort of) returns!
Remember when the EB110 became the Edonis? Now the Edonis has become the SP-110...
Now this is reimagination taken to another level! In the past few years we've seen Jaguar, Aston Martin and Land Rover create new 'heritage' products, those in addition to the restorations and modernisation projects that were already going on. Now, thanks to Casil Motors in the US, we could be about to see the reincarnation of the reincarnation of a 90s supercar...
Everybody knows the Bugatti EB110, because it was the return of an iconic manufacturer and showed that Jaguar was being a big bunch of wimps: in Top Trumps a quad-turbo V12 always beats a twin-turbo V6. Obviously. Less people however know about the B Engineering Edonis, the work of some ex-Bugatti engineers who took an EB110, upped the power, removed the front driveshafts and, er, made it uglier.
That didn't really work out - B Engineering still exists, though only as a Bugatti specialist - and now an American company has purchased the rights to build the Edonis again. Its plan is to create "the ultimate analogue supercar", which is all rather trendy at the moment. Apparently it will be built on fully homologated and unused EB110 chassis back from when they were Bugattis, which must be jolly dusty by now. (B Engineering originally aimed to make 21 Edonises in the early 2000s; given Casil Engineering wants to make 15, that makes some sense).
The car will be the SP-110 Edonis Fenice and, according to the information that is currently available on Autocar, it will be offered with either the original Edonis body (designed by Nicola Materazzi) or a new 'Rinascita' look, which is arguably worse but said to provide more downforce. Using the Edonis version of that incredible V12, Casil Motors says the SP-110 Edonis Fenice will be capable of 0-100mph in eight seconds and 220mph.
Price? £600,000, with - of course - near limitless colour and personalisation options. Should you be interested, Casil Motors are taking $2,500 deposits now. Hopefully there's more to tell on this story in due course...
[Source: Autocar]
