This £9m Bugatti Centodieci was built to look like a Le Mans racer
One of only 10 Centodiecis configured to look like ’94 endurance racer by US owner
Bugatti has revealed that a US
Centodieci owner has configured their £9m, one-of-ten hypercar to look exactly like the Bugatti EB110 LM that entered the 1994 Le Mans 24hr race.
Entered, but never finished. For while that ’94 entry ran as high as sixth overall, a tyre failure less than an hour before the end caused Jean-Christophe Bouillon to crash out. No matter, not least because the
EB110 LM was a special bit of kit, as is – as though you needed reminding – the Bugatti Centodieci.
The latter was built as a homage to the former, to recognise the underrated excellence of that car and as a testament to the achievement of Bugatti’s former owner Romano Artioli. (Artioli had collected a roster of the supercar industry’s superstars back then to help build the Bugatti journey: Miura designer Marcello Gandini, Lamborghini engineer Paolo Stanzani, and the father of the Ferrari F40 Nicola Materazzi, to name but three.)
“Great cars have great stories to tell,” Bugatti said upon the car’s reveal. “But it is all the more remarkable when a car has such a fascinating story that the owner of the modern day version references and pays homage to its great story its predecessor by configuring it in the absolute same style.”
One of only 10 Centodiecis configured to look like ’94 endurance racer by US owner
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