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Originally Posted by everso Originally Posted by stradale Everso, you keep referring to some kind of Bugatti trackrecord, but I don't think that actually exists. Ettore Bugatti's Bugatti is history for a long time now. Roman Artioli's Bugatti is dead for a while as well, during which period they only produced the EB110 in two variants and a number of concepts that never reached the production stage. I agree that the EB110 wasn't a bad car, but it wasn't fully developed and, difficult economic circumstances or not, it wasn't a success. The car itself wasn't a flop, but the project as a whole was, just like the XJ220. For the Veyron project however, even Artioli's Bugatti is not part of any trackrecord. This car is being designed, tested, built and, if all goes well, sold by an entirely new VAG team. Even the factory is new. Virtually nothing of what remained of Artioli's project ended up at VAG, except the brand name. I agree with you that VAG will not let this car be released with dodgy handling and poor reliability. It'll definitely be brutally fast too. But whether it will provide a driving experience that can match its rivals on an emotional level remains to be seen. I'm very curious about the end result. well yeah, i do agree with you 100% that the Bugatti Auto group is pretty much a mere extension of the VAG group. the original "Bugatti" is long gone....however the sole purpose of VAG to even revive/keep alive the Bugatti company was to try and return it to its performance and image roots. VAG wanted the Bugatti name to return to the status it had back in the day...i think their goals are running along the same ambitions. only 149 EB110s were ever produced....so i really don't think there was room for the car to flop....and like you said, the car itself was actually a solid performer...it wasn't the greatest supercar in the world, but it was worthy of supercar status i think. BTW, i recieved my 1:43 model today! I'm guessing it has *at least* 10hp! LOL

How come there was 21 left over unused EB110 chassis's left over after production had finished then? and also, how come Bugatti went out of business in 1995?