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 Post subject: OXNARD - California
PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:13 am 
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Four unique Bugatti Prototype Show cars on display at the Mullin Automotive Museum
Bugatti’s Design Study Cars on Loan to French Culture Museum

OXNARD, Calif. (April 15, 2010) – Bugatti Automobiles is honored to announce the four prototype show cars that continued the brand on its path to create the most iconic super car in the world will be on display at the new Mullin Automotive Museum. Bugatti felt the Mullin Automotive Museum was the ideal place to display these rare cars because it is a benchmark museum that celebrates French culture and more importantly, the rich history of French automobiles. In the heart of Southern California, the museum is at the center of the most important market for Bugatti.

There are many prestigious marques featured in the Mullin Automotive Museum. However, Bugatti is the only brand still producing cars today, so it was a logical choice for Bugatti to loan the four historic prototypes for display in his museum. Bugatti also shares some of its rare vehicles with the Schlumpf Museum in France, just miles from the Bugatti headquarters in Molsheim so it is beneficial to have a counterpart ambassador for the Bugatti brand in the U.S.

Detailed information on each of the four Bugatti prototypes are as follows for the EB 118, EB 218, EB 18/3 Chiron and finally the EB 16/4 Veyron.

EB 118
The Volkswagen Group acquired the Bugatti brand in 1998 from Romano Artioli who headed the Bugatti Automobili SpA in Italy, founded in 1987, the company which was responsible for the Bugatti EB 110 Supersports car and which had to close its doors again in 1995.
To the great surprise of the Press, the first study of a new Bugatti under the Volkswagen group debuted at the Paris Motor Show in October 1998. The large two-door Coupé in French Blue, called the Bugatti EB 118, was the first show car ever with 18 cylinders. It was created in only five months and featured a W-18 cylinder engine with 6.3 liters of capacity - the first of its kind to be used in a passenger vehicle. This engine, which the Volkswagen group developed, had three rows of six-cylinder banks, which are joined in the shape of a 'W'. The turbocharged engine produced 550 horsepower.
Another technological feature of the car was permanent four-wheel drive. Giorgetto Giugiaro’s company Italdesign was responsible for the design of this first Bugatti concept show car under the Volkswagen group.
Though it never saw production, the EB 118 was the launch pad for the EB 218 that was presented at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1999.
In 2000, the Bugatti EB 118 was shown again on the Guigiaro show stand in Geneva repainted in dark red metallic.

EB 218
The model name, Bugatti EB 218, refers again to the 18-cylinder engine, which was also used in the EB 118 and was the second show car launched by Bugatti. The four-door saloon car debuted at 1999 at the Geneva Motor Show and was shown again with the Chiron at the 1999 Frankfurt Motor Show. The design was clearly based on EB 112 Saloon study, which was designed by Guigiaro for Bugatti Automobili SpA for the 1993 Geneva Motor Show.
The Bugatti EB 218 is a blend of technology and design. The car features center spine that runs from the radiator over the bonnet and continues over the roof of the saloon only interrupted by the rear window but continues at the lower edge of the window. Aluminum space-frame technology was used in the production of the body and the exterior aluminum cladding is finished in pearlescent 'Blu Notte Perlato'.
The Bugatti EB 218 gave the Bugatti name a new point of emphasis. The primary features of the Bugatti EB 218 followed on from the design and technical specifications of the EB 118 coupé study, which was also produced by Giorgetto Giugiaro of Italdesign and further developed to make this unmistakable four-door saloon.
The EB 218 transformed the dimensions and style of the classical Bugatti saloon automobile into a modern setting. It is the orientation towards the clean lines of the touring cars, traditional to the Bugatti marquee, make this Grand Tourer unique.

EB 18/3 Chiron
The Bugatti 18/3 Chiron, named after one of the most famous and successful Bugatti racing drivers of all time, Louis Chiron was the third Bugatti concept show car – a mid-engine super sports car designed and developed by Italdesign. The car launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1999 and again featured the same W-18 engine found in the EB 118 and EB 218 concept cars. This car produced 555 horsepower and accelerated from 0-60 mph in less than five seconds, with a top speed of 190 mph. The direct injection engine had a displacement of 6.3 liters and four valves per cylinder giving it 72 valves.
Subtle details of the Chiron included eight-spoke wheels, which were similar in design to the cast aluminum wheels first found on the Bugatti Type 35 in 1924. A fine center spine running over the car from stem to stern echoed the Bugatti Atlantic’s famous design feature.
The Chiron’s Monocoque was made of carbon fiber and the body panels aluminum with an exterior color of Blue Côte d’Azur.
The interior of the car was very minimalistic, covered in Blu Pacifico (blue) and Sabbia (brown) leather. The center console was finished in engine- turned aluminum accents and featured a removable watch on the passenger side.

EB 16/4 Veyron
The Bugatti tradition of successful sports cars is reflected in the name chosen for this design study, which commemorates the Bugatti works driver Pierre Veyron, who won the last important race for Bugatti in a Type 57C Tank; The Le Mans 24-hour race in 1939.
The so-called EB 18/4 Veyron (18 cylinders, 4th concept) was the first concept, not designed by Giugiaro. At the same time as the Chiron was in development at Italdesign, Volkswagen Design worked on an identical supercar concept to debut at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1999, only four weeks after the Chiron’s launch at Frankfurt.
The Bugatti Veyron had an impressive dynamic shape. The team of Hartmut Warkuss, the head of the "Center of Excellence Design" at Volkswagen had succeeded in finding a new interpretation of traditional Bugatti design cues and created a sports car with looks that emphasized its high performance potential at the very first glance.
The designers also incorporated the true character of a Bugatti with the Veyron concept. Of all the models that appeared in the new Bugatti era, the Veyron is surely the most audacious. The supercar’s lines can surely be described as sensational; from every angle, they emphasize the dynamic body styling. The two-tone paintwork is a stylistic link between the past and future of a marquee that is already rich in tradition. The short body overhangs and emphatic curves add to the impression of sheer power that the design study created. For these reasons, the Veyron design was finally chosen for further development and production at the new Atelier at the Bugatti headquarters in Molsheim Alsace, France. An evolution of the Veyron was displayed at the Paris Motor show in 2000 named the EB 16/4 Veyron, now with 16 cylinders and 8 liters displacement, un-turbocharged, producing 630 horsepower. Finally, at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2001 a revised new version of that engine with four turbochargers debuted as the Veyron 16.4 with a 1,001 horsepower.
The Veyron EB 16/4 is the last in the line of the four concept cars of Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. This very car was the first Veyron and was the basis for the now iconic Supersports car that has been on the market since 2006.

Bugatti Automobiles SAS Press Release

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 Post subject: Re: OXNARD - California
PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:46 am 
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Why would anybody be interested in these ugly, still born VW's?
Got excited for a moment thinking that they might have been prototypes from the old times.


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