Bugatti EB110 GT
A carbon monocoque, quad-turbo V12 and permanent all-wheel drive made the EB110 GT a technology map for later hypercars. It premiered on Ettore Bugatti's 110th birthday and was built not in France, but in a purpose-made factory near Modena.
1991 Italy Bugatti EB110 GT · Louis Rix · CC BY 2.0
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More than a set of wheels.
Italian entrepreneur Romano Artioli acquired the Bugatti trademark in 1987 and assembled engineers, suppliers and craftspeople around a new factory at Campogalliano. The EB110 premiered in Paris on 15 September 1991, exactly 110 years after Ettore Bugatti's birth. Its carbon monocoque, developed with Aerospatiale, carried a newly designed high-revving V12, four small turbochargers and permanent all-wheel drive. The GT combined this machinery with leather, air conditioning and electric seats; the later SS traded some comfort for more power and less weight. A collapsing supercar market and the company's wider debts ended Campogalliano production in 1995.
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Its V12 used four turbochargers, five valves per cylinder and sixty valves altogether.
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Four small turbos instead of one giant shove
A turbo makes power from exhaust energy, but a very large turbo can take time to speed up. Bugatti divided the job among four smaller units—one of the design choices that helped a highly boosted V12 respond across a wider rev range. Intercoolers then cooled the compressed air so it stayed dense and knock-resistant.
Source: 30 Years of the Bugatti EB 110 ↗Why the carbon tub changed the whole car
The 125 kg monocoque was not simply a light body panel. It was the central safety and stiffness structure to which suspension and powertrain systems attached. High stiffness lets engineers tune suspension movement more precisely; low structural mass leaves more of the weight budget for four-wheel drive, luxury equipment and crash protection.
Source: 30 Years of the Bugatti EB 110 ↗Where these facts come from
- 30 Years of the Bugatti EB 110
- Loris Bicocchi—Bugatti's high-speed expert
- Bugatti EB110 vs. Chiron
- Bugatti Speedline
Selected facts checked for this edition. Some source pages link to broader model families. Last reviewed October 2, 2026.