Bugatti's Rolls Royce rival - complete with V12 and manual gearbox - never made it. What might have been, eh?
Hopefully, one day there will be a documentary on the pre-VW days of Bugatti. Because here was a company, under the guidance of Romano Artioli, that brought to market a supercar with a quad-turbo V12 and a manual gearbox. Even in the 1990s, it was crackers. And also brilliant - Michael Schumacher famously bought an EB110 SS. Even before the Bugatti name was attached to the fastest car in the world - and many decades after the original icons - was a truly fascinating period in its history.
The EB112 is arguably an even more ideal representation of those bizarre years. Back when the executive saloon was the car of choice for the world’s wealthiest, Giorgetto Giugiaro was commissioned to preview how a four-door Bugatti might look. It followed soon after the incredible EB110 and would be powered, of course, by a V12. Not the EB110’s 3.5-litre, however, but a new 6.0-litre unit mounted behind the front wheels for better weight distribution.
It remains a low-slung, distinctive-looking thing. There's more than a hint of the modern-day EV fastback about it. There are familiar Bugatti cues on a very unfamiliar silhouette, too, including the horseshoe grille, EB110-style wheels and the rib that runs from the bonnet all the way through the car, splitting the rear window in two.
Instead, these latest pictures offer us a chance to wish many happy returns to Mr Giugiaro - thank you again for the De Tomaso Mangusta, maestro - and remember the Bugatti that time largely forgot. Out of just three produced, only one was fully homologated. Its makers are certainly still proud: “The Bugatti EB112 was a true pioneer, an avant-gardist to how the saloon segment of the automotive world would radically change following its unveiling.
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