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Bugatti Centodieci Debuts as Incredible Modern Take on EB110

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If you thought all modern Bugattis were cool, including the EB110, we've got a juicy one for you. It's a tribute piece called the Centodieci, which is Italian for 110, and it could only come from the company that makes the fastest sculptures in the world.
Bugatti keeps cranking out these cars and every time we say "surely, they can't outdo themselves after this one." After the anything-but-normal Chiron, we got the Chiron Sport, the Divo, and La Voiture Noire.

How would you describe the look of this thing? Because it's not easy. It's reminiscent of cyberpunk renderings in that it kind of looks like it's from the 1980s and 2080s at the same time. But we assure you it's a very functional speed demon.

Powered by the familiar 8-liter W18 engine, it makes 1,600 PS, which is 100 PS more than your average Chiron. Bugatti says this is enough to go from 0 to 100 km/0 in 2.4 seconds, hit 200 km/h in 6.1 seconds and 300 km/h 7 seconds later. Top speed has had to be limited to limited 236 mph (380 km/h). You could theoretically cross the widest part of Central Park in a minute or the greater Tokyo area in 13 minutes.

At the front, the EB110's headlights have been boiled down to narrow slits of light, while the main horseshoe grille looks like it's puckered up because it's much smaller. The black aero contrasts against the white paint. The profile does without the C curve around the door and features a flatter roof. And instead of the Chiron's scoops, we have four circular intakes on either side, a tribute to the EB110 SS.

The rear somehow manages to be the most breathtaking view, as it's where we see a completely new exhaust configuration that's become a part of the oversized diffuser. Only Bugatti could put taillights like those into production.

"Transporting this classic look into the new millennium without copying it was technically complex, to say the least. We had to create a new way of combining the complex aerothermal requirements of the underlying Chiron technology with a completely different aesthetic appearance," says design director Achim Anscheidt.
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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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