Bugatti EB112 on It’s 30th Anniversary
London, 09 August, 2023, (Oilandgaspress) On the day of Giorgetto Giugiaro’s 85th birthday, Bugatti celebrates one of the legendary designer’s most eminent and revered works of art, the Bugatti EB112, which at its reveal in 1993 was seen as one of the most radical and sophisticated saloon cars in the world.
Giugiaro’s design was long heralded as a landmark achievement, with many critics lauding it as the world’s most beautiful saloon car ever created and a thoroughbred Bugatti that blended performance and luxury seamlessly.
The flowing aesthetic of the EB112 has proved to be a visionary touch. As a true precursor to today’s ‘form follows performance’ Bugatti philosophy, the EB112 combined such a daring and elegant aesthetic form to great technical effect, resulting in the development of a high-performance Berline car with outstanding aerodynamic capabilities. In many ways, the EB112 is now considered as a spiritual predecessor to both Veyron and Chiron.
In this respect, at the front, the EB112 elegantly exudes an aesthetic treatment that today is synonymous with Bugatti’s famed design DNA. Its grille, for example, laid the foundations for the grille arrangement that graced the Veyron 10 years later while the longitudinal rib from the bonnet, over the roof and dissecting the rear window, is a stylistic nod to the Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic, that was later recreated subtly on first the Veyron and then the Chiron.
Beautiful and timeless but also revolutionary, the EB112’s all-aluminum body covered a carbon fiber monocoque derived from the similarly advanced EB110 super sports car. This body and chassis technology was still groundbreaking in the sports car segment in 1993 and was an entirely new development among saloon cars at the time.
The world premiere at Geneva was the highlight of the event. Painstakingly developed in the months preceding the international Swiss show, the EB112 was driven to its stand under its own power. The powertrain as well was groundbreaking, with the 60-valve (five per cylinder) 6.0-liter (5994cc) V12 engin mated to a six-speed manual transmission and a sophisticated four-wheel drive system.
The naturally aspirated V12 produced 460 HP at 6,300 rpm, its peak torque output of 590 Nm available from just 3,000 rpm, allowing potential performance far greater than any of the contemporary high-performance saloon cars. A top speed of 300 km/h (186 mph) was possible, with the EB112 able to reach 100 km/h (62 mph) from standstill in just 4.3 seconds.
The four-wheel drive system on the EB112 offered an evolution of the proven, advanced technology from the EB110. With the EB112 the torque split would be 38% front and 62% rear, for surefooted, high performance in all conditions. That capability enhanced by the favorable weight distribution of the EB112 with Bugatti engineers positioning the powerful V12 as far back as possible between the axles in a front mid-mounted configuration. A technical specification that supported not just the dynamic ability but also enhanced the crash safety performance.
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