Bugatti thrills customer with $10m Centodieci delivered four years after

One of Bugatti’s rarest pieces of automotive excellence has finally come to fruition. It is Bugatti Centodieci.

The anticipation period, four years, is finally over for a great enthusiast and user who just received the Bugatti Centodieci, a specially built car.

It has been almost four years since Bugatti first unveiled the $8.9 million Centodieci, and now the first has been delivered.

Just 10 examples are planned to be built, with the first customer example shown recently at Bugatti’s plant in Molsheim, France.

The Centodieci was unveiled in 2019 in celebration of the EB110 . Centodieci is Italian for “110” and the car is simply the latest in a growing line of modern coach-built specials based on the Bugatti Chiron, which started with the Divo in 2018.

Bugatti says the Centodieci was inspired by the design of the legendary EB110, the super sport car launched in 1991, the 110th birthday of Ettore Bugatti.

Why four years

Bugatti explains that it had to put its custom-built cars through the same rigorous testing and evaluation programme as its regular production cars. That means 186,000 miles of high-speed testing.

“That’s a pretty crazy thing to do for a 10 car run, but when you’re paying $10 million for a car, you expect it to be perfect,” the supercar manufacturer says.

The car is said to have undergone extreme testing over 50,000km on road and track, aerodynamically fine-tuned in the wind tunnel, and tested from -20C to the simmering +45C sun of Arizona

The first example of Centodieci was built in Bugatti Blue, the characteristic colour of the brand and of the EB110.

A contemporary version of the EB110’s exterior and interior blends with the latest technology and Bugatti know-how to sculpt the Centodieci.

Bugatti says, “Since the introduction of the Centodieci in Bugatti’s 110th anniversary year of 2019, all 10 Centodiecis were immediately accounted for, and EB110’s began to sell for amazing numbers at auction, most recently for over $2 million by RM Sotheby’s at Amelia Island. Now that we’ve seen what this well-deserved hype has led to, it’s time for the era of the Bugatti Centodieci to begin.”

The interior draws inspiration from its prestigious forebear, but reinvigorated for the modern era of coachbuilt hyper sports cars.

The quilted chessboard-like pattern found on the seats, roof liner, door panels, center console and floor mats was first established in the EB110 but elevated here with a bespoke application.

Despite the many curves and joins, the pattern seamlessly lines up across areas of the interior. The process of creating the Centodieci interior takes around 16 weeks to complete, including one-day dedicated solely to meticulously examining the seats.

Featuring the iconic 8.0-litre W16 engine producing 1,600PS, the Centodieci accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 2.4 seconds to a top speed of 380 km/h.

Bugatti’s chassis engineers worked extensively to perfect the hyper sports car’s handling to produce a unique dynamic Bugatti experience behind the wheel.

President of Bugatti Automobiles, Christophe Piocheon, says, “We at Bugatti in Molsheim are proud to have completed and delivered the very first Centodieci – Bugatti’s latest few-off model.

“The Centodieci builds upon Ettore Bugatti’s successful 110-year lineage of exceptional design and performance, while reviving the memory of the brand’s recent history. The EB110, built by Romano Artioli in Italy, was a critical path to the re-establishment of Bugatti in 1998.

“After two years of relentless development, we have refined the Centodieci to the standard our customers expect of all Bugatti models. Our designers and engineers pour the very same passion and desire for perfection into the marque’s few-off models as they do for Bugatti’s series production units.”

The car is decked out in a colour called EB110 Blue, a variation of the blue that served as a hero colour for the original EB110 and was even used to line the Italian factory where the EB110 was built.

 

The blue, in combination with the silver wheels, is the same configuration on an EB110 already in the collection of this Centodieci’s owner.

The interior design of the Centodieci is also inspired by the EB110, specifically the Super Sport version. Callbacks include a chessboard upholstery pattern and an embossed “EB” logo in the headrests. The process of creating the Centodieci interior takes around 16 weeks to complete, including one whole day just for the seats.