The Centodieci is the company’s latest coachbuilt super car commemorating Bugatti’s 110th anniversary.
Bugatti debuted its most powerful supercar at Pebble Beach on Friday: a $10 million, 8.0-liter W16 engine, 1,600 horsepower throwback to the ’90s that sprints from 0 to 62 mph in 2.4 seconds, to 124 mph in 6.1 seconds and to 186 mph in 13.1 seconds. Like its cousin the Chiron, Bugatti electronically limited the top speed of the car to 236 mph.
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Centodieci, meaning the number 110 in Italian, takes cues from the EB110 supercar that was developed in the late 1980s and debuted in 1991. It was inspired by the Bauhaus style and was extremely wedge-shaped—almost to the point of looking two-dimensional from some angles—and is the next step in the company’s stated strategy of building highly unique, even one-off cars for the world’s wealthiest car collectors.
The design is quite a divergence from the scooped, sculpted bodies of the Veyron and Chiron. Instead of the dominant “Bugatti” line that curves from their backs and swooshes to the front, Centodieci has an almost completely flat roofline that blends into a mechanical rear spoiler—edges along its sides as crisply pressed as an envelope—and what look like 22-inch wheels have seven angled rectangular blades on them. The rear end has a single ventilation hole and eight rear lights, four matte black exhaust tailpipes stacked two-by-two on top of each other, and a performance diffuser to improve downforce.
Ten Centodieci coupes will be hand-built in Molsheim, France, with deliveries starting in 2021. Prices start at $8.9 million, plus tax. And yes, customers can have their Centodieci painted in the color of their choice.
