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Mercedes F1 driver Michael Schumacher’s very rare Bugatti EB 110 Sport Stradale is up for sale.
For connoisseurs of Bugatti, the EB 110 range will always be known as the unhappy middle ground between Bugatti’s classic heritage and its current Veyron buoyed stature.
When the Bugatti brand was revived in the early 1990s, the EB 110 was designed and produced for four years before the company went into receivership - only to be revived (properly) when VW money bought the famous nameplate in 1998.
Despite being rather ungainly looking, the EB 110s were awfully quick courtesy of a mid-mounted 3.5l quad-turbo V12 engine and all-wheel drive.
A year after the EB 110 was launched in 1991 the Sport Stradale version was produced. It featured a 484kW version of the 3.5l engine and trimmed the stock EB 110’s mass by 197kg to only a shade more than 1.4t.
Unsurprisingly the EB 110 Sport Stradales touched 350km/h and clipped 100km/h from a standing start in only 3.2 seconds.
Despite the similar scissor-doors, EB 110 was vastly less appealing than its period rival (Lamborghini's Diablo) aesthetically. In terms of performance though...
A very special EB 110
The EB 110 Sport Stradale range gained an awful lot of publicity for the brand when Michael Schumacher bough a (very) yellow one in 1994 – the year he won his first F1 world championship.
Only 33 EB 110 Sport Stradales were ever produced and Schumacher’s car is arguably the one to have as it combines the luxuriously appointed EB 110 GT cabin ergonomics with the extreme Sport Stradale's mechanics.
Schumacher did not get around to driving the EB 110 much though, the odometer reading tallies a lowly 4 627km.
Considering the frigid relations between Schumacher and his former Italian employer and it's strikingly ironic that Maranello motors of Cologne, Germany, is marketing this most famous of all EB 110 Sport Stradale's.
Price? A rather dear €600 000. Then again, this is one of the rarest of all supercars and had impeccable pedigree - being owned by the most successful F1 driver of all time.
For connoisseurs of Bugatti, the EB 110 range will always be known as the unhappy middle ground between Bugatti’s classic heritage and its current Veyron buoyed stature.
When the Bugatti brand was revived in the early 1990s, the EB 110 was designed and produced for four years before the company went into receivership - only to be revived (properly) when VW money bought the famous nameplate in 1998.
Despite being rather ungainly looking, the EB 110s were awfully quick courtesy of a mid-mounted 3.5l quad-turbo V12 engine and all-wheel drive.
A year after the EB 110 was launched in 1991 the Sport Stradale version was produced. It featured a 484kW version of the 3.5l engine and trimmed the stock EB 110’s mass by 197kg to only a shade more than 1.4t.
Unsurprisingly the EB 110 Sport Stradales touched 350km/h and clipped 100km/h from a standing start in only 3.2 seconds.
Despite the similar scissor-doors, EB 110 was vastly less appealing than its period rival (Lamborghini's Diablo) aesthetically. In terms of performance though...
A very special EB 110
The EB 110 Sport Stradale range gained an awful lot of publicity for the brand when Michael Schumacher bough a (very) yellow one in 1994 – the year he won his first F1 world championship.
Only 33 EB 110 Sport Stradales were ever produced and Schumacher’s car is arguably the one to have as it combines the luxuriously appointed EB 110 GT cabin ergonomics with the extreme Sport Stradale's mechanics.
Schumacher did not get around to driving the EB 110 much though, the odometer reading tallies a lowly 4 627km.
Considering the frigid relations between Schumacher and his former Italian employer and it's strikingly ironic that Maranello motors of Cologne, Germany, is marketing this most famous of all EB 110 Sport Stradale's.
Price? A rather dear €600 000. Then again, this is one of the rarest of all supercars and had impeccable pedigree - being owned by the most successful F1 driver of all time.
