THE ROAD CAR
Bugatti Centodieci
Ten cars. €8 million each. All hand-built at Molsheim.
The Centodieci — Italian for 'one hundred and ten' — was Bugatti's gift to itself for its 110th birthday in 2019. The brief was to build a Chiron-based hypercar that paid explicit, unambiguous homage to the 1991 EB110 SS, the four-turbo V12 supercar from Bugatti's Campogalliano-era revival under Romano Artioli.
Mechanically the Centodieci is a re-tuned Chiron. The 8.0-litre quad-turbo W16 produces 1,600 PS (1,578 hp / 1,177 kW) at 7,000 rpm — about 100 hp more than the standard Chiron — pushing 0–100 km/h in 2.4 seconds, 0–200 in 6.1 seconds, 0–300 in 13.1 seconds. Top speed is electronically limited to 380 km/h. Curb weight is 1,976 kg, twenty kilos under the Chiron despite the EB110-style fixed rear wing.
Visually the car is a study in EB110 references. The horseshoe grille is smaller and more upright; the headlamps echo the EB110's pop-ups in their line; and the five circular air intakes punched into each flank — the Centodieci's most photographed detail — are direct quotations of the EB110's NACA-duct flank vents. The rear deck is short and abrupt, ending in a fixed-position spoiler with eight tiny exhaust slots that arrange in two rows of four.
Production was capped at ten units. All were spoken for at the August 2019 reveal. Hand-builds began at Bugatti's Molsheim factory in 2020. Customer deliveries ran from June 2022 to 19 December 2022, when the tenth and final car was handed to its owner.
- Engine
- 8.0L quad-turbo W16 (Chiron-based, retuned)
- Power
- 1,600 PS (1,578 hp / 1,177 kW) at 7,000 rpm
- Top speed
- 380 km/h (limited)
- Years built
- 2022, 10 units, all hand-built at Molsheim
