The Casil Motors Edonis Is A Reborn Bugatti EB110
The weirdest chapter in the history of Bugatti almost certainly covers the few years in the early 1990s when the EB110 was in production. An Italian entrepreneur had snapped up the brand, set up shop near Modena and started putting together a bonkers V12, quad-turbo, all-wheel drive supercar.
Just a few years and 139 EB110s later, the re-launched Bugatti outfit went bust. It’s a fairly well-known story now, but there’s a part of it that might be news to you: a group of former Bugatti engineers snapped up 17 unused EB110 carbonfibre tubs, and formed a company called B-Engineering. The plan? To use the tubs to build a new supercar.
The new firm got quite far with it, too. It was called the Edonis, which B Engineering unveiled in 2001. With the company going on hiatus not long after it seemed the Edonis would be yet another vapourware supercar, but now Las Vegas-based Casil Motors has stepped in and promised to make these re-born EB110s a reality.
Working together with B Engineering, Casil claims the re-christened SP-110 Edonis is in the “final stages of development.” 15 will be sold, each with not only an original EB110 tub at its core, but also the old V12.
There are some key differences, though. The V12’s displacement has jumped from 3.5 to 3.8 litres, and the complex quad-turbo setup has been replaced for a more conventional twin-turbo affair. Oh, and it’s quite a bit pokier: power is now at 710bhp, up from 542bhp.
It weighs just 1400kg, will do 0-60mph in 3.4 seconds, 0-100mph in 8.2 seconds, and top out at over 220mph. It’ll be quite a hands-on thing to drive too, as the EB110’s four-wheel drive system has been ditched. And yes, your only choice of gearbox is of the six-speed manual variety.
You certainly can’t argue with the mechanicals, but the hand-beaten aluminium body? That’s a little more divisive. The styling is best described as ‘busy’, and is it just us, or does it have a bit of a sad face?
Regardless, we can’t imagine Casil will have much trouble finding buyers for all 15, even if the starting price is a cool €690,000 (£600,000).
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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When you realise you’re only going to be delivered to a garage and never to be seen outside again.
That’s the face you pull.
“All around me are familiar faces…”
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Worn out places….. Worn out faces….
Meme of the day
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
It does look a little depressed, doesn’t it?
This is a 2018 car? Judging from the styling (and frankly from the photo quality too), I’d have guessed maybe 2000, like the early-model Koenigsegg CC and Pagani Zonda. I like oddball supercars usually, but this thing looks really weird and really out of time.
Your guess is right - I don’t think they’ve changed the styling much (if at all) from the version that was revealed back in 2001. Or it might just be that a revised body is yet to be revealed
Yes- think Aston DB4 GT continuation but for something more modern
Damn, this is the most depressed car I’ve ever seen
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That price is enough to make the owner pull the same face as the car.
So excited- this was a childhood poster car for me. Now I can finally see one
It’s ugly….plain and simple ugly.
Ugly