A forgotten modern-day supercar: The B Engineering Edonis #blogpost

The Edonis is widely known (by the few who remember it) as the car the EB110 should have been. Released 14 years ago, though you couldn’t tell by its exotic, albeit subjective styling, by the Italian B Engineering, a company formed by a small group of former Bugatti employees from when they went bankrupt in 1995, hence the ‘B’ standing for Bugatti.
The failure of Romano Artioli’s incarnation of Bugatti, as many know, was rather unfortunately the Mclaren F1, which completely took the world by storm and turned the supercar world on its head just 3 years after the EB110’s release, outgunning the EB110 in every aspect. Yes, you could also argue the styling was odd in places and looked oddly similar to the Lamborghini Diablo, and went through a lot of famous designers trying to come up with the final design, and spent a great deal of money trying to buy Lotus, but it wasn’t as if it got bad publicity; Michael Schumacher owned one. So it was largely down to ill timing.
And the death of Bugatti left a lot of highly skilled engineers out of a job and not much to do and some unfinished EB110s lying around, why not create a swansong to Bugatti?

Specifications

-The only major component left over from the EB110 was the carbon-fibre chassis.
-The car was converted from all wheel drive to rear wheel drive saving 70kg
-The engine was enlarged from 3.5 litres to 3.8 litres, and 2 large turbos were put in the place of the 4 small ones.
-The design of the aluminium body was penned by Nicola Materazzi
-680hp @ 8000rpm
-c. 1,500kg
-therefore 480bhp/ton
-542lb ft @ 3200rpm
-top speed of 227mph
-0-60mph was 3.8 seconds
-21 supposedly built, no-one knows the actual count
-c£450,000 new, very rarely come on the used market but one last advertised for 1 million euros

All of these made the Edonis a much more savage and raw car than the EB110, and in fact, probably any other car built during that time.