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Originally Posted by amanichen
Well I said that because you can't treat Bugatti as its own company anymore...it's now just a nameplate for VW.
VW absorbed the EB110 design and took it to the extreme for the Veyron -- it's their vision of what the next Bugatti would be. B-Engineering took remaining EB110 chassis and made a very competant car with it, and released it in 2001. B-Engineering never boasted about power or top speed...they just made it, and in less time than it took VW to finally make the Veyron stable at high speeds. It just seems like nameplate abuse to me -- it's obvious where the real engineering talent at Bugatti went to. We're now at 2005 and finally the Veyron is fully cooked, after being a series of half-baked prototypes that first debuted in the year 2000.
I know it may seem like nitpicking, but you can't call Bugatti, "Bugatti" anymore.
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I can agree that this is a new reformed company, but I have never contested otherwise. Usually during parnerships and hostile take-overs, there is a big change that happens to the subsidiary company.
In any case, the point of my post was to admire the tenacity of the people of Bugatti to achieve there goal. They could have just slapped together parts like B. Engineering did and we would just have another faceless addition to the sea of supercars we have today. Bugatti was going bankrupt until VW stepped in and now VW wants Bugatti to get some recognition. The only way of doing that is if they do something big. Going 400km/h is a techological feat for a street car and would get Bugatti the attention that they wanted. They spent the last few years working to deliver what they had promised which is much more difficult than to admit defeat and build a car that goes 350km/h.