Bugatti EB.LA Review

The Bugatti EB.LA is a response, an answer to the question: “What would be if Jean Bugatti would be not dead?” This question has put the 24-year old design student Marian Hilgers within his Bachelor thesis at the University of Pforzheim and worked out a counter-proposal to the Bugatti Veyron.

And this should merge “Technical innovation, the combination of structure and function, consistent lightweight construction and efficiency, fine mechanical precision, the connection to racing and outstanding driving performance” in the spirit of innovation and according to Marian Hilgers, Jean Bugatti.

Bugatti EB.LA for three passengers

Hilgers Bugatti EB is 4.62 meters. LA long, flat and 1.96 metres wide – comparison measures 1.10 meters the Veyron 4.46 meters in length and comes almost two meters wide and 1.2 metres in height. The Bugatti EB.LA can three people.LA record, here oriented, the seating arrangement on the McLaren F1, in which the driver is also centered and the two passenger transferred him to the rear flank. All three look through a large windscreen that per goes over into a heavily contoured hood. The Clou: only in direct front view, the outline of the legendary and now modern interpreted Bugatti radiator is to see. Strong wings create space for huge wheels in five-spoke design and pile up like two mountain ridge before the A-pillars of the Bugatti EB.LA on.

In print Bugatti EB.LA preview, powerful grooves between the wheels fall up in the top view the downhill leading quest. These form the backbone of carbon fibre monocoque, which also represents the body of Bugatti. “In this quest the carbon fibre monocoque is reinforced in addition with ultra lightweight metal foam” said Hilgers. “Curves to this quest around the rest of the surface, and carries to the further stability of the overall shape with, similar to the Panton-Chair.” “Through these pillars out the shape of the surface and the wide can save a lot of material in the monocoque and the entire module is total approximately 50 percent lighter than conventional designs and body.”

Bugatti study with 600-HP hybrid

All braces the almost classic sports car body to run on two fins at the rear, which differ greatly from the remaining design of Bugatti. These elements are similar to the radiator at the front and to the Bugatti EB.LA  in its distinctive form. LA keep at crosswind on course. Finally, the big weighs only 750 kg. As a leverage, not he acts a huge 8, 0 liter w16 with at least 1,001 HP, which fired the 1.9-tonne Veyron. In the Bugatti EB.LA works a symbiosis of a supercharged four cylinder, two electric motors on the front wheels and a flywheel storage. The Bugatti with this hybrid drive to develop around 600 HP. The Bugatti EB.LA has emerged as Bachelor thesis in the VW Design Center in Potsdam.