Bugatti EB 218

The Bugatti EB 218 is a concept saloon, the second concept car shown by Bugatti under Volkswagen Group ownership. Giorgetto Giugiaro designed it, as he had its predecessor the EB 112 and its two-door variant the EB 118, and it can be seen as an update of the EB 112 concept that Bugatti Automobili S.p.A. introduced in 1993. It was shown at the 1999 Geneva Motor Show, a year after the EB 118 appeared in Paris. The wheelbase is 3 metres and the overall length 5,385 millimetres, 315 millimetres longer than the EB 112, with a redesigned bonnet, bumpers and lights and a more conventional saloon shape than the EB 112's hatchback look. The interior is simple but luxurious, with beige leather seats and a large wooden dashboard, and the design draws on the classic Type 101. It used Volkswagen's unconventional W18 engine, with three banks of six cylinders, producing 414 kilowatts, and permanent four-wheel drive borrowed from the Lamborghini Diablo VT, the same powertrain as the EB 118 and the 18/3 Chiron.