In 1987 former Lamborghini owner Ferruccio Lamborghini, engineer Paolo Stanzani, designer Nuccio Bertone, Italian businessman Romano Artioli and French professor Jean-Marc Borel set off to build a special supercar.
For the occasion, they founded Bugatti Automobili S.p.A. in Campogalliano, Italy, near Modena. or the development of the car, all of the latest technologies avaliable at the time were used.
The Bugatti factory was designed by Romano Artioli’s cousin Giampaolo Benedini, and was regarded as the most advanced and beautiful car factory in the world. During deveopment of the car, the company hired famed racing designer and engineer Mauro Forghieri, creator of Ferrari’s 312 series and Lamborghini’s V-12 used in the early Diablos. Bugatti also recruited assemblers from Maserati and other personnel from Fiat.
Loris Bicocchi was given the role of test driver, and some of the most acclaimed car designers in the world, including Marcello Gandini, Giorgietto Giugiaro and Paolo Martin were also hired alongside Nuccio Bertone.
