Hitching a ride in Porsche 959 Sport, Bugatti EB110 headed to auction - Los Angeles Times
They were the supercar poster children of the 1980s and 1990s: Porsche’s groundbreaking 959 and Bugatti’s EB110 graced countless magazine covers and bedroom walls, alongside other now-classics like the Lamborghini Countach and Diablo and the... RM Auctions will be offering a 1993 Bugatti EB110 at a presale estimate of $575,000 to $775,000. Meanwhile, Santa Monica-based Gooding and Co. will have a rare Porsche 959 Sport up for auction with a presale estimate of $1. 5 million to $2 million. Prior to the cars being shipped off to Arizona, we grabbed a ride in each one to fulfill a childhood fantasy and see how these cars have held up over the years. The cars had to be all-wheel drive and use turbocharged engines, mainstays in today’s supercar world, but rare features in the 1980s. Regulations also dictated that the engine be no larger than 2. 85 liters, tiny by supercar standards of any era. Yet Porsche threw its full engineering weight at the project and came up with a twin-turbocharged flat six-cylinder engine that made 450 horsepower. Of the 284 models Porsche built, just 29 were the more aggressive Sport models (the regular cars are referred to as Komfort models). Source: www.latimes.com
