“The Bugatti EB110 is 100 percent ... with its bleeding-edge carbon-fiber tub, its all-wheel-drive, and its quad-turbocharged, 60-valve 3.5-liter V-12 built entirely in-house.

The Bugatti is a much more complex machine than Gordon Murray’s minimalist master­piece, using a quad-turbocharged V-12 and a pioneering all-wheel-drive system. Cars like the Porsche 918 Spyder ...