The Bugatti 18/3 Chiron was a concept sports car designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. Bugatti was founded in Molsheim, France, as a manufacturer of high performance automobiles by Ettore Bugatti, an Italian A sports car is a term used to describe a class of Automobile. Giorgetto Giugiaro (born August 7, 1938) is an Italian Automobile designer He was born in Garessio, Province of Cuneo It was a mid-engine design with the same W18 engine found in the EB 118 and EB 218 concept cars. A mid-engine layout describes the placement of an Automobile engine between the rear and front axles A W18 engine is an eighteen cylinder piston engine which usually has a single crankshaft with three banks of six cylinders arranged in an inverted broad arrow configuration The Bugatti EB118 show car debuted in 1998 It featured a 62 litre Turbocharged W18 engine The Bugatti EB218 was a concept sedan. It is a limousine in the vein of the legendary 1926 Bugatti Royale with a 3 meter (118 in wheelbase and is 212 in (5385 mm The Chiron name comes from famed Bugatti racing driver, Louis Chiron. Louis Alexandre Chiron (born 3 August 1899 in Monte Carlo, Monaco – died there on 22 June 1979) was a champion