To bring a long-dormant automotive marque back to life is no mean feat, and the stakes are even higher when the marque in question is as hallowed as Bugatti.

In the late 1980s, Italian entrepreneur Romano Artioli rose to this challenge, and while his dream was relatively short-lived, the vehicle he brought to fruition—the Bugatti EB110—is truly regarded as a worthy successor to the legendary nameplate.

After several years of relentless development, with the anticipation of production success, Artioli went so far as to commission a stylish modern factory for the reborn automaker the scale of which testified to his ambition.

One even suspects that Ettore Bugatti himself would have appreciated the size and grandeur of the impressive, architecturally imposing facility.

Artioli’s iteration of Bugatti was located in the high-performance hotspot known as the Motor Valley—Modena, Italy.

This area has produced some of the world’s most desirable supercars for decades, and its concentration ...