The unusual Bugatti W16 engine is a marvelous combination of compact size and prodigious power output. The largest, most complex version of the Volkswagen Group's W8/W12/W16 engine family, the W16 ...

We all know the mighty Bugatti Veyron, poster boy of the Fastest Production Car title (even though it's not) in any boy's Top of the Trumps pack of cards. With its 6.0-liter W16 engine ...

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. Courtesy of Bugatti Even the basic details of the car seem ridiculous. For example, it wasn’t powered by a big V8; that would be too plain for Piëch. Instead, it used an ...

The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is a mid-engine grand touring ... Instead of the W18, it would use a VR6/WR8-style W16 engine. First seen in the 1999 Bentley Hunaudières concept car, the W16 would ...

This remarkable feat was a testament to ... of the Veyron Super Sport, featuring significant improvements over its predecessor. These included an upgraded 8.0-liter W16 engine producing 1,200 ...

Few cars portray a leap of faith in engineering such as did the Bugatti Veyron. Born in an era of engineering ... one that was fundamentally underpinned by the W16 quad-turbo powertrain that ...

We don't yet know what changes have been made to this Veyron's quad-turbo W16 engine, but rumors suggest that Bugatti has exceeded the engine's current power rating of 1,000 hp by so much that the ...

At some point, someone is going to have to hand the minds at Bugatti a physics book and tell ... performance threshold by building a new Super Veyron capable of snapping to 60 mph in 1.8 seconds.

At the heart of this event was the definitive edition of Bugatti’s iconic W16 engine, which has powered the indomitable Veyron and a plethora of Chiron models, among others. Designed to deliver ...

Given that Bugatti's quad-turbo W16 has reached its twilight years before ... Don’t be fooled into thinking the Chiron is propelled by a Veyron engine with the wick turned-up a bit.

Bugatti doesn't have a high output (only 99 Bugatti W16 Mistral will ever be made ... that are obscenely expensive to maintain. Veyron owner Manny Khoshbin estimates maintaining his Bugatti ...