When Bugatti introduced its W16 engine in its Veyron supercar in 2005, it was the most powerful production car ever, and the first to crack the mythical four-figure horsepower barrier. 1,001 metric ...

Bugatti has long been synonymous with excess, the kind of engineering brilliance that ignores practical constraints in favor of absolute mechanical dominance. But even by Bugatti standards, the new ...

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 was ...

Bugatti’s famed 16-cylinder is the first W-configuration engine used in a passenger vehicle. It’s also been a fixture of the two hypercars, and their many variants, that the company has built since it ...