The fascinating story of the W16-powered Lamborghini Diablo prototype, a unique test mule that would go on to power Bugatti ...

First introduced in concept form in 2000, Bugatti's W16 engine entered production in the Veyron hypercar in 2005, changing the landscape of performance as we know it forever. Essentially two ...

Revealed in August 2022, the W16 Mistral is a midship swansong for the quad-turbo colossus introduced by the Bugatti Veyron a whopping two decades ago. Revised for the Chiron, the 8.0-liter powerplant ...

Bugatti is ready to ride like the wind. The French hypercar builder has unveiled the last car it will ever build with the brand's legendary 8.0-liter quad-turbocharged 16-cylinder engine before it ...

Bugatti’s W16 engine has defined the modern hypercar era, and its final track-focused evolution arrives as a kind of mechanical curtain call. The brand is using this last, unrestrained circuit weapon ...

Former chief of Australia’s short-lived tuner company Giocattolo Motori, 72-year-old Paul Halstead has announced his latest project, which happens to be a three-seater speedster with a mid-mounted ...

Almost a year after it was first presented, the swan song of the W16 Bugatti engine - aka the mid-engine two-seater Mistral convertible - is getting customized by the company's bespoke unit, Sur ...

For almost 20 years, Bugatti watched every other automaker in the industry gradually downsize and turbocharge their engines. Even the worlds highest-performance sports cars have switched to smaller, ...

While many other automakers use electric powertrains to make their ridiculously powerful cars go fast, the Bugatti Chiron is still powered by a good, old-fashioned, gasoline-fueled 8.0-liter W16. With ...

Bugatti may have given the W16 engine its marching orders, but the 16-cylinder behemoth isn't going out quietly. The outsized heart of the Chiron, and the Veyron before it, the powertrain is getting ...

The quad-turbo W16 in use in current Bugattis is a real engineering marvel, made of two banks of narrow-angle VR8 cylinder banks and quad-turbocharged. But before it was an ever stranger looking ...

It’s time to say goodbye to Bugatti’s mighty W16 engine. First introduced with the era-defining Veyron in 2005, the W16 went on to power every version of Veyron and its Chiron successor, including the ...