Born in Vienna on April 17, 1937, Ferdinand Karl Piëch was fascinated by technology from an early age – a passion that would ...

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 ...

It has been approximately one month since Bugatti assembled the first customer cars of the W16 Mistral, and someone is already trying to cash in on their rare luxury grand tourer with hypercar ...

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 ...

Though early concepts boasted a three-bank W18, an 8.0-litre, quad-turbocharged W16 is what you’ll find under the skin of the production Veyron, featuring four banks of four cylinders for an ...

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 ...

The Veyron's chief designer was Hartmut Warkuss ... 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 have ...

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 ...