As Bentley bids adieu to its W-12 engine, we take one last grand tour to remind us of its goodness. The 12-cylinder engine has long been the ultimate in luxury car powertrains.

Believe it or not, Volvo used to make an incredibly powerful turbocharged inline 6-cylinder engine. Most of their products currently come with either a turbo 4-cylinder or an electrically assisted ...

Production of the W12 engine will be replaced with expanded assembly of V8 and V6 hybrid engines, according to the company. Bentley says it has produced more than 100,000 of the W12 engines since ...

The 12-cylinder has been replaced by a plug-in hybrid V-8 powertrain Bentley on Tuesday celebrated the construction of the final W-12 engine at its plant in Crewe, U.K., ending a run that lasted ...

Bentley said goodbye to the twin-turbo 6.0-liter W12 powertrain. Over 100,000 examples of the 12-cylinder engine were hand-built since its debut at the 2003 Bentley Continental GT.

The design allowed for a 12-cylinder design that didn't require the additional length needed to accommodate a traditional V12 engine. While the Bentley W12 took a similar philosophical approach ...

The 12-cylinder engine is alive and well with two debuts this week, a trailer dropped for the upcoming Ayrton Senna mini-series, and a software update completed the Tesla Cybertruck months after ...

“I’m personally a big fan of the 12-cylinder engine but the new eight-cylinder is a better engine,” Matthias Rabe, Bentley board member for R&D told me. “It’s a very emotional, all ...

Mercedes said in an investor presentation that the 12-cylinder engine and the AMG V-8 will continue to be used in future new vehicle models.

A 12-cylinder engine posed greater complexity, but also yielded a lighter overall package compared to an engine with fewer cylinders but the same displacement. This translated to higher rev limits ...