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

Even the engine's base form is confusing with common designations like V-Twin, inline-four, straight-six, V6, and V8. Throw in V16 and the weirder-sounding W16 and it almost becomes a foreign ...

With its 6.0-liter W16 engine, it can rumble past a jaw-dropping 260 mph top speed seemingly without any effort. But the Veyron wasn't the first or only supercar with a W16 engine behind the ...

Revealed at Monterey Car Week in California, it is the last car to be powered by Bentley’s six-litre, W16 engine, yet also gives a first look at the design language of Bentley’s upcoming ...

Beneath the fancy-looking ski, the Bugatti W16 Mistral features the same construction as the Chiron. Even the engine was lifted from this model and is found on the Super Sport and Super Sport 300 ...

Another small but interesting technical detail that’s been discovered in F1 2025 testing, this time on the Mercedes W16, is a duct that’s embedded in the floor. Given its location there’s ...

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has branded the 2025 W16 Formula One car as more "stable" compared to the previous cars of the current ground effect era that Lewis Hamilton struggled with.