Not often does an engine become more famous than the car it powers, but Bugatti's W16 engine is the exception. Sure, the Bugatti Veyron is an iconic car, as it marked the start of the modern hypercar ...

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 ...

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 ...

At more than one point in the past 100 years, the fastest car in the world was a Bugatti. Ever since automobile designer Ettore Bugatti founded his eponymous company in 1909, his name has been ...

Twenty years ago, the automotive industry was operating under a specific set of assumed limitations. There were supercars, certainly—machines designed to turn heads, go fast, and generally make a ...