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 ...

The last Bugatti Bolide is more than a customer delivery, it is the closing chapter of one of the most audacious engine stories in automotive history. With this car, Bugatti draws a firm line under ...

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 ...

The W16 Mistral, the ultimate roadster entitled to wear license plates, will number 99 units. Priced at 5 million euros, which is $4.8 million at current exchange rates, the Chiron Super Sport-based ...

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, ...

RM Sotheby’s Paris sale is brimming with seven-figure collector cars. We doubt any will lap a circuit as quickly as this ...

Sebastian's spare time is spent watching Formula 1, fiddling with his friends' cars (usually German money pits), and soaking up as much architectural amazement and engineering excellence as he can ...

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 ...

George Russell has given more details on the ‘new trap’ Mercedes are looking to avoid with the W16, having hinted at a “significant change” to this year’s car. Russell took two race victories last ...

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 some ...