GM's L92 V8 is built to last, but a teardown reveals a recurring flaw that can turn this tough engine into scrap metal.

Engine development has taken thousands of small steps from the 1850s single-cylinder engine used by Carl Benz in the Patent Motorwagen to the 1,600-hp W16 in the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport.

At the center of this amazing car, we find the mighty 8.0-liter W16 engine, a technical symbol of Bugatti’s renaissance. It uses the same forged aluminum alloy cylinder block with plasma-coated ...

His concept later became a 16-cylinder engine, but dropping a pair of cylinders didn’t make the unit easier to develop. Bugatti engineers started from scratch in order to make the W16 a reality.

There are plenty of gargantuan engines in production these days. The Chevrolet ZZ632/1000 comes to mind, a big-block V8 that puts out 1,004 ponies and costs more than a new Silverado 1500. Be that ...

Essentially, the engineers at Bugatti created a 16-cylinder engine that is the size of a 12-cylinder engine. But this W16 is more than just the sum total of two V8s. Bugatti’s W16 is enhanced by ...

Stranger even than a Citroën SM in the Detroit suburbs is stumbling upon an 8-liter sixteen cylinder engine block from a $1.7 million Bugatti Veyron in a Budapest street.

So, you’d think that a watch with a little model W16 engine in it would be just fantastic, and, while it is very impressive technically, once I learned the price of this watch—$280,000 ...

Volkswagen carried on producing W-blocks, but only for flagships worthy of 12- and 16-cylinder engines. The Touareg was one of such and received the engine in 2005 along with Bentley’s Flying Spur.

The W16 and V16 engines both have 16 cylinders, but they are very different engines. Here are the differences between those ...