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 created by combining two narrow-angle V8 engines into a W configuration. The father of the Bugatti W16 engine was engineer Ferdinand Piëch, also Bugatti-owner Volkswagen’s Chairman of the Board at the time of the idea. Originally an 18-cylinder engine, it was modified to become today’s W16. Piëch had
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