W16 engine


A W16 engine is a sixteen cylinder piston engine with four banks of four cylinders in a W configuration.
W16 engines are rarely produced, with the notable exception of the Volkswagen Group 8.0 WR16 engine that has been used since 2005 in the Bugatti Veyron, Bugatti Chiron and their related models.

Volkswagen Group

Volkswagen Group is the only manufacturer to currently produce a W16 engine, which has been used in the Bugatti Veyron and Bugatti Chiron since 2005. This engine has a displacement of and four turbochargers. It is effectively two narrow-angle VR8 engines mated at an included angle of 90 degrees on a common crankshaft.
The most powerful version of this engine, installed in the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+, generates at 7,000 rpm.

Other manufacturers

In 1916, a rotary valve W16 engine was built in France by Gaston Mougeotte.
The Jimenez Novia, a one-off sports car built in 1995, used a W16 engine with two crankshafts. Built by combining four Yamaha FZR1000 inline-four motorcycle engines, the engine has a displacement of, eight camshafts and five valves per cylinder, and produces.