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, ...

Last week would have marked Ferdinand Piëch's 88th birthday, and to mark the occasion Bugatti put out a release telling the fascinating story of how Piëch resurrected the brand and created the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 as ...

Bugatti may have given the W16 engine its marching orders, but the 16-cylinder behemoth isn't going out quietly. The outsized heart of the Chiron, and the Veyron before it, the powertrain is getting ...

Ever since the Bugatti Veyron shattered records back in 2005, the brand’s calling card has been its engine—a quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W16. However, as reported by Autocar, 2027 will mark the end of ...

Bugatti showed its final internal combustion engined car at “The Quail: a Motorsport Gathering” in Monterey today, dubbing it the W16 Mistral, and announcing that the entire production run of 99 ...

Ryan de Villiers is a budding automotive journalist based in South Africa and serving as one of the newest additions to the CarBuzz team. He immediately pursued a career in journalism after finishing ...