In 1997, traveling on a high-speed train in Japan, Piëch drew the basic design of a radical 18-cylinder engine on an envelope. The sketch would lead to the W16 engine that powered various Bugatti ...
With its 6.0-liter W16 engine, it can rumble past a jaw-dropping 260 mph top speed seemingly without any effort. But the Veyron wasn't the first or only supercar with a W16 engine behind the ...