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 2006 Bugatti Veyron arrived as more than a new flagship hypercar. Its quad‑turbocharged W16 engine rewrote what a road‑legal production car could do, resetting expectations for power, speed, and ...

Twenty years ago, the automotive industry was operating under a specific set of assumed limitations. There were supercars, certainly—machines designed to turn heads, go fast, and generally make a ...