In this article we are focusing on one extremely rare type of engine: the V16, which, as suggested by its name, arranges two ...

1,000 pistons firing every single second. When Bugatti's V16 engine reaches 7,500 RPM, something very special happens. 16 cylinders at 7500 RPM, with each cylinder firing once per two crank ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called out the United Auto Workers (UAW) union on Friday for endorsing President Donald Trump’s automobile tariffs. In a CNN appearance, the ...

Just listen to the grunt of that throttle. It's a mammoth of a V16 engine too, at 51 inches (130 cm) long. To accommodate it, Garage 54 chopped off the front end of the Lada, extended it and then ...

Each type of engine has its own particular sound, of course. We’re most used to hearing 4-cylinder blocks, though V6s and V8s remain none too rare. Much rarer? The roar of V12 and V16 engines.

Auto Union (now rolled into the Audi brand) came up with the idea to clothe its Grand Prix cars in sleek bodywork and sell them to rich folk. It never got beyond the sketch phase however – until ...

with independent suspension all around and a V16 engine producing in the region of 300bhp. “The rule makers thought this limit would rule out high-power cars. It didn’t” The question was, who would ...

What was created was the Auto Union Type A, powered by a supercharged 4.4L V16 engine, which hit the racetrack in 1934. The Type A had an output of 295 hp and 391 lb.-ft. of torque, and it was ...

It was, in fact, an Audi – or rather, an Auto Union – and it’s not what you think ... Shaped like a teardrop, the Type 52 features a Grand Prix-derived V16 engine sat behind the three seats of the ...

And you guessed it, he put the engine in the back. The Auto Union Type A had a mid-mounted, supercharged V16. In 1934. That’s pretty darn impressive. To be precise, it’s layout was: Radiator, driver, ...

What’s particularly bold about it is that it maintains the pioneering mid-engine layout of the ... was designed around the racing V16 drivetrain from the Auto Union Type 22.

and Porsche’s design studio came up with the rear-mid engine Auto Union Type A, or Porsche Type 22. The supercharged V16 race cars went on to a highly-successful run in GP seasons beginning in ...