New cars typically have a handful of miles on them when they reach the dealership, like from driving off the factory lot onto ...

Jay Leno drives the Bugatti Mistral, the French firm's way of saying goodbye to the gargantuan quad-turbocharged W16 engine ...

Jay Leno takes the wheel of Bugatti's 1,578-hp Mistral, marking the end of the road for the brand's legendary W16 engine.

The W16 Mistral has a 1,600-horsepower engine. (Bugatti) Bugatti plans to attempt to break a 254.04 mph record for open-top cars previously set by its predecessor, the Veyron Super Sport Vitesse.

The W16 Mistral makes up for lost time as a two-seat roadster with a removable roof panel and a rakish silhouette, with its creation driven by "enormous demand" from Bugatti's customers.

Bumping into Helmut Marko at the hotel in Spa-Francorchamps, Kimi Antonelli apparently revealed that he had “no confidence” ...

A W16 design ended up on the cutting room floor because Mate Rimac wanted a naturally aspirated engine. The Tourbillon could go down as the most-produced V16 in all of history.

The W16 Mistral has the same 1,578 horsepower (1,600 PS) engine as the earlier Chiron Super Sport 300+, and is the maximum output that has been achieved with the W16 Bugatti engine.

Bugatti will only build 99 examples of the W16 Mistral—each priced at 5 million euros, or $5 million—and all of them have already been sold out. Deliveries are set to start next year.

In 2005, Bugatti shocked the world with the Veyron’s quad-turbo W16 engine. It was unlike anything anyone had seen in a production car before and gave the Veyron 1,001 PS (987 horsepower).

Another difference between W16 and V16 engines is that the W is no longer in production while the V lives on. In recent years automakers other than Bugatti, both would-be and established, have ...

The Chiron Super Sport’s W16 engine—which is currently the only 16-cylinder powertrain in a car—does the work of moving this automotive cathedral on wheels from place to place.