W16 engine - wikipedia W16 engine This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2014 ) W16 8.0 L quad - turbocharged W16 used in the Bugatti Veyron Layout W16 A W16 engine is a sixteen cylinder piston internal combustion engine in a four - bank W configuration. The most common layout for W16 engines consists of two ' offset double - row ' banks of eight cylinders, coupled to a single crankshaft. Other layouts, though, have been used before as well. Volkswagen Group is the only automotive manufacturer currently producing W16 engines. These engines are most notably used in the Bugatti Veyron and Bugatti Chiron. French car maker Jimenez also used a custom 4.1 L W16 made from four Yamaha motorcycle engines in the 1995 Jimenez Novia, a one - off French supercar. The Volkswagen W16 engine was introduced with the mid-engined Bentley Hunaudieres concept car ( Bentley Motors Limited has been a Volkswagen Group holding since 1998 ). This W16 was later used in the Audi Rosemeyer concept car, and in the aforementioned Bugatti Veyron and Chiron. Volkswagen W16 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2009 Problems playing this file ? See media help. Volkswagen Group 's design is a stretched form of its W12 engine, which is itself based on technology from its VR6 engine. In the W16, each side is made up of two VR8 banks and the ' bank ' angle is increased to 90 degrees. The narrow angle of each set of cylinders allows just two overhead camshafts to drive each pair of banks, so just four are needed in total. For this reason, the engine is sometimes described as a WR16. The Volkswagen Group W16 engine as configured for the Bugatti Veyron EB16. 4 is a 16 cylinder 64 valve quad - turbocharged engine with four valves per cylinder. The engine is 71 centimetres ( 28 in ) long and weighs approximately 400 kilograms ( 882 lb ). Maximum power output is 736 kilowatts ( 1,001 PS ; 987 bhp ) at 6,000 revolutions per minute ( rpm ), with a maximum torque of 1,250 newton metres ( 922 lbf ⋅ ft ) ( 127.5 kgf m ) from 2,200 to 5,500 rpm. Some automotive press outlets have also reported that the W16 engine design has been considered for use in other Volkswagen Group products - specifically a Bentley. Cylinder firing order on W - 16 is as follows : 1 - 14 - 9 - 4 - 7 - 12 - 15 - 6 - 13 - 8 - 3 - 16 - 11 - 2 - 5 - 10. An early rotary valve W16 engine designed in 1916 by Frenchman Gaston Mougeotte Jimenez W16 The 4.1 L W16 used in the one - off 1995 Jimenez Novia had a very different design than the Volkswagen designed W16. The engine was made by combining four Yamaha FZR1000 1.0 liter 4 cylinder motorcycle engines and has 4 rows of cylinders with 4 cylinders in each row. It has a total of 80 valves ( 5 valves per cylinder ), and it uses two crankshafts, unlike the Volkswagen designed W16. The engine reportedly produces 417.6 kW ( 567 PS, 560 bhp ) at 10,000 RPM and 432 nm ( 318.6 lb ft of torque ). References Jump up ^ Photograph of the Bugatti W16 cylinder block ( jpg image ), retrieved 30 December 2009 Jump up ^ `` Bugatti Veyron ''. Wikipedia. 2018 - 03 - 01. ^ Jump up to : `` 1995 Jimenez Novia Concept SuperCars.net ''. Supercars.net. 2016 - 02 - 24. Retrieved 2018 - 03 - 06. Jump up ^ `` 2006 Bugatti Veyron W16 Engine ''. Bugatti press release. SuperCarNews.net. Retrieved 30 December 2009. Jump up ^ `` Bentley looking at Veyron W16 for motivation ''. Autocar. TheMotorReport.com.au. 18 October 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2009. Jump up ^ `` Deze supercar met W16 en 80 kleppen ken je nog niet ''. Autoblog.nl ( in Dutch ). Retrieved 2018 - 03 - 06. Jump up ^ Ion Kayak ( 2013 - 04 - 12 ), 1995 Jimenez Novia W16 80V, retrieved 2018 - 03 - 06 Reciprocating engines and configurations Type Bourke Orbital ( Sarich ) Piston Pistonless ( Wankel ) Radial Axial Rotary Split cycle Stelzer Tschudi Stroke cycles Two - stroke Four - stroke Five - stroke Six - stroke Two - and four - stroke Configurations & number of cylinders Single cylinder Single Two cylinders Split - single I2 V2 F2 Inline / straight I2 I3 I4 I5 I6 I7 I8 I9 I10 I12 I14 Flat F2 F4 F6 F8 F10 F12 F16 V / Vee V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V8 V10 V12 V14 V16 V18 V20 V24 W8 W12 W16 W18 Other inline U Square four VR Opposed X X24 Junkers Jumo 222 Components Valves Cylinder head porting Corliss Intake Exhaust Multi Overhead Piston Poppet Side Sleeve Slide Rotary valve Variable valve timing Camless Desmodromic Hydraulic tappet Fuel supplies Carburetor Gasoline direct injection Common rail Mechanisms Cam Camshaft Overhead camshaft Connecting rod Crank Crankshaft Scotch yoke Swashplate Rhombic drive Linkages Peaucellier -- Lipkin Watt 's ( parallel ) Other Hemi Recuperator Turbo - compounding Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=W16_engine&oldid=843211061 '' Categories : Piston engine configurations W engines Hidden categories : CS1 Dutch - language sources ( nl ) Articles needing additional references from August 2014 All articles needing additional references Articles with hAudio microformats Talk About Wikipedia Dansk Español Français 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Slovenčina Suomi Edit links This page was last edited on 27 May 2018, at 17 : 12. 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