We wholeheartedly agreed with the Beach Boys back when they sang "She's real fine, my 409," but today we're singing a slightly different tune. With apologies to the guys in the band, we're singing ...

Last week, the car internet was lit ablaze by a patent from Porsche that depicted a design for a W-shaped, turbocharged, 18-cylinder engine. The patent was cool for a lot of reasons: It features a ...

Internal combustion engine development is far from stagnant these days, in spite of the advances in electric powertrains in recent decades—and this patent from Porsche concerning a W-style cylinder ...

Ever wonder what kind of power can be coaxed from a garden-variety street 360 short-block? You know, a basic bottom end, nicely built, with popular flat-top pistons at zero deck. We have always ...

Bugatti’s famed 16-cylinder is the first W-configuration engine used in a passenger vehicle. It’s also been a fixture of the two hypercars, and their many variants, that the company has built since it ...

Bentley said farewell to their iconic W12 engine in July of 2024, closing a storied chapter in modern grand touring after a two-decade run. Yet just as one story ends, another quietly begins, as ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

In 1997, before Volkswagen bought the rights to the then-defunct Bugatti brand name, longtime chairman Ferdinand Piëch came up with the idea for an engine that would revolutionize the performance car ...

To celebrate the epic 20-year run of this 12-cylinder mill, Bentley organized a Poker Run Rally in the City of Angels. The rally format gets its name from the fact that every participant receives a ...