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.

Bugatti sent of the W16 with a bang. Leno gets behind the wheel of the 1,600-horsepower legend, and takes us with him.

Bugatti is bidding adieu to its W16 engine in style. The French marque unveiled its latest hypercar on Friday—the Mistral roadster. The open-top speed machine is based on the Chiron and will be ...

First introduced in concept form in 2000, Bugatti's W16 engine entered production in the Veyron hypercar in 2005, changing the landscape of performance as we know it forever. Essentially two ...

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).

The 8.0-liter W16 engine is simply gargantuan and it’s a miracle of design and engineering that it even fits into the current Chiron. While the new engine could technically still be a W16, its ...

But proving it was possible to construct an engine that could deliver this was incredibly cool. There was a real sense of fulfillment when the W16 was finally up and running.” ...

Winkelmann, in an interview with CarAdvice.au, said the Chiron and the Divo are the last blasts for the W16 engine. That both makes perfect sense and doesn't make any sense at all, all at once.

Since then, the engine has been retuned multiple times, with its most recent new appearance being in the track-focused 1500-horsepower Divo. But according to Bugatti's CEO, the W16 isn't long for ...

Bugatti’s boss might be protective of the W16 engine in the brand’s hypercars but in the case of a potential second model, he appeared open to electrification in a recent interview.