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.

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

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

Recent results and difficulty in finding performance from the W16 has raised question marks from George Russell on potential ...

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

George Russell narrowly missed out on pole position in Hungary after Mercedes reverted to pre-Imola rear suspension spec ...

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 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.