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 ...

The W-12 engine is dead at Bentley Bentley built the W-12 in some form for the last two decades The 12-cylinder has been replaced by a plug-in hybrid V-8 powertrain Bentley on Tuesday celebrated the ...

In the 1990s, performance was measured by engine displacement and the number of cylinders, and both BMW and Mercedes-Benz were eager to push the limits of automotive engineering. At the time, BMW ...