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.

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).

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.” ...

Before the W16 meets its maker, Winkelmann made it clear the sixteen-cylinder engine would receive more suck-squeeze-bang-blow. "We are far out at Bugatti, far from being compared, but I think it ...

Bugatti mid-August unveiled the last car it will ever build with its iconic 8.0-litre quad-turbocharged 16-cylinder engine, the W16. The W16 Mistral car is based on the Chiron Super Sport, but in ...

In terms of power, the car is powered by the Chiron’s familiar 8.0-liter quad-turbocharged W16 engine, although it is the same as it is in the flagship Super Sport.

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 ...