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.

Essentially two narrow-angle V8s stuck together, the Veyron's 8.0-liter W16 had four turbochargers and put out 987 horsepower and 922 pound-feet of torque, enough to propel it to 60 mph in less ...

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 ...

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).

With four turbochargers stuffing a massive amount of air into the engine, even the base Chiron makes nearly 1,500 horsepower. Time marches on, though, and there’s no room in the future for a W16 ...

The Bugatti W16 engine, made by VW, is a marvel of engineering and will be replaced by a new combustion engine for the Chiron's hybrid successor.

The two-new roof-mounted engine air scoops are also a nod to the aforementioned Type 57 Roadster Grand Raid, as well as the first open-top Bugatti of the modern era: the Veyron 16.4 Grand 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 ...