The Bugatti W16 is an Engineering Nightmare

Bugatti W16 Engine Explained: Everything You Didn't Know In 1999, a man stood before an audience of engineers, executives, and journalists in Geneva, Switzerland, and said something that made the room go quiet. Not because it was inspiring. Because it was insane. He told them that Volkswagen Group would produce a road car with one thousand horsepower. A car that would reach four hundred kilometres per hour. A car that four people could sit in comfortably. A car that would satisfy every emissions and safety regulation in Europe. The engineers in the room did not applaud. Several of them, by their own later admission, assumed they had misheard him. They had not misheard him.