Audi is bringing back a 1930s speedster straight out of your retro-futuristic dreams as a modern V16 supercar. Will it make ...
The automaker recreated the 1935 Auto Union Lucca, which became the world's fastest car after hitting more than 200 mph on an ...
BMW made engines long before it started building motorcycles and cars. And with more than a century of experience of building great engines, the company has created some spectacular ones over the ...
The year is 1935. Audi’s predecessor, Auto Union, is locked in civil war with Mercedes to build the fastest road-going cars on Earth. Auto Union’s latest contender is essentially the current grand ...
Bugatti is known for going all in when it begins a project. The Tourbillon hypercar was no exception with its incredible ... well, everything. Bugatti went so far as to do away with its iconic ...
This is the Lucca, it’s brand-spanking new, and it doesn’t wander aimlessly about with a piffling V10 in the back. This thing ...
The Audi Lucca V16 revival brings back a forgotten 1935 Auto Union speed machine with a fire-breathing supercharged 6.0-litre ...
The story of this unusual engine type, through the lens of four brands that used it over the years.
A couple of months ago, Bugatti revealed to the world that it’s dropping its legendary W16, in favor of an entirely new V16. However, the configuration—switching from a “W” to a “V”—isn’t the only ...
No, it’s not surprising that a multi-million-dollar hypercar should have a great exhaust note. But, in this era of big turbos and electrification, high-performance cars don’t quite sound like they ...
Bugatti made tidal waves in 2000 when it presented the sixteen-cylinder Veyron, the marvelous luxo-missile that topped 250 mph (400 kph). As forerunner as it was, Bugatti arrived a bit late at the ...
Bugatti has long been synonymous with excess, the kind of engineering brilliance that ignores practical constraints in favor of absolute mechanical dominance. But even by Bugatti standards, the new ...