16 Cylinder Car in History

Bugatti may just have the original engine with 16 cylinders are embedded in the body of the Veyron. But, Bugatti is not alone status as a producer who developed the 16-cylinder engine.
 This time it just might be that only the Bugatti Veyron has 16 cylinders and the engine still produced. But long before the Bugatti are already some manufacturers who are serious about playing in the 16-cylinder engine.
 The first car immediately to mind when talking of course is the 16-cylinder Bugatti Veyron. But do you know, the early prototype is eighteen-cylinder engine. When reached production Veyron, Bugatti throw a turbocharged four-cylinder but adds to get the output to 1,000 horsepower.
 Cylinders are arranged in a unique configuration W engine (basically made from two V8s) pioneered by Volkswagen. This allows entry into a much smaller space than a conventional design V. This machine is so big that by using 64 valves and ten radiators that keep the engine temperature.
 History of Cadillac sixteen-cylinder engine producing brings us back to 1930, when they made a Cadillac V-16. But six decades later, Cadillac brought the concept of formula with 16 cylinders in 2003.
 In contrast to the Veyron is a sixteen-cylinder engine usual. Cadillac brings the concept of merging 13.6 liter V16 engine, naturally aspirated with 32 valves and driving the rear wheels through a four-speed automatic transmission.
 When buying a Rolls-Royce, BMW tried to drive Rolls-Royce to the upper class with the 100EX. The result prototype V16 engine with 9.0-liter capacity. This engine comes from the Goldfish machine originally planned for the BMW 7 Series.
 In the end, BMW chose a more conventional V12 engine variants for the Phantom,displacing the traditional 6.75-liter engine.
 Before Cadillac, Rolls-Royce and Bugatti has modern idea with V16 engine, making Cizeta supercar manufacturer sixteen cylinders. An effort among dealers Ferrari, Lamborghini with a designer.
 The result was born the Cizeta V16T based on the original design for the Diablo. Sixteen-cylinder engine consists of a pair of transversely mounted V8s. Capable of producing 540 horsepower. Cizeta only make 11 units of this car in between the period 1991 and 1995. Each sold at a price of USD300 thousand.
 One of the earliest and most influential is that the 16-cylinder engine Auto Union owned. Hailed as the current Audi predecessor, Auto Union built a V16 engine for the Type C or famous racing cars before the advent of modern Formula One.
 Auto Union Type C to compete with Mercedes-Benz. Currently, only one unit remaining sixteen-cylinder engine variants of known existence. The car was treated Audi since 1979 after being bombed during the war.