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The first production car to use the W12 engine was the 2001 Audi A8 (D2). [4] Other cars to use the W12 engine are the 2005-present Bentley Continental Flying Spur, [5] [6] 2015–present, 2004-2011 Volkswagen Phaeton W12 [7] and the 2005-2010 Volkswagen Touareg W12.
[1] [4] The most common W-type engine is the 4-bank type, with the Volkswagen Group experimenting with the Passat W8 and it’s 4.0 liter, 4-bank W8 engine and later implementing the concept with their Bentley division, creating a 6.0 liter W12 in both naturally aspirated and turbocharged variants. Due to the pre-existing VR-type engine only ...
A W12 engine is a twelve-cylinder piston engine where either three banks of four cylinders, or four banks of three cylinders are arranged in a W configuration around a common crankshaft. W12 engines with three banks of four cylinders were used by several aircraft engines from 1917 until the 1930s.
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It was also the first German 12-cylinder post-war automobile engine, predating Mercedes-Benz's M120 by four years and VAG's W12 by fourteen. The BMW S70/2 engine, largely unrelated to the M70 and S70B56 engines, is a naturally-aspirated, DOHC , V12 petrol engine, which powered the 1993 to 1998 McLaren F1 .
In 1997, at the Tokyo Motor Show, Volkswagen debuted their first sports car concept, a bright yellow W12 Syncro (also known as the W12 Syncro Coupé) with a 5.6-litre W12 engine producing 309 kW (420 PS; 414 bhp) with Syncro four-wheel drive. This, and the W12 concepts after it, were all designed by the Italdesign firm in Italy. The W12 Syncro ...
Each bank of a V12 engine essentially functions as a straight-six engine, which by itself has perfect primary and secondary engine balance.A four-stroke V12 engine has even firing order at V-angles of 60, 120, or 180 degrees [1] [unreliable source] Many V12 engines use a V-angle of 60 degrees between the two banks of cylinders. [2]
Investigations of those accidents and later examinations of other airplanes showed a collection of common problems. Deteriorated wiring, corrosion , improper wire installation and repairs, and contamination of wire bundles with metal shavings, dust , and fluids (which would provide fuel for fire) were common conditions in representative ...