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1906 Anzani 3-cylinder motorcycle engine. One of the first W engines was the Anzani 3-cylinder, built in 1906, to be used in Anzani motorcycles.It is this W3 engine which also powered the 1909 Blériot XI, the first airplane to fly across the English Channel.
Rocchi's W12 plans dated back to a 1967 single-module W3 of 500 cc (31 cu in) as a prototype for a 3-litre W18 Ferrari engine of a planned 480 hp. [1] After his dismissal in 1980, Rocchi worked privately on an engine in a W12 configuration. Life W12 engine on display at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2009
W12 engines with three banks of four cylinders were used by several aircraft engines from 1917 until the 1930s. A three-bank design was also used for an unsuccessful W12 engine which was intended to compete in Formula One in 1990. W12 engines are less common than V12 engines as only a handful of automobile manufacturers use them.
The first application of the Volkswagen W12 was the 2001 Volkswagen W12, a mid-engined concept car which set the 24‑hour world endurance record in 2001 with a distance of 7,085.7 kilometres (4,402.8 mi) and an average speed of 295 km/h (183 mph). The first production car to use the W12 engine was the 2001 Audi A8 (D2). [4]
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 ...
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The Napier Lion is a 12-cylinder, petrol-fueled 'broad arrow' W12 configuration aircraft engine built by D. Napier & Son from 1917 until the 1930s. A number of advanced features made it the most powerful engine of its day and kept it in production long after other contemporary designs had been superseded.
As initially built, the V12 was rated at 150 kW (200 bhp) at 2,400 rpm and weighed approximately 340 kg (750 lb). Amongst the first production cars to use a V12 engine were the 1915 Packard Twin Six , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] the 1915 National V12 engine [ citation needed ] and the 1917 Weidely Pathfinder ; [ 12 ] all of which were built in the United States.