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  2. W18 engine - Wikipedia

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    A W18 engine is an eighteen-cylinder piston engine with three banks of six cylinders in a W configuration. The W18 layout is rarely used, with the only production examples being several aircraft during the 1920s and 1930s. Prototype W18 engines were produced for concept cars predecessors to the Bugatti Veyron in the late 1990s.

  3. Bugatti 18/3 Chiron - Wikipedia

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    The exposed inlet manifolds of the W18 engine. In order to construct a fully working prototype, Bugatti sourced the chassis and four-wheel drive system from the Lamborghini Diablo VT. The 18/3 Chiron uses the same Volkswagen-designed W18 engine that first debuted on the 1998 EB 118 and the 1999 EB 218 concept cars. As on the other two cars, the ...

  4. Isotta Fraschini Asso 750 - Wikipedia

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    The Isotta Fraschini Asso 750 was an Italian W 18 water-cooled aircraft engine of the 1930s. Produced by Isotta Fraschini the engine displaced just under 48 L (2,900 cu in) and produced up to 940 hp (700 kW).

  5. Mercedes-Benz W18 - Wikipedia

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    The Mercedes-Benz W18 was a six-cylinder automobile introduced as the Mercedes-Benz Typ 290 in 1933. It was a smaller-engined successor to the manufacturer’s Typ 350 / 370 Mannheim model. [ 1 ] In terms of the German auto-business of the 1930s it occupied a market position roughly equivalent to that filled by the Mercedes-Benz E-Class in the ...

  6. Hispano-Suiza 18R - Wikipedia

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    Hispano-Suiza 18Sbr W-18 engine on display in the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace in Le Bourget, France. Type W-18 high performance Aeor-engine National origin: France: Manufacturer Hispano-Suiza: First run 1929 [1] Major applications [1] Nieuport-Delage NiD 450; Nieuport-Delage NiD 650; Bernard H.V.120; Bernard V-4; Ford 14A; Developed from ...

  7. W engine - Wikipedia

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    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 needing ...

  8. Wright J65 - Wikipedia

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    Curtiss-Wright purchased a license for the Sapphire in 1950, with plans to have the production lines running in 1951. However a series of delays due to design changes by Curtiss-Wright, such as substituting the Sapphire's machined midsection solid forged diffuser frame with a fabricated one of welded nodular iron, [3] led to its service introduction slipping two years.

  9. Bugatti EB 218 - Wikipedia

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    The EB 218 W18 engine is composed of three banks of six cylinders with a sixty degree offset between each cylinder bank. In contrast, the W16 engine in Bugatti's (Under Volkswagen ownership) first production car, the 2005 Veyron EB 16.4 features two banks of 8 cylinders, it is basically two W8 engines .