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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.
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 ...
W18 engine; F. Farman 12We; H. Hispano-Suiza 18R; I. Isotta Fraschini Asso 750; L. Lorraine 12E Courlis; N. Napier Lion; V. Volkswagen Group W-12 engine This page was ...
The Mercedes D.VI was an eighteen-cylinder, liquid-cooled W-18 type aircraft engine built by Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) and used on a small number of German aircraft during World War I. It was 44,3 liter W 18 cylinder aeroengine with 517 hp/380 kW power at 1400 rpm. The engine weighed 1,636 lb (742 kg). [1] [2]
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 ...
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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 ...