Jay Leno takes the wheel of Bugatti's 1,578-hp Mistral, marking the end of the road for the brand's legendary W16 engine.

New cars typically have a handful of miles on them when they reach the dealership, like from driving off the factory lot onto ...

You don't get a W16 of course, but you do get a cute little representation of the unutterably fantastic Centodieci ...

Jay Leno drives the Bugatti Mistral, the French firm's way of saying goodbye to the gargantuan quad-turbocharged W16 engine ...

The W16 Mistral makes up for lost time as a two-seat roadster with a removable roof panel and a rakish silhouette, with its creation driven by "enormous demand" from Bugatti's customers.

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Bugatti will only build 99 examples of the W16 Mistral—each priced at 5 million euros, or $5 million—and all of them have already been sold out. Deliveries are set to start next year.

As a refresher, the Mistral is the final Bugatti road car to use the incredible quad-turbo 8.0-liter W16 engine, alongside the track-only Bolide, and it's essentially a roofless Chiron with unique ...

In 2005, Bugatti shocked the world with the Veyron’s quad-turbo W16 engine. It was unlike anything anyone had seen in a production car before and gave the Veyron 1,001 PS (987 horsepower).

A W16 design ended up on the cutting room floor because Mate Rimac wanted a naturally aspirated engine. The Tourbillon could go down as the most-produced V16 in all of history.

The Bugatti W16 engine, made by VW, is a marvel of engineering and will be replaced by a new combustion engine for the Chiron's hybrid successor.

Winkelmann, in an interview with CarAdvice.au, said the Chiron and the Divo are the last blasts for the W16 engine. That both makes perfect sense and doesn't make any sense at all, all at once.