Re: New Bugattiwagen racecar?

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

Who knows, but I just wanted to throw in that R&T recently said that VW was
"considering building an 18-cylinder engine out of 3 VR6 blocks" and that it
would be the highest cylinder count engine ever to go into production : ) OK,
can I say that a little more clearly? How about, it would have more cylinders
than any other engine that ever went into production.... there we go. I can
speak English, really.
So maybe they got it from the same source, but more than one mag said it...
    -Josiah


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Jason wrote:

> At 12:20 PM 9/24/98 , Aaron D. Patton wrote:
> >That's not a lot of horsepower for 26 litres worth of displacement and who
> >knows how much weight.  You'd be better off attaching a pair of turbos to a
> >W-12 and running nitro-methane.
> >Aaron
>
> You're right- but didn't VW say that the W12 put out something like 500hp?
> Hmmm, adding 6 more cylinders and 2.8l of displacement, not to mention the
> added weight and complexity is sure as hell not worth 100hp... they should
> take the W12 and put a light pressure turbo on it... 6psi would probable do
> the trick, right?
>
> I would put money on it that someone was misinformed- I doubt if VW ever
> even considered an 18-cylinder... seems just stoopid to me... I'm sure
> someone just exaggerated the story, and the real consideration was the W12,
> especially cause VW now has nothing to do with it, as BMW will continue
> supplying engines for Rolls...
>
>         My 0.02
>                 Jason
>                 87 16v
>                 Now at 52,000 mi.
>
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