The new 2024 Bugatti hybrid will have a V16 engine!

Bugatti is preparing to launch a new hypercar which, eight years after the Chiron, will “take over” and continue in the series of projects that began with the Veyron.

Presentation next June, when we discover The first road hybrid Bugatti. The much-hyped design, seen for years on Chiron development mules, is now ready to reveal itself to enthusiasts.

Bugatti, an engine with an unprecedented division

But there is something more unique that Bugatti will bring to the hypercar. Interests of split combustion engine, until now – on Veyron and Chiron – W16 which, in fact, represented the amalgamation of two V8 engines in an architecture with a longer V8 but larger transverse dimensions.

Bugatti’s new hybrid will be a V16, so with two banks instead of four. The first pictures of the V16 engine show the firing arrangement and the intake manifold. A detail that immediately catches the eye is the relative stiffness of the engine.

This is indicative of a smaller displacement compared to the 8 liter W16, which will share a turbo charge instead. The memory bar is set 1,500 horsepower Chiron W16, compared to which the new hybrid will have to prove it can do better. with the help of the electric part.

The house of Molsheim, in presenting the project, called it as “a new crossover that has a powerful V16 hybrid at its heart. Unparalleled in every detail, it is the true embodiment of Bugatti’s DNA, it was not created for the present or the future only but for eternity.”

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