V/16

some of the most luxurious automobiles and racing cars as well were powered by engines with 16 cylinders. they are very smooth running engines on the whole and with 16 cylinders you can always top your neighbors who only have 8 or less in their car. our first one is a 1933 Marmon V/16. Marmon was always an advanced automobile from the very beginning. it's progenitor Howard Marmon believed in using as much light alloy{aluminum}in his cars as possible. thus this engine is made greatly of aluminum and puts out 200hp which was a lot in 1933. next is the famous Cadillac V/16 in it's first iteration with overhead valves. Cadillac also made one with L-head valve configuration. they came out slightly before Marmon in 1931 from whence this engine comes. third we have the rear mounted Auto-Union type C V/16 in one of the Auto-Union racing machines of the late 1930's. a sophisticated, light weight and quite powerful engine capable of around 500hp. fourth is a 1931 effort by the late great Harry Miller in a racing car of the era. and last the Bugatti U/16 which is actually two straight eights on a single crankcase. this engine has two crankshafts which are geared together to make a single engine.