The W-12 engine is dead at Bentley Bentley built the W-12 in some form for the last two decades The 12-cylinder has been replaced by a plug-in hybrid V-8 powertrain Bentley on Tuesday celebrated the ...

Bentley's legendary W12 engine is an evolution of the W12 originally developed by VW for use in Volkswagen and Audi vehicles.

Pioneering new engine technologies has always been an integral part of Bentley's DNA. The second car ever made by the British marque, introduced a year after the end of World War I, featured a ...

Older Bentley models are widely renowned for their coach-built nature and hand-assembled in-house engines in Crewe, U.K. Since VW bought Bentley in 1998, the company has slowly moved away from ...