Hear the Sounds of the Bugatti Tourbillon’s Furious V-16 Engine

Mate Rimac shared a video of the upcoming Bugatti Tourbillon on Instagram, and the sound of the brand’s new V-16 is something to behold.

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The Tourbillon marks a new era for Bugatti, who partnered with Rimac in 2021. The current iteration of the brand, which has given us the Veyron, Chiron, and Divo, has built its tremendous performance around an 8.0-liter, quad-turbo, W-16 powerplant, the design of which was conceptually based on Volkswagen’s narrow-angle VR6 engine layouts.

This new powerplant severs those VW group ties and the W-16 layout in favor of a naturally aspirated 8.3-liter V-16 engineered with help from Cosworth. The engine has an impressive 1,000hp output on the way to its 9,000rpm redline. That’s 120 hp per liter. A pair of electric motors on the front axle and one on the rear bring the total output to 1,800 hp, with a curb weight of just under 4,400 pounds.

Unfortunately, while the engine sounds amazing, the video clip is short, leaving us wanting more. We’re still able to get a nice sample of the high-revving V-16 as it throws a few revs our way and takes off. The engine sounds smooth and just a bit angry, nowhere near as rowdy as a 1000-hp pushrod V-8 would need to be to deliver that kind of performance. This thing seems to have a split personality as it idles like a proper French grand tourer but growls with authority as it rockets away. Cheers to our new favorite French/Croatian powertrain combo.

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