Porsche Filed a Patent for an 18-Cylinder Engine with 3 Turbos and a True 'W' Configuration

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While most car manufacturers are thinking of electric, Porsche continues to explore the limits of thermal power. According to Road & Track, the German brand has just filed a patent for a W18 engine with three turbochargers. It is a delusional mechanical architecture composed of three rows of six cylinders. This has got the purists excited. A real mechanical W imagined by Porsche So far, the W engines, like the Bentley W12 or the Bugatti W16, wer…

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While most manufacturers rely on forced-on electrification, Porsche has recently revised its objectives and does not intend to stop the thermal engine in the medium and long term. Stuttgart has just filed a patent for a brand new thermal motor with an amazing design: an 18-cylinder W engine, called "space-optimized engine". A real W engine, not a single double V Unlike the "W" blocks that we already know, like the Bugatti Chiron, which actually …