Why BRM’s H16 Engine Was Brilliant, Impossible, and Doomed BRM’s decision to build an H16 when everyone else ran simpler engines was either madness or vision. It delivered power, yes—but at the cost ...
There will be a lot of cool stuff at Retromobile, from the 16-foot-tall Berliet T100 desert truck you may have read about yesterday, to exhibits of De Dion-Bouton and Lamborghini and the possibly over ...
When it comes to engines, the future might be camless and the present seems to be totally turbocharged, but the past is full of some absolutely insane ideas. Volkswagen is famous for using strange but ...
Judging by Coventry Climax's bright and cheerful press release at the time, the 16 was supposed to be the answer to making major power out of a tiny engine. It wasn't meant to be. With Ferrari and BRM ...