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What is the best engine configuration?
My default answer is that there is no such thing. Different configurations excel at different things so the answer depends on your goals, needs, application, budget, space and various other factors. In other words, there is no best engine configuration in the absolute sense. But if I was forced to choose a configuration that is the best, the most representative configuration of reciprocating piston greatness, an ambassador of internal combustion glory then it would HAVE to be the V12 because there is no other engine configuration that has a comparable blend of power, balance, smoothness, sound and history as the V12.
The first V12 engine was built in 1904. 120 years ago, by Putney Motor Works in London for use in racing boats. It was called the "Craig-Dörwald" engine. The first famous V12 powered car was called “Toodles V”, it was the brainchild of Louis Cotaalen, the chief engineer of the Sunbeam Motor Company. It was a 9 liter 60 degree v 12 that was rated at 200 horsepower ar 2400 rpm and weighed 340kg. Toodles V broke multiple speed records in 1913 and 1914.
From the world of racing and one-off custom builds the V12 proceeded into the world of luxury. Some of the first production cars to have a V12 came from the United States, a country that is most certainly not associated with V12s today. But back in 1915 US-made cars like the Packard Twin Six, The National and the Weidely were pioneering a new era for high-end cars.
The power and smoothness of the V12 proved to be contagious and the configuration spread like wildfire. Throughout the roaring 20s and even the 1930s the V12 became the engine of choice for the flagship models of pretty much all the relevant manufacturers of the day. Fiat, Daimler, Maybach Horch, Hispano-Suiza, Tatra, Rolls-Royce, Cadillac and Lincoln to name but a few. In an age before insulating engine mounts and modern performance dynamics, the V12 ensured silky-smoothness and increased power with an increased number of cylinders.
The 1930 soon spiraled into a crisis which culminated in the 2nd world war. This time of immense destruction and tragedy for humanity was also a time of massively accelerated evolution of engineering and technology. This age gave us some of the most iconic piston engines in history. Rolls Royce Merlin, Mikulin AM-38, Daimler-Benz DB-600, Allison V-1710 and Junkers Jumos were among the most iconic ones. They powered unforgettable fighter aircraft such as the Spitfire, the P-51 Mustang or the Messershcmidt BF 109.
After the war the car industry started recovering. And a man named Enzo Ferrari remembered the smoothness and power of pre-war V12 engines. So in 1947 him and Gioacchino Colombo made the Ferrari Colombo V12 engine. The engine that would put Ferrari on the map and build the foundations for everything that was to come. The Colombo powered many iconic Ferraris well into the 80s.
But a man named Lamborghini thought that Ferrari V12 engines sucked so he commissioned a Ferrari engineer, Giotto Bizarrini, to make him a new V12 for his newly established racing car brand….a bit of a weird logic, but it lead to incredible results. Introduced in 1963 the Bizarrini V12 would power flagship Lamborghinis like the Countach, Diablo and Murcielago for half a century.
V12 didn’t just power expensive flagship supercars. They were also present at the heart of the world’s highest class of racing, Formula 1. Legendary V12 engines built by Honda, Ferrari, Maserati, BRM and Matra powered several iconic Formula One race cars throughout the 60s and the 70s. Honda’s V12 was the last V12 to win at Formula 1 in 1991 with The Mclaren MP4. 3.5 liters, 60 degrees V12, 14.000 RPM, Six Speed Manual. Ayrton Senna behind the wheel.
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