Inside the V12

Twelve cylinders is an inefficient way to make power, and that inefficiency is entirely the point. It is an engine built for the way it delivers, not for the number at the end.

The craftsmanship shows up in the parts nobody photographs: the intake runners, the balance of the crank, the decision to keep a naturally aspirated response when everything else moved on.

Drive one for an afternoon and the argument settles itself somewhere above four thousand revolutions.