W8 engine

A W8 engine is an eight-cylinder piston engine with four banks of two cylinders each, arranged in a W configuration.

In practice, the W8 engine is created from two narrow-angle (15 degree) VR4 engines mounted at an angle of 72 degrees from each other on a common crankshaft. Thus, the resulting four banks align to form a "W".

W8 engines are much less common than V8 engines, and the only W8 engine to reach production was manufactured by Volkswagen.

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