Why Did Bentley Stop Making Its Iconic W12 Engine?
Why Did Bentley Stop Making Its Iconic W12 Engine? The last of theW12 Bentley engines, shown above, was produced on June 01, 2025. Bentley’s turbocharged W12 engine, introduced in 2003, became the most successful modern 12-cylinder engine, with more than 100,000 produced. The W12 engine was a solution to the problem of retaining the smoothness of a 12-cylinder engine without the excessively large amount of space that a V12 engine typically took up under the hood....