A V16 is an engine configuration featuring two banks of eight cylinders sharing a single crankshaft. Known for exceptional smoothness due to overlapping power strokes, it is also incredibly long, heavy, and complex. They are extremely rare in production cars, mostly found in historic luxury vehicles or highly specialized hypercars.
Heard on the job
The sheer length of the crankshaft on a V16 makes harmonic balancers absolutely critical.