The 6.75-liter V8 engine in the Bentley Mulsanne has been in production in some form since 1959, but word has it that it will be phased out together with the model it propels, to be replaced by a V12.
Bentley took 24 of the 32 valves used by the race-winning Speed 8’s 4.0-liter, twin-turbocharged V8, then bisected and turned them into 48 “artifacts”, as the company calls them. The half ...