A V16 engine is a sixteen-cylinder piston engine where two banks of eight cylinders are arranged in a V configuration around a common crankshaft. V16 engines are less common than engines with fewer cylinders, such as V8 and V12 engines. Each bank of a V16 engine can be thought of as a straight-eight, a design that can be inherently balanced. Most V16 engines have a 45° bank angle.
1933 Marmon automotive engine.
Early 1930s Cadillac V16 engine
1932 Peerless Sixteen prototype
A 22.5-degree Maserati V4 16-cylinder engine
A V engine, sometimes called a Vee engine, is a common configuration for internal combustion engines. It consists of two cylinder banks—usually with the same number of cylinders in each bank—connected to a common crankshaft. These cylinder banks are arranged at an angle to each other, so that the banks form a "V" shape when viewed from the front of the engine.
V-twin motorcycle engine (circa 1910)
V6 car engine (circa 1990)
V-angle illustrated by the yellow lines
Argus As 10 inverted engine