The V12 Engine

By: Karl Ludvigsen .

The V12 Engine gives an unprecedented and in-depth overview of all the V12-powered cars ever made and the magnificent engines that powered them. Its author claims to cover every V12-powered automobile from the smallest, the 1.1-litre Itala of 1926, to the largest, the 112-litre 'Quad-Al' of 1965.

Karl Ludvigsen takes the reader behind the scenes of the creation of the greatest twelves of all time: you're trackside at the epic battles of Grand Prix twelves in the 1930s and 1990s and you're in the boardrooms of BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz as they battle for V12 supremacy into the 21st century.
Lavishly illustrating The V12 Engine with rare photos and drawings from his Ludvigsen Library, the author explains how and why twelves evolved as they did and introduces such major movers as W.O. Bentley, Sir Henry Royce, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Sir William Lyons of Jaguar and, of course, Enzo Ferrari.

He brings to life their struggles to achieve their aims and quotes contemporary verdicts on their cars.
Ferrari's fabulous Enzo V12 brings the story bang up to date, along with the latest twelve-cylinder engines from Mercedes-Benz, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, and many others.

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