Volkswagen W12

The Volkswagen W12 is a series of concept cars created by Volkswagen Passenger Cars from 1997 to 2001, a mid-engined supercar project that Giorgetto Giugiaro and his Italdesign team designed at the request of Ferdinand Piech, with a W12 engine and the option of Syncro all-wheel drive. Five prototypes were built: the yellow all-wheel-drive W12 Syncro Coupé of 1997, the red rear-wheel-drive W12 Roadster of 1998, two examples of the 600 PS W12 Nardò Coupé, and an orange Nardò Record Car. The Syncro and Roadster used a 5.6 litre W12 making 420 PS, and the Nardò was rated at 600 PS with a top speed of 357 km/h. On 23 February 2002 a W12 coupe took the 24 hour world record over the Nardò Ring, covering 7,740.576 km at an average of 322.891 km/h.