Motorcycle history is littered with landmark V-configuration engines, plus some astounding alternatives packing from two to eight cylinders. Here are some of our favourites...

Massively inclined engine, five valves per cylinder and almost vertical intakes. So is Yamaha’s FZ750 something truly special?

Bugatti’s official story is that the seed of the Veyron was planted in 1997. VW Group boss Ferdinand Piëch and his powertrain chief Karl-Heinz Neumann were on a Japanese train brewing up engine ideas.

You hear it long before you see it: the tranquil of this bucolic Hampshire village has been shattered by some hooligan flouting its urban speed limit. Heads turn. The demonic roar and ring-a-ding-ding

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Voge’s high-spec parallel-twin is decent, but has room for improvement