Question of the Week: What’s Your Favorite Twin-Engine Vehicular Creation?—WINNER’S UPDATE — Explained
WINNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT:
We’re back to announce the winner for our Question of the Week, where our victor will accept a $25 credit for a hat or T-shirt from the BaT Gear Store and the acclaim of their peers.
This week, we asked: What’s your favorite twin-engine vehicular creation?
You—our venerable BaT community—covered the wide array of twin-engined creations with your nominations, and ho boy, were they ever good. This week we’re exercising our Editorial Privilege and awarding the prize to a nomination that really stood out to us. That nomination came from BaT member @RJ80, who suggested the Fageol-Porsche:
If there were a patron saint of twin-engine automobiles, it would be Lou Fageol. During the late 1940s, Fageol began experimenting with twin-engine setups in his Offy-powered Twin Coach Special Indy car, and followed up with his twin-engined 356 in 1952. His swan song—the Fageol-Porsche—was a bulbous looking thing powered by two Porsche 1500 Super engines. Great pick and congratulations, RJ80! Be sure to check your email to claim the prize.
Now, let’s take a look at some other popular nominations from this week’s discussion thread:
“Chaparral 2J aka The Sucker Car. Big block Chevy engine running through a 3 speed automatic transmission and a 55hp Rockwell two stroke motor to run the sucker fans all packaged in a tidy box.”
The Chaparral 2J received plenty of love this week.
“Tommy Ivo’s dragster
https://www.tommyivo.com/imagesDragRace/10.%20FED1961%20%20Buick%20Showboats.jpg“
TV Tommy Ivo’s twin-Buick was certainly a record breaker, but man, his quad-mill beasts take the cake.
“This sweet Mini racecar!
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2002-mini-cooper-s-53/“
Twin-mill Minis were another popular nomination in this week’s discussion.
“The Hurst Hairy Olds 442. Four-wheel burnouts the length of the quarter mile.”
Images: Hot Rod
Talk about hellacious burnouts!
“Rupp Dart Kart for the win….
;^)”
“Citroen 2CV based Sahara should top the list for manufacturer-built vehicles.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-twin-engine-citroen-2cv-4×4-was-french-innovation-at-its-weirdest“
“Alfa Romeo 16C Bimotore”
“The 1970 Dodge Sweptline pickup with two six-cylinder Cummins turbo Diesel’s that manage to fit under the hood.
“I was always intrigued by the early 80’s twin engine VW Scirroco (360 hp) that almost made it into productions.
https://www.jcwhitney.com/culture/the-forgotten-twin-engine-vw-hatch/“
“2000 Mercedes-Benz A38 AMG it is a twin-engine prototype created by AMG, featuring two 1.9L inline-four engines. Only 4 were ever built.
In the late ’90s, Mercedes noticed their A38 Weeblesmobile couldn’t get back up so they asked their mad scientists at AGM what to do and they said “we can fix that lets add another engine in the back of this goofy hatchback” The A38 AMG had a front 1.9‑liter inline‑4 and in the the rear1.9‑liter inline‑4 (switchable on/off) it had AWD when…”
And to wrap up this week’s discussion, we’ll take to the skies with a comment from @PDXBryan:
“I was thinking at first of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning when I remembered the North American F-82. Created too late to serve in WWII it was essentially two P-51 Mustang fuselages connected by wing and aileron sections. An F-82G was the first American fighter to win a dogfight in the Korean war. To lots of us the only plane cooler than a Mustang is two of ‘em joined at the wing!
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/aircraft/north-american-p-82-twin-mustang.html“
That’s it for this week’s Question of the Week! Thanks to everyone who participated, and congratulations once again to our winner, RJ80. We’ll be back with a new question soon.
ORIGINAL POST:
Welcome to the BaT Question of the Week! For those unfamiliar, here are the rules: we ask an automotive-themed question, and the author of our favorite answer from the comments is awarded a $25 credit to the BaT Gear Store.
So this week, we’re asking: What’s your favorite twin-engine vehicular creation?
You know what they say: two engines are better than one, or something like that. In the early days, twin-engined creations like the (appropriately-named) 1907 Carter Two-Engine were often motivated by safety and reliability. Nowadays, the bimotore setup has become a trick-shot way of doubling horsepower and driven wheels, or simply testing the decision-making capabilities of your frontal lobe.
From 1960s racers to factory-sanctioned prototypes, there have been many twin-engine creations over the years—like Car and Driver‘s former twin-engine CRX that sold on BaT in 2025. Now we leave it to you:
What’s your favorite twin-engine vehicular creation?
Give us your answer in the comments, and leave a thumbs-up to any nominations that grab your attention. We’ll announce the winner on Monday.
“Lou Fageol’s 1953 Fageol-Porsche Twin Engine Competition Sports Car https://www.excellence-mag.com/issues/228/articles/fageol-s-twin-engined-porsches“
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