Rolls-Royce (and Packard) built almost 150,000 27-liter Merlin V-12 engines during World War II. Many of them survived, yet none were supposed to end up in road cars. But then came a bunch of aero ...

A stylish and entirely British project, every single one of the 12 Aeroboat super-yachts destined for production will be powered by a reconditioned, fuel-injected Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 engine ...

It is the 27L tank version of the aircraft-ready Merlin V12, but still pounds out 650 hp and 1,500 lb-ft. Needless to say, in the lightweight SD1, the Meteor V12 barely sweats at 160 mph. Trending ...

With a 27-liter (1,650 cu-in), V-12 piston engine, the Merlin-powered Aeroboat is sure to make the biggest splash, as it were—unless someone turns up in an actual Spitfire. The Aeroboat's Merlin ...

A model of the proposed Aeroboat, along with an actual Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 engine will be on display at the Salute to Style party at The Hurlingham Club between 16-19 July. If you like what you ...

Hearing two Rolls-Royce Merlin 25 V-12 engines come to life on a de Havilland Mosquito is something I’ll never forget. At East Kirkby, I watched as the ground crew prepped the legendary wooden ...

Maybe even then, despite an over-fertile imagination, I couldn’t conceive of someone popping a 27-litre V12 WWII aero engine in a road car and making it work. What a sublimely, extravagantly ...

The 27-liter V12 Rolls-Royce Merlin engine is named after the “bird of prey” rather than the magician, but stand up close to one of these things when it hums along and you’ll be hard pressed ...

It displaces a ridiculous 27 liters, makes around 600 horsepower, and twists up to 1,450 pound-feet of torque, all using an engine design that somewhat resembled the famous Rolls-Royce Merlin engine.