When talking about Rolls-Royce engines, we usually think about the company's old inline-six and V8 automobile units and the Merlin V12 aero powerplant. The latter is quite iconic, having powered ...

The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine played a pivotal point in World War II. It was in the Mustang and Spitfire aircrafts and allowed them to fly at higher altitudes.

Without question, the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine is one of the greatest piston pushers ever made. The 27-liter V12 was built in the 1930s and 1940s and would eventually go on to power allied ...

Created by Rolls-Royce in the early 1930s, the Merlin engine was an evolution of an earlier Rolls-Royce project called the PV12 --PV meaning private venture and 12 being the number of cylinders ...

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This fire-breathing 27-liter 1,800-horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engine famously powered the Spitfire, Hurricane, Mustang, Lancaster and Mosquito WW2 aircraft. It's been mounted on a trailer ...

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.

The engine in the Supermarine Spitfire was a Rolls-Royce Merlin that eventually went into America's P-51 Mustang, as well. It had a lot of power.