The Matra Sports V12 engine is a family of automotive internal combustion engines built for Formula One (F1) and sports car endurance racing. Cars powered...

A V12 engine is a twelve-cylinder piston engine where two banks of six cylinders are arranged in a V configuration around a common crankshaft. V12 engines...

agreement with Simca, Matra asked Tyrrell to use their Matra Sports V12 engine rather than the Cosworth. Stewart got to test Matra's V12, but since a large...

with Simca, Matra asked Tyrrell to use their Matra Sports V12 engine rather than the Cosworth. Jackie Stewart got to test the Matra V12, but since a...

The Matra Murena is a mid-engined, rear wheel drive sports car that was produced from 1980 through 1983 by the French engineering group Matra. The factory...

Championship for Makes, Matra scored no points during the year. For 1968, Matra decided to use their 3.0-litre Matra Sports V12 engine. The MS630 only made...

powered Matra MS10 which Jackie Stewart drove to second place in the World Drivers' Championship. The major problems were with the Matra Sports V12 engine, which...

internal combustion engines, including the Simca Poissy engine that was produced from 1961 until 1991, and the Matra Sports V12 engine for Formula One (F1)...

The first rear mid-engined road car after WW II was the 1962 (Rene) Bonnet / Matra Djet, which used the 1108cc Renault Sierra engine, mated to the transaxle...

gradually improved their engine. In 1996, they changed from their traditional V12 engine to a smaller and lighter V10 engine. They preferred reliability...

the 1967 season, and persuaded Matra to build a car to take this engine. In the end, Matra Sports would run the V12-engined MS11 as a works entry, and Tyrrell...

designed by the engineer Georges Martin (V12 Matra Sports engine designer). In spite of its common name, the engine actually predates the Simca 1100 model...

programme, Matra had plans to compete in Formula 1 with a car powered by their own Matra Sports V12 engine. However, Ken Tyrrell, who had run Matras in his...

a mid-engine layout describes the placement of an automobile engine in front of the rear-wheel axles, but behind the front axle. The mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive...

chassis of the MS670C. Powering the car was the 3.0 L (180 cu in) Matra Sports V12 engine. The MS680 was used in the first pre-race tests and in the race...

Dutch Grand Prix. In 1969 he was placed in Ken Tyrrell's Matra team, whilst the works V12 engine was developed driving alongside Jackie Stewart, and finished...

The Matra-Simca MS650 is a Group 6 prototype race car introduced in 1969 for the International Championship for Makes. The MS650 replaced the previous...

and Gordini took part in 33, from 1952 to 1956. Matra Sports supplied V12 engines to Formula One Matra from 1968 to 1972, Shadow in 1975, and Ligier from...

producing mid-engined racing cars in the early 1960s with the Dino-V6-engine Formula One Ferrari 246 P and the sport prototype SP-series. The V12 sports car racers...

car with René Bonnet's Matra Djet, introduced in 1964. This layout has since become the standard for high-performance sports cars. When released, it...

Matra 640, bearing a resemblance to his Panhard CD designs but with the Matra 3-litre V12 engine. Not ready in time for the March test weekend, Matra...

power unit was the 420 Matra MS9 V12 3-liter, built-in 1968 on the initiative of the French government and already mounted on the Matra MS630. After the creation...

place in the Matra International team was taken by F1 debutant Johnny Servoz-Gavin. Jean-Pierre Beltoise appeared with the new Matra V12 engine in the back...

Championship. Matra had split with Ken Tyrrell and entered the season under French licence. The MS120 was powered by Matra's own V12 engine. Tyrrell entered...

though, as the F1-based engine had not lasted 24 hours in testing and would surely spoil their otherwise perfect record. In 1973, Matra which had previously...

Widened by 100mm, with an improved and lightened aerodynamic chassis, the V12 engine was also uprated to produce 580 bhp. The new version, the 512M (modificato)...

the Spanish GP until the almost inevitable engine breakage on lap 56, 40 seconds ahead of Stewart's Matra. At Monaco Amon ran second to Stewart for the...

powerful hybrid electric road car engines for the Aston Martin Valkyrie. Their naturally-aspirated 6.5-litre V12 engine develops 1,000 hp (746 kW; 1,014 PS)...

S was a sports prototype car produced by Italian manufacturer Ferrari from 1969 to 1970. As it name suggests, the car had a 5.0L V12 engine. A total...

Lamborghini used V12 engines (successfully in the former's case), Carlo Chiti's Motori Moderni unsuccessfully tried to revive flat-12 engines, badged as Subarus...