An automotive publication entitled “Auto Notizie”, published by the Cizeta Moroder Company of Italy, in May 1989. That publication describes a V-16 engine with two independent crankshafts arranged end-to-end. The adjacent ends of the crankshafts are connected at their ends to a drive gear, and engine crankshaft torque is delivered through an idler to a bevel gear which serves as a torque input shaft for a multiple ratio transmission having an axis disposed perpendicularly with respect to the crankshaft axis.
