In the performance world, there are only three cars left with a turbocharged flat-four engine. They are the Subaru WRX, Porsche Boxster, and its hard-topped sibling, the Cayman. According to Porsche, ...

In Porsche’s long and storied history, few mechanical creations have reached the mythical status of the four-cam flat-four engine. Born in the crucible of motorsport in the early 1950s, it was a ...

The flat-eight engine, also known as an eight-cylinder boxer or horizontally opposed engine, is a rare configuration that was never used on a production car, although it was relatively successful in ...

The 914/4, as the original is technically called, was introduced with a workmanlike Volkswagen (not Porsche) flat-four engine, and it was popular, too, with more than 115,600 examples produced from ...

Although Subaru didn't invent flat engines, and isn't the only automaker still using them, those motors have become a defining characteristic of the brand. (The same can be said for all-wheel drive, ...