The plastic cover of a Subaru Boxer engine showing the Subaru constellation logo - Topuria Design/Shutterstock Flat engines are horizontally-opposed piston engines, and this group includes Boxer ...

Subaru's understated flat-four boasts quite an impressive reliability streak.

In 1968, Subaru introduced the diminutive 360 as an inexpensive economy car: "Cheap and Ugly" (Subaru's words, not mine). Only seven years later, the brand made a big move with the launch of its 4WD ...

Coming from a big Italian family, Anthony relishes in being the black sheep as the only adrenaline junkie. Even though he has gone bungee-jumping, rock-climbing, cliff diving, fought in mixed martial ...

Back in the 1960s, Subaru brought the boxer engine closer to mass market buyers, after Porsche put it into its very first sports cars. By this time, the automotive world existed mostly on inline and V ...

Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...

While the '60s may have had Beetle-mania, the 2000s had diesel-mania. The world had come a long way since the concept of diesels being best suited to tractors and wagons that measured their zero to 60 ...

If an engine has four cylinders, chances are they’re arranged in-line—unless that engine was made by Subaru, of course. A boxer-four is second only to all-wheel drive as a Subaru calling card. But the ...

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Believed to launch within the next six months for the 2025 model year, the 992.2 will – allegedly – improve the breed with two hybrid setups and one brand-new engine. Emphasis on allegedly because ...

Flat engines are horizontally-opposed piston engines, and this group includes Boxer engines, but not opposed-piston engines like the Cummins 14.3L Advanced Combat Engine (ACE) designed to power tanks.