Flat-plane crank V8 engines are typically associated with exotic sports cars, not luxury sedans. Yet Mercedes-AMG's engineers ...

Porsche Flat Six engine mounted and on display - Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR , via Wikimedia Commons The vehicles we drive are powered by many engine types (and electric motors, of course) — but perhaps two ...

A deep dive into why a .125-over flathead engine build is struggling to seal properly, breaking down potential machining, ...

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.

Hot rodders, moonshiners, and NASCAR owe a tremendous debt to this powerplant. Named for its distinctive flat cylinder head design, the flathead V8 went into production in 1932. It stayed on the ...

Dear Tom and Ray: I have a question about horizontally opposed, or "boxer," engines. To the best of my knowledge, only Porsche and Subaru use this type of engine design now. Subaru goes so far as to ...

Dick is one of the fortunate ones who can say, "I never went to work a day in my life." He always loved what he did for a living. Still sharply focused at age 83, he's been tinkering with things ...

The Flathead Ford motor is legendary in many ways, most of them good. But one downfall of this great motor has been cooling. Even in 1932, the first year of the Flathead V-8, Ford was fighting an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since 1963, an air-cooled (later water-cooled) six-cylinder boxer engine has been used in a car so iconic that both its engine ...