Most normal cars with less than eight cylinders nowadays use inline engines, but some also use boxer engines. What's the ...

Sometimes, the terms boxer engine and flat engine are used interchangeably, even though the two are not the same. What's the difference? Which one is better?

Nathaniel is an experienced automotive writer with more than 10 years of automotive writing under his belt. From model reviews to industry politics to new innovations and development, he covers a wide ...

Runge Cars of Minnesota has released its latest creation, an air-cooled 5.3-liter flat-eight engine. Destined to power a lightweight, mid-engined supercar called the Runge R3, it'll also fit in the ...

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, ...

Car companies used to have an obsession with the number 12, especially in Formula 1. The siren song of a duodecimal engine has ensnared many an automaker, resulting in shrieking double sixes with ...

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 air-cooled VW Beetle is a legend for so many reasons. One of the main ones being how many were built and how long they ...

It was considered a major breakthrough when Ford launched its Flathead V8 engine in 1932. Up until that point, V8 engines were expensive and limited to just luxury cars, but Henry Ford wanted one that ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

Subaru has long raced a BRZ-bodied car in the GT300 class of Japan's Super GT championship, a program that is set to continue into 2026. In the past, the car was powered by a four-cylinder engine like ...