For decades, the massively popular Volkswagen Type-1 Beetle and the Type-2 VW Microbus or Transporter were powered by a unique air-cooled boxer engine. The Volkswagen air-cooled engine is ...

Powering the Beetle and a handful of other early VW autos was an equally iconic air-cooled horizontally-opposed 4-cylinder engine. The original VW engine, which was in production for decades ...

The most well-known were the Porsche flat six, VW flat four, Corvair, and numerous motorcycle engines ... the swan song of Porsche’s air-cooled racing origins, standing as one of the last ...

Introduced in 1957 as a counterpart to the West German VW Beetle, the East German Trabant was powered by a 600cc 2-cylinder air-cooled 2-stroke engine. While it only had 18 horsepower and produced ...

Though not the only car to ever feature an air-cooled engine, looking at you, VW Beetle, it is arguably the most famous.