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, ...

The new Chevy Corvette ZR1X is pretty exciting for a lot of reasons. A twin-turbo hybrid powertrain delivering sub-two-second 0-60 times? Awesome! But the price... After taxes and titling, we're ...

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, ...

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 ...

Erik Sherman is an automotive journalist and motorcycle enthusiast. Although he has served and worked all over the world in different capacities, his passions belong to all things automotive. His love ...

The Holden is fitted with a gargantuan 1,172.8cc flat-four engine, representing one of the earliest experiments in high-cylinder motorcycle design. Talk about the sheer audacity of packaging four ...

There are many unique attributes that have made Subaru such a successful auto brand. One is the company's signature symmetrical all-wheel-drive system, which comes standard on the majority of Subaru ...