Air-cooled engines were once commonplace in the auto and moto industries. The most well-known were the Porsche flat six, VW flat four, Corvair, and numerous motorcycle engines, from BMW to ...

The golden era of automotive engineering gave birth to some truly iconic engines, many of which continue to inspire tuners ...

Celebrating an anniversary of its own, the Porsche 911 Turbo was of primary focus at this year’s show. First introduced in 1974 with a 3.0-liter turbocharged air-cooled engine, the sports car ...

Every generation has cars that once felt futuristic, only to look shockingly old a few decades later. The eight models below ...

Does anyone else remember when Jeremy Clarkson dropped a piano on top of an old air-cooled Porsche 911, then blasted it with a shotgun, threw rocks at it, and even doused its rear wing in acid before ...

As the horsepower war between automakers in the 1960s forged the Muscle Car era, the need to deliver increased fuel to V8 combustion chambers became evident to engine designers. But without enough ...

Your career says a lot about who you are, and so does the car sitting in your garage. Whether you’re crunching numbers in a ...

Now in its eighth generation, the 911 series has undergone a transformation that’s entailed—among other refinements—vastly increased output over the years. But the air-cooled, normally aspirated ...

If you have gone car shopping lately, chances are that most of the cars offered to you are powered by turbocharged four-cylinder engines. This is the trend these days, but at one time, dealer lots ...

There was a time, long ago, when passenger vehicles used to be much simpler than they are today. There were many downsides of this era, safety chief among them, but there were some perks as well. They ...

We're going to avoid the low-hanging fruit here and just say up front that no, old Beetles did not pipe hot exhaust gas straight into their cabins. They relied on exhaust gases to heat up (relatively) ...