UK Defender specialist Twisted has jumped from Land Rover to VW for its latest special ... Twisted says it doubled the air-cooled boxer engine’s power, but output still doesn’t top 80 hp.

I’m here in lovely Bozeman, Montana for Volkswagen’s new Tiguan event, and, sure, the new Tig looks nice, but I’m more taken by another car VW brought to the party: a 1973 VW Type 181, which most of ...

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 Harley ...

VW Golf: a rapid sales success ... right down to their rear-mounted, air-cooled, four-cylinder boxer engines; ’50s and ’60s riffs on a vehicle concept designed in the 1930s.

It was, in every respect, a parts bin special ... batch of around 1200 Type 147s – fitted with VW's more powerful 1300cc air-cooled engine as well as some very cool-looking wrap-round side ...

With only a few moving parts — two-strokes lack complex ... can lead to valve or piston failures. In 1968, the VW air-cooled 4-cylinder engine became the first to offer electronic fuel injection ...

Porsche’s air-cooled flat-six still has life in it. To honor the 60th birthday of the 911’s engine, Ruf Automobile ­created the Tribute, a carbon-chassis car shaped like a 911. It sports ...

Of course, it’s sometimes said that Porsche‘s air-cooled engines are the most expensive way to make horsepower, and that appears to be the case here. The starting price for these heads isn’t ...

Even worse, the air-cooled engine is a pollution nightmare. Production lines start to close, or get converted to build other VW cars. The last VW Beetle rolls off the German production line in 1974.