Jon Hall and Motor City Flatheads built a ’33 Ford to serve as a show-car testbed for their new all-aluminum Flathead V-8 engine.

The name didn't stick, but the engine did. The flat-twin, boxer, pancake, or horizontally opposed twin engine is still widely used in some of the most complex machines of our time. This is the ...

Mass production and economies of scale are the arch-enemy of specialization. Leaving aside affordability and exclusivity, there’s a reason why annual Ferrari sales barely break into the double ...

While the Small Block Chevy may be the most tunable and the Chrysler HEMI the most powerful, Ford’s Flathead V8 engine has been around for nearly a century and is the grandfather of every V8 ...

German engineering consultancy FEV displayed a Sytech S415 TC turbocharged flat-four engine bound for production in China this year as a range-extender. A few aisles away, we spotted yet another ...

If you know your Subarus, you’ll know that the brand never sold the Forester STI in purple. This car is finished in Obsidian ...

Now, the brand of flat engines, all-wheel drive and dogs is rectifying that omission with the 2026 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid. Related: 2024 Subaru Crosstrek Review: The Precarious Process of Not ...