Back in the 1960s, Subaru brought the boxer engine closer to mass market buyers, after Porsche put it into its very first sports cars. By this time, the automotive world existed mostly on inline and V layout engines, making the boxer a pretty substantial novelty. Instead of the cylinders completing the process of internal combustion vertically, they are mounted sideways, horizontally opposing each other. Thus, when the pistons are moving up and down, they look like they’re boxing, which
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