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 ...

You know it when you hear it: the grumbly, all-too-unmistakable sound of an approaching Subaru and its characteristic flat-four-cylinder engine. Since the mid-1960s, the boxer engine has been a ...

Subaru, already an outsider with its flat-four engines and all-wheel-drive systems in passenger cars, looked to the far corners of the engineering world in the early 1990s to devise a novel solution ...

We explain why Subaru’s boxer engine layout is especially well-suited for off-roading, from stability to traction advantages. Subaru continues using boxer engines for low center of gravity and ...