Like Porsche, Subaru uses flat, boxer-style horizontally-opposed engines; so do BMW motorcycles.
Unlike nearly all other car markers, Subaru uses a flat 4 boxer engine, and has refined it over time instead of replacing it or running several different designs.
The Forester continues to use Subaru's unusual flat-four "boxer" 2.5-liter engine, positioned horizontally for optimum stability.
Such is the case with buyers of BMW motorcycles powered by the flat-twin "boxer" engine design that has been a brand attribute since the 1920s.
Co-developed by Subaru and Toyota and produced by Subaru's parent, Fuji Heavy Industries, in Japan, the BRZ is engineered to exploit the inherent advantages of the Subaru direct gasoline injection flat-four "boxer" engine.
Later, when it began snowing in Takotna, obscuring the mountain across the river and grounding all aircraft, I heard a story from Jeff Schultz, the longtime official race photographer, about "why my nose looks like this," which is to say, flat, like a boxer's.
Displacing 2.9-liters, the newest Boxster's flat 6-cylinder "boxer" engine develops 255-hp.
The opposed-cylinder design, often called a "boxer" or flat engine, is most familiar as the power behind the original VW Beetle.
Instead of "V" engines such as V-6s and V-8s, whose two banks of cylinders point away from each other, horizontally opposed engines (also called "boxer engines" or "flat engines") use two banks of cylinders situated 180 degrees opposite each other.
For example, dogs with flat noses — pugs, bulldogs, some boxers — may have trouble breathing during strenuous exercise.
It is worth noting that the breeds boxer, Rottweiler, and flat-coated retriever were not among the cases of gastric carcinoma in our study.
