For decades, the massively popular Volkswagen Type-1 Beetle and the Type-2 VW Microbus or Transporter were powered by a unique air-cooled boxer engine. The Volkswagen air-cooled engine is ...

The VW engine was heavily modified to improve performance for sports car applications. Porsche's 1.1-liter air-cooled flat-four engine from the 356/2 is the rarest air-cooled engine ever made for ...

Introduced in 1957 as a counterpart to the West German VW Beetle, the East German Trabant was powered by a 600cc 2-cylinder air-cooled 2-stroke engine. While it only had 18 horsepower and produced ...

the engine tends to get heated and thus requires cooling in order to perform smoothly. An air-cooled engine is designed with fins on the outside which increase the surface area of the motor ...

The blue VW Kombi Last ... with an air-cooled 1.2-liter flat-four mounted in the rear that made 28 horsepower, but by 2005 it was running with a 1.4-liter water-cooled engine.