Air-cooled engines were once commonplace in the auto and moto industries. The most well-known were the Porsche flat six, VW flat four, Corvair, and numerous motorcycle engines, from BMW to ...

You’ll travel back to a decade when cars defined identities and turned daily drives into statements of style and power. This ...

By the middle of the 1950s, a handful of cars were already proving that comfort and speed did not have to live in separate ...

One of the most recent entries in this series of articles focused on ten things gearheads should know about the Volkswagen Beetle, meaning this author can simply copy and paste from that story given ...

One of the most hotly debated topics among Porsche enthusiasts is which is better: the air-cooled or water-cooled 911. The sports automaker had used an air-cooled engine across multiple generations of ...

The answer comes on a derestricted stretch of autobahn close to Ruf’s headquarters in Pfaffenhausen, Bavaria. Traffic clears from the passing lane to leave me looking over the Tribute’s hood at more ...

Now in its eighth generation, the 911 series has undergone a transformation that’s entailed—among other refinements—vastly increased output over the years. But the air-cooled, normally aspirated ...

There was a time, long ago, when passenger vehicles used to be much simpler than they are today. There were many downsides of this era, safety chief among them, but there were some perks as well. They ...

We're going to avoid the low-hanging fruit here and just say up front that no, old Beetles did not pipe hot exhaust gas straight into their cabins. They relied on exhaust gases to heat up (relatively) ...