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 ...
You'll also hear folks refer to them as "air-cooled" Volkswagen engines because, as the name implies, they do not use a liquid cooling system to maintain operating temperatures. Here's everything ...
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 ...