The spark plugs fire together on every power and exhaust stroke, eliminating the need for a distributor ... handful of other early VW autos was an equally iconic air-cooled horizontally-opposed ...

distributor, and turns the fresh-air hoses for the heater (something that would only be on a '63-and-up engine) into kinda strange arc-shaped things. The general layout is very recognizable ...

When air-cooled engines are mentioned, we tend to think of the VW Beetle or Porsche 911, but plenty of other cars featured ...

Though not the only car to ever feature an air-cooled engine, looking at you, VW Beetle, it is arguably the most famous.

VW went on to sell more than 23 million units ... and running any engine without sufficient oil in the crankcase is inviting disaster. Air-cooled engines like the Beetle's vibrate more than ...

As you know, the ghost of Marv Alpert's breakfast once gave me the solemn task of making weird air-cooled VWs known to a wide audience, and that's what I'm doing. This time, the car is VW's first ...

With 530PS (523hp) and 757Nm (558lb-ft) of peak torque, the VW T1 Race Taxi is not a vehicle to mess with. It’s powered by an air-cooled light alloy six-cylinder sourced from Porsche 993 fitted ...

The last 911 powered this way vanished after the 1998 model year, while the air-cooled Beetle soldiered on until 2003. Between them are, arguably, the most iconic car and the most popular car ...

“The VW air-cooled engine has been perhaps the greatest produced engine in numbers the world has seen.” The move comes three years after Volkswagen’s Mexican division stopped production of ...

Yeah, if you have access to a newer VW with heated and cooled seats, go check it out ... but you can also turn on the ventilation to keep the air circulating in case the heat raises the local ...