To get started, all it needed was an engine. Unfortunately, that powerplant turned out to be the Subaru flat-12, the largest and ultimately least-successful design in the company's history.

My obsession with Subaru's failed F1 engine, a flat-12, has gone on for years, and I had often heard that the motor nearly went on to power Koenigsegg's first supercar. Now I've finally heard the ...

And since power units are restricted to the 1.6-liter hybrid V6 format, we will almost certainly never see an engine like this Subaru flat-12 that failed miserably on its debut. Named the Subaru ...

In a video published by Drivetribe, it is revealed that Koenigsegg almost used a Subaru flat-six Formula 1 engine ... built a 3.5-liter boxer-12 engine dubbed the 1235 for the Coloni team in ...

Ferrari's flat-12 engine in the Testarossa. Ferrari's history is chock-full of great ideas and innovative inventions. However, not all innovations are necessarily great. Since 1966, Subaru has ...

Both Subaru and Porsche are known for doing things ... Some, like Ferrari's flat-12 engine, has the opposing pistons on the same crankpins, so they move together in the same direction and don ...

Today, you can find them in four-and six-cylinder form in all Subaru models—plus the Toyota ... of as a 180-degree V layout. Ferrari's flat-12 engine were technically 180-degree V12s, though ...

The second clip is an animation of a flat-12 comprising six ... over millions into this engine layout. The culprits are – no surprises here – Porsche and Subaru.

Boxer engines tend to be wide and flat, which can make them difficult to integrate into a car's chassis without special considerations. Subaru makes these considerations without making its cars ...