The closest the car world ever got to a flat-eight-powered model was a one-of-a-kind (well, two-of-a-kind) prototype built by Porsche in the late 1960s: the 914/8, based on the 914. The 914 was the ...

A few aisles away, we spotted yet another horizontally opposed head-scratcher: a 2.0-liter flat-eight engine just hitting production in Great Wall Motor’s SOUO S2000 motorcycle. No, this has ...

While the Small Block Chevy may be the most tunable and the Chrysler HEMI the most powerful, Ford’s Flathead V8 engine has been around for nearly a century and is the grandfather of every V8 ...

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Instead of the Volkswagen flat-four engine found in the standard 914 of the time, Porsche opted for another unusual layout: a flat-eight engine, more specifically the one already found in the 908 ...