With the success of Volkswagen’s air-cooled Beetle ... but the company used both water and air-cooled engines throughout their early history. T603 production began in 1956 and lasted until ...

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 ...

The association with air-cooled engines for Porsche goes straight back to the roots of the company and its first production car, the 356. While the first cars used modified VW engines, they would ...

The VW engine was heavily modified to improve ... and laid the foundations of its path to success. Porsche used the air-cooled engine in various notable models over the years.

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 ...