12 Jun A BOXER TURNS 50

While most of us are aware that Porsches have been powered by horizontally-opposed – flat – engines for nearly 60 years, it is easy to overlook the fact that Subarus also feature this configuration and this year the company celebrates 50 years of their usage. Since it was first introduced in the Subaru 1000 in 1966, total global production of the boxer motor over the past half-century tops 16 million units. Today, every vehicle sold by Subaru in South Africa is fitted with a Boxer engine and together with Porsche, remain the only two car manufacturers who equip vehicles with such engines. MM