file.newsgroup.cars.103772 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (FranklinKL)
Subject: Re: V4 V6 V8 V12 Vx?
In article , [email protected] (eliot) writes:
| In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Brian J Queiser) writes:
| >Examples:
| >
| >Ferrari's 512TR is a flat 12 boxer.
| >Porsche's 911 is a flat 6.
| >Subaru's Impreza is a flat 4.
|
| i think you got it the other way round: the Ferrari flat 12 is a 180
| degree v12 and not a "true" boxer, while the subaru and porsche are
| true boxers. don't know about the vw bug though, but i suspect that
| it is also a true boxer.
|
| eliot
Are you serious? The auto that had a lot to do with bringing the term
"boxer" to the popular forefront was the Ferrari 512 Berlinetta Boxer
or the 512BB. Had a 5 liter, opposed 12 cylinder engine.
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