One of the most hotly debated topics among Porsche enthusiasts is which is better: the air-cooled or water-cooled 911. The sports automaker had used an air-cooled engine across multiple generations of ...

Porsche patents hybrid air-water cooled engine with ducted housing, cooling fins, and rear-mounted fan for smaller radiators ...

Porsche may have stopped building air-cooled 911s nearly three decades ago, but it clearly hasn’t stopped thinking about them. A newly published German patent reveals a fascinating cooling concept ...

Few things stay the same for long in the automotive world, yet Porsche's air-cooled flat-six engine defied the industry and hung around for well over three decades. It actually did a lot more than ...

Air-cooled engines were once commonplace in the auto and moto industries. The most well-known were the Porsche flat six, VW flat four, Corvair, and numerous motorcycle engines, from BMW to ...

There was a time, long ago, when passenger vehicles used to be much simpler than they are today. There were many downsides of this era, safety chief among them, but there were some perks as well. They ...

Despite its legendary history in the motorcycling space, the air-cooled engine is all but extinct in a sea of modern liquid-cooled bikes. The name says it all. Air-cooled engines use ambient air as a ...

One of the most recent entries in this series of articles focused on ten things gearheads should know about the Volkswagen Beetle, meaning this author can simply copy and paste from that story given ...