Watch a Complete Air-Cooled VW Engine Teardown and Rebuild in Six Minutes Flat. We wish every engine rebuild was this quick. By Brian Silvestro Published: Nov 30, 2017. Save Article.

The air-cooled VW engine seems like a distant thing of the past to most. That's easy to understand since the Beetle left the U.S. in the 1970s because it didn't meet crash safety standards.

When air-cooled engines are mentioned, we tend to think of the VW Beetle or Porsche 911, but plenty of other cars featured them as well. Porsche Built Only 52 Units Of The 1.1-Liter Air-Cooled Boxer-4 ...

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 Harley ...

VW T1 Race Taxi With 530PS Air-Cooled Porsche 993 Engine. ... With 530PS (523hp) and 757Nm (558lb-ft) of peak torque, the VW T1 Race Taxi is not a vehicle to mess with.

The air-cooled engine was the stuff of legend, powering the Porsche 911 and VW Beetle (the real Beetle, not the ersatz New Beetle) to enduring fame in automotive history. And then it was gone.

Right at the very end of the air-cooled era, VW made one last air-cooled car: it’s barely known in the U.S., and has a tricky-to-Google name. Air-cooling was a hallmark of Volkswagen since it ...