Despite being famously panned by Ralph Nader in his book, "Unsafe At Any Speed," Chevrolet managed to sell tens of thousands of its air-cooled VW Beetle-fighting Corvairs between 1960 and 1969.

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 ...

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 ...

Picture a vintage VW Bus: the iconic '60s design, the emblematic VW emblem, the hum of its modest air-cooled engine producing 25 horsepower. Now, throw most of that image out the window ...