Subaru recently
reached a milestone with its 15-millionth boxer engine, marking 49 years of the
company's ingenuity. To celebrate this achievement, here's a discussion about
the boxer engine and the reasons for its well-deserved accolades.
To understand the boxer
engine, it's important to fathom one of the recurring problems of the
combustion engine: vibration. Anything that produces an explosion is followed
by an explosive force; in this case, the force from the combustion chamber.
This is normal for today's engines, but they pose some problems.
