The name didn't stick, but the engine did. The flat-twin, boxer, pancake, or horizontally opposed twin engine is still widely used in some of the most complex machines of our time. This is the ...

Building an engine so powerful it got banned in not one, but two series, takes some doing. But Porsche did just that with the ...

BMW Motorrad hit the scene in a big way in 1923 with the R 32, a machine designed by Max Friz which featured the first ever flat-twin boxer motorcycle engine (read the BMW Motorrad Boxer Twin ...