The 2CV Wasn’t a Car. It Was a Spec Sheet Turned to Steel. Citroën 2CV and AK400: how Boulanger’s design brief wrote the car before anyone picked up a pencil You’re going to read it a thousand times. The 2CV was “four wheels under an umbrella.” It’s a lovely slogan and it sells itself, but … Read more
The Subaru Boxer Engine: Not Too Reliable, But Tremendously Effective Some engines earn your respect through their reliability. Some earn it through their performance. And then there’s the Subaru boxer, which earns your respect despite everything, because what it does well, it does so extraordinarily well that you forgive everything else. Subaru’s horizontally-opposed engine — … Read more
