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From: klf@druwa.ATT.COM (FranklinKL)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: V4 V6 V8 V12 Vx?
Summary: Ferrari not a true boxer?
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Date: 26 Apr 93 18:16:52 GMT
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In article <Apr24.180313.21646@engr.washington.edu>, eliot@lanmola.engr.washington.edu (eliot) writes:
| In article <1993Apr24.150653.8115@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> bqueiser@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Brian J Queiser) writes:
| >Examples:
| >
| >Ferrari's 512TR is a flat 12 boxer.
| >Porsche's 911 is a flat 6.
| >Subaru's Impreza is a flat 4.
| 
| i think you got it the other way round: the Ferrari flat 12 is a 180
| degree v12 and not a "true" boxer, while the subaru and porsche are
| true boxers.  don't know about the vw bug though, but i suspect that
| it is also a true boxer.
| 
| eliot

Are you serious?  The auto that had a lot to do with bringing the term
"boxer" to the popular forefront was the Ferrari 512 Berlinetta Boxer
or the 512BB. Had a 5 liter, opposed 12 cylinder engine.

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