<VV> Boxer Motor

[JVHRoberts@aol.com]

Pretty much any horizontally opposed engine is a boxer motor. I have heard 
the BMW flat twin motorcycle engines referred to this way, as well as the flat 
12 Ferrari engines, and everything in between. 
In fact, the Ferrari 512 Berlinetta Boxer was called that due to its boxer 
12. 


In a message dated 3/6/2004 8:13:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
corvair65@verizon.net writes:
What constitutes a boxer motor?  Is a Corvair motor considered a boxer
motor?

I read an article, I believe British, on the Corvair quite a while back,
where the writer referred to it as a boxer motor.  If that is the case,
after watching the last Barrett-Jackson auction, and seeing the inflated
prices any car with a Hemi sold for,  maybe we should call our motors boxer
engines, rather than a Corvair motor, when we get ready to sell them.  Boxer
seems to be a hot term nowadays.  I've even heard Subaru refer to their
engines as being boxers.