View post: We Saw the Nichols N1A in Person—A 2,000-Pound V8 Hypercar That Shouldn’t Be Road Legal Boxer engines feature flat, opposing pistons that move in opposite directions for smooth operation.

Subaru, already an outsider with its flat-four engines and all-wheel-drive systems in passenger cars, looked to the far corners of the engineering world in the early 1990s to devise a novel solution ...