Subaru is one of those automakers that just has a certain identity to it, thanks to elements like quirky styling, often-standard all-wheel drive, and horizontally opposed engines – boxers, as the company calls them. Well, Siberia’s mad scientists at Garage 54 took aim at that engine layout in a recent video, removing the 2.5-liter flat-four from an older Subaru Forester and cutting it into pieces. But since Garage 54 doesn’t commit wanton acts of destruction without a purpose, the YouTube channel also decided to reconfigure the famed engine layout into something altogether more common, welding it back together with all cylinders in a line.
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