“FLAT-FOUR” на російській мові

Four-wheel drive and the musical throb of a flat-four engine give great personality.

Here is a car maker ploughing its own proud furrow which it plants with flat-four engines, frameless door windows and four-wheel drive to make an intriguing if unconventional cocktail.

Porsche's revolutionary chassis enclosed an air-cooled, flat-four engine that had originally been designed in 1912 to power World War I fighter planes.

The low centre of gravity coming from the horizontal installation of the flat-four engine plays its part here, even though the suspension is markedly softer than that of the saloon.

Thanks to the car's lowmounted, flat-four engine, the frontal aspect is nicely aerodynamic and this contributes to the car's impressive overall silence.