Subaru's Boxer Layout Is Still Sleeping On People—Low CG and That Flat-Six Balance
"Subaru doesn't market what matters. They sell reliability theater while sitting on one of the last OEM platforms where physics still wins arguments."
— Revvly Take
Subaru's horizontally-opposed architecture does real work: lower center of gravity, perfect primary balance without counterweights, and a narrow engine bay that lets engineers actually think about weight distribution. The engineering is clean. It's why 22B STis and even modest 2.0T builds punch above their price point—the platform does half the work for you.
Erik Sherman
TopSpeed · Jan 8
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