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 ...

Subaru was experimental in the 1990s, and for the Legacy, it made one of the weirdest engines we've ever seen. Subaru is conservative these days. It sticks with technologies it knows well, evolving ...