The world is moving on from internal combustion engines, but for most gearheads, talking about which electric motor is better is as boring as comparing t.
Born in the late-1980s, the EJ was a flat-four that powered the vast majority of the Japanese carmaker’s vehicles for more than three decades. The most capable versions were fitted under the hoods of the WRX-badged Imprezas, the legendary road and rally cars that helped transform Subaru into a global brand.
If you’re not from Japan, you probably never heard about the Toyota Century. Since the late-1960s, the luxury sedan has been the manufacturer’s flagship car for the domestic market, and from 1997 to 2007, it was powered by the company’s only series-production V12.
Allegedly capable of much more than that, the M12/13 was a race-bred turbocharged straight-four that holds the title of Formula One’s most powerful engine.