Porsche built a couple prototype diesel engines which were installed in
Beetles back in the fifties.  They were set up in your typical flat four
aircooled configuration.

On 10/4/06, Joel Walker <jwalker@bama.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> Sure would be neat ... but a horizontally opposed diesel has been around
> for
> years ... Tatra, the big military truck company in the Czech republic, has
> been making them for a very long time.
>
> Only trouble is/was ... they are 12 cylinder. :)
>

Casey
Olympia, WA
Biodiesel: "I drive in a persistent vegetative state"
'87 300TD intercooler #22 (218k)
'84 300D (216k)
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