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powertrain layout of a motorised vehicle such as a car is often defined by the location of the engine or motors and the drive wheels. Layouts can roughly...

improve a vehicle's handling.While the mechanical layout of an FMR is substantially the same as an FR car, the classification of some models of the same...

performance focused front-engined cars are also "mid-engined", by having the main engine mass behind the front axle, RMR layout cars were previously (until ca...

vehicle. Car handling is not ideal, but usually predictable. In contrast with the front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout (RWD), the FWD layout eliminates...

(or RMR) layout. The mechanical layout and packaging of an RMR car are substantially different from that of a front-engine or rear-engine car. When the...

side of the car, connected to the wheels via a drive shaft. The main types of Front engine design are: Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, the traditional...

front-engine front-wheel-drive layout also has this advantage. Since the engine is typically the heaviest component of the car, putting it near the rear axle...

of the car, lowering its moment of inertia). Many early successful (and mostly French) mass-produced front-wheel drive cars used the MF layout, until...

most common layout for a front-wheel-drive car is with the engine and transmission at the front of the car, mounted transversely. Other layouts of front-wheel...

space. This layout was once popular in small, inexpensive cars and light commercial vehicles. Today most car makers have abandoned the layout although it...

configuration for cars. Most rear-wheel drive vehicles feature a longitudinally-mounted engine at the front of the car. The most common layout for a rear-wheel...

either located at the front (FR layout) or in the middle of the vehicle (MR layout). Examples of FR layout sports cars include the Caterham 7, Mazda MX-5...

The Nissan Z-series is a model series of sports cars manufactured by Nissan since 1969. The original Z was first sold on October of 1969 in Japan as the...

the front-engine car layout dominated, with closed bodies and standardized controls becoming the norm. In 1919, 90 percent of cars sold were open; by...

rear-wheel-drive vehicle layout. The earliest example of the form appeared in 1932, with the design and construction of the prototype Maroon Car by chief designer...

cars, built and raced by Count Louis Zborowski and his engineer Clive Gallop in the 1920s, which inspired the book Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. The cars were...

series were the first to offer all-wheel drive in a high-speed road-based car. These, particularly the Quattro, would extensively develop this drivetrain...

time. However, the 1903 Spyker 60 HP was the first car built with an F4 drive layout. This layout is also the drive train of choice for off-road pickup...

California Railway Museum in Perris, California. Cab car layout Trailer car layout Bar car layout The Comet II cars were built by Bombardier Transportation, which...

engine, which has an inline-6 variant for JLR's bigger cars and SUVs. By the mid-1990s, the V6 layout was the most common configuration for six-cylinder automotive...