Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Jeep Wrangler (pictured is a TJ Wrangler) is a 4WD vehicle with a transfer case to select low-range or high-range four-wheel drive.. A four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, is a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously.
ControlTrac four-wheel drive is the brand name of a selectable automatic full-time four-wheel drive system offered by Ford Motor Company. The four-wheel drive system was designed and developed at BorgWarner under its TorqTransfer Systems division in the mid 1980s. [1] [2] [3] BorgWarner calls the system Torque-On-Demand (TOD).
Manufactured in East Liberty, Ohio, [5] the Element used a modified second generation CR-V platform with front-wheel or a system marketed as “real time 4-wheel drive” that sends some torque to the rear wheels if the front wheels lose traction. In late 2010, shortly before its discontinuation, production had totaled approximately 325,000. [6]
Jeep uses a variety of four-wheel drive systems on their vehicles.These range from basic part-time systems that require the driver to move a control lever to send power to four wheels, to permanent four-wheel systems that monitor and sense traction needs at all four wheels automatically under all conditions.
The Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive (also known as Symmetrical AWD or SAWD) is a full-time four-wheel drive system developed by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Subaru. The system consists of a longitudinally mounted boxer engine coupled to a symmetrical drivetrain with equal length half- axles .
It is powered with a 2.4-litre i-VTEC inline-four engine that puts out 185 hp and 163 pound-feet (220 Nm) of torque at 4,400 rpm along with an all-new Real-Time all-wheel-drive (AWD) with intelligent control system.
The second generation of 4Matic utilized a full-time 4-wheel drive system with three open differentials front, centre and rear. Traction control is achieved using ETS (Electronic Traction System). This employs the ABS system with additional valves to monitor and then partially brake any wheel which loses traction.
4-Ton Truck, 4x4 (Four Wheel Drive Model HAR-1) During the Second World War the Four Wheel Drive Model HAR-1, a 4-Ton, 4x4 Truck, was produced and delivered to the US-Army. [8] The US Army placed an order and between 7,000 and 9,000 were produced for them, although most of these were supplied to allies under Lend-Lease. [9]