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Today most car makers have abandoned the layout although it does continue in some expensive cars, [3] like the Porsche 911. It is also used in some racing car applications, [4] low-floor buses, some Type-D school buses, and microcars such as the Smart Fortwo. Some electric cars feature both rear and front motors, to drive all four wheels. [5]
Rear-engined cars (4 C, 5 P) Rear-engined, front-wheel-drive vehicles (2 P) Pages in category "Rear-engined vehicles" The following 197 pages are in this category ...
To compensate for the uneven (35/65) weight distribution caused by the rear-mounted engine, DeLorean used rear wheels with a diameter slightly greater than the front wheels. Before that was the rear-engined Škoda's from Škoda 1000MB (produced from 1964) to Škoda 130/135/136 (produced until 1990) or the Polski Fiat 126p (produced until ...
Pages in category "Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 347 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
R4 layout, the engine is located behind the rear axle. In automotive design, an R4, or rear-engine, four-wheel-drive layout places the engine at the rear of the vehicle, and drives all four roadwheels. This layout is typically chosen to improve the traction or the handling of existing vehicle designs using the rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive ...
Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles (346 P) Pages in category "Rear-wheel-drive vehicles" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,952 total.
Morgan Clarke Designs has taken a Range Rover Velar and converted it into a Dakar-ready off-road prerunner, complete with rear-engined turbo V-10 making 1600 hp.
This represented an extremely innovative sportscar at a time when all of its competitors (aside from the rear-engined Porsches), from Ferraris to Aston Martins, were traditional front-engined, rear-wheel-drive grand tourers. The Pontiac Fiero was a mid-engined sports car that was built by the Pontiac division of General Motors from 1984 to 1988 ...