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Code Vehicles Years Description LV Mazda MPV / ɛ̃fini MPV: 1988–1995: The LV uses a rear-wheel drive platform with an all-wheel drive option, based on the Mazda Luce HC. LW Mazda MPV: 1996–2006: The LW uses a front-wheel drive platform with an all-wheel drive option in some markets, based on the Mazda Capella GF. LY Mazda8 / Mazda MPV ...
For this reason, most early off-road vehicles used that system; e.g., Jeep, Land Rover. As vehicles became more sophisticated and tires gave better winter performance in the 1960s, there was an interest in giving the benefits of all-wheel drive to conventional cars: not for off-road use but for winter use in snow or on wet roads.
From the early twentieth century, a Latin letter-based naming scheme was used to designate platforms, [1] which were aimed at vehicles under different brands that served similar niches of the market. For example, the B platform was the base for fullsize , rear-wheel drive (RWD) sedans and wagons from 1926 to 1996.
Model code of a Toyota Yaris (XP150) written on the VIN plate. The following model codes have been used by Toyota.The letters of the model code is found by combining the letters of the engine code with the platform code.
Vehicle Name Image Production Bodystyle(s) Model Code Notes D3 platform vehicles (Ford, Lincoln-Mercury) Ford Five Hundred, Ford Taurus: MY 2005–2007 (Five Hundred) 4-door sedan D258 First front-wheel drive full-size Ford; also sold with all-wheel drive. Five-Hundred re-branded Taurus for MY 2008–2009 with upgraded powertrain.
LDT1: a light-duty truck with a loaded vehicle weight of up to 3750 pounds. LDT2: an LEV II light-duty truck with a loaded vehicle weight of 3751 pounds to a gross vehicle weight of 8500 pounds; LED: Light Emitting Diode; LEV: Low-emission vehicle; LPG: Liquified petroleum gas; LVW: Loaded vehicle weight; MAC: Mobile air conditioning
Concept (top view): In a vehicle, motors M1 through M4 drive respective wheels independently, possibly through respective gear arrangements. Individual-wheel drive (IWD) is an automobile design in which the vehicle has an all-wheel drive powertrain that consists of multiple independent traction motors each supplying torque to a single drive wheel. [1]
It is designed to be used in transverse engine configurations in both FWD and AWD configurations. The actual model codes are AW55-50SN and AW55-51SN . Manufactures have sometimes chosen own designations such as AF23 , AF33 [ 1 ] or AF33-5 (GM), [ 2 ] RE5F22A ( Nissan and Infiniti ) [ 3 ] or SU1 ( Renault ). [ 4 ]