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    a mid-engine layout describes the placement of an automobile engine in front of the rear-wheel axles, but behind the front axle. The mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive...
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    In automobile design, a rear-engine design layout places the engine at the rear of the vehicle. The center of gravity of the engine itself is behind the...
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    weight goes on the rear wheels, that causes understeer. Mid-engine design Rear-engine design Vangelder (24 February 2017). Fundamentals of Automotive...
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    In automotive design, an RMR, or rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout is one in which the rear wheels are driven by an engine placed with its center...
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    Chevrolet Corvette (C8) (category Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    is the first rear mid-engine Corvette since the model's introduction in 1953, differing from the traditional front mid-engine design started in 1963. The...
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    Ferrari Testarossa (category Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    with a rear-mounted, five-speed manual transmission. The rear mid-engine design (engine between the axles but behind the cabin) keeps the centre of gravity...
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    straight-six engine has perfect primary and secondary engine balance, resulting in fewer vibrations than other designs of six or fewer cylinders. Until the mid-20th...
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    front-engine design (as either an FF layout, FR layout or F4 layout), however the majority of cars with a mid-engine design or rear-engine design belong...
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    basic design and architecture with the larger Family II unit (correspondingly known as the "large block"), which covers the mid range and higher engine capacities...
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    originally designed to be fitted to a VW Beetle floor pan. A tube frame was engineered as a test mule to find out the capabilities of a mid-engine design using...
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    Lamborghini Miura (category Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    impressed by Marcello Gandini's sleek styling and the car's revolutionary mid-engine design. Lamborghini's flagship, the Miura received periodic updates and remained...
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  • cab over engine or mid-engine design. Typically fitted with Toyota engines, a few versions, particularly diesels, received Daihatsu's own engines. The Delta...
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    In automotive design, an M4, or Mid-engine, Four-wheel-drive layout places the internal combustion engine in the middle of the vehicle, between both axles...
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  • Thumbnail for Mercedes-Benz M156 engine
    V8 engine designed autonomously by Mercedes-Benz subsidiary Mercedes-AMG, as previous AMG engines have always been based on original Mercedes engines. The...
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    In automotive design, a front-engine, front-wheel-drive (FWD) layout, or FF layout, places both the internal combustion engine and driven roadwheels at...
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    In automotive design, an F4, or front-engine, four-wheel drive (4WD) layout places the internal combustion engine at the front of the vehicle and drives...
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    differs from typical Ruf models in that it uses a Mid-engine design, as opposed to the 911's Rear-engine design. Automotive journalists have compared it to...
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    longitudinal engine, where the engine's crankshaft axis is parallel with the direction of travel. (Some rear-mid engine vehicles use a transverse engine and transaxle...
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    In automotive design, a front-mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout (also called more simply "mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout", and abbreviated MF...
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  • sport a mid-engined design. It also sported a new flat-12 engine, the Tipo F102A, and was the first Ferrari road car to feature such an engine. It was...
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    Toyota MR2 (category Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    for engine placement and drive method, finalizing a mid-transverse engine placement. Toyota called the 1981 prototype SA-X. From its original design, the...
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    The Mazda L-series is a mid-sized inline 4-cylinder gasoline piston engine designed by Mazda as part of their MZR family, ranging in displacement from...
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    Kitten was powered by a 10 hp engine. Additionally there was at least one prototype featuring two tracks and a mid-engine design. The more common four track...
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    and high-floor buses and school buses. A front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout (FMR) places the engine in the front half of the vehicle but behind the...
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  • a conventional front-engined designed, the prototype race car used a mid-engined design (also known as a rear mid-engine design; behind the driver, but...
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    The Wankel engine (/ˈvʌŋkəl/, VAHN-kəl) is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion...
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  • Thumbnail for Overhead valve engine
    intake-over-exhaust engines used a hybrid design combining elements of both side-valves and overhead valves. The first internal combustion engines were based on...
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    Porsche 550 (category Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    Porsche 550 is a mid-engine car with an air-cooled four-cylinder engine, following the precedent of the 1948 Porsche 356/1 prototype designed by Ferry Porsche...
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    [citation needed] Disadvantages of V4 engines include its design being inherently wider compared to inline-4 engines, as well as the requirement of two exhaust...
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    most technically complex engine, the original double overhead cam, four valve per cylinder, aluminum block/aluminum head V8 design was developed by Oldsmobile...
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