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    A front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout (FR) is an automotive design with an engine in front and rear-wheel-drive, connected via a drive shaft. This arrangement...
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    design, a front-engine, front-wheel-drive (FWD) layout, or FF layout, places both the internal combustion engine and driven roadwheels at the front of the...
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    Most four-wheel-drive layouts are front-engined and are derivatives of earlier front-engine, rear-wheel drive, or front-engine, front-wheel drive designs...
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    RR, or rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout places both the engine and drive wheels at the rear of the vehicle. In contrast to the RMR layout, the center...
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    or rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout is one in which the rear wheels are driven by an engine placed with its center of gravity in front of the...
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  • Rear-wheel drive (RWD) is a form of engine and transmission layout used in motor vehicles, in which the engine drives the rear wheels only. Until the late...
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    automotive design, a front-mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout (also called more simply "mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout", and abbreviated MF or...
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    A rear-engine, front-wheel-drive layout is one in which the engine is between or behind the rear wheels, and drives the front wheels via a driveshaft...
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  • conventional front-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicle layout. This layout has only been used on prototype and concept cars. The front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout...
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    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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    M4, or Mid-engine, Four-wheel-drive layout places the internal combustion engine in the middle of the vehicle, between both axles and drives all four road...
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  • Thumbnail for Rear-engine, four-wheel-drive layout
    or Rear-engine, Four-wheel-drive layout places the internal combustion engine at the rear of the vehicle, and drives all four roadwheels. This layout is...
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    the front wheels on the ground. Rear-engined vehicles almost always have a rear-wheel drive car layout, but some are four wheel drive. This layout has...
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    Front-wheel drive (FWD) is a form of engine and transmission layout used in motor vehicles, in which the engine drives the front wheels only. Most modern...
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    Front engine design are: Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, the traditional automotive layout for most of the 20th century. Front-engine, front-wheel-drive...
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    dual-motor, four-wheel-drive layout is mainly used by battery electric vehicles by placing electric motors on both front and rear axles and drives all four roadwheels...
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    hauling both on- and off-road. Most six-wheel drive vehicles have a forward axle and two at the rear (with only the front pair steering), or three evenly spaced...
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    rear half-shafts. The traditional front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout is relatively uncommon for cars with flat engines, however some examples include...
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    Ferrari 550 (category Rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    a front-engine V12 2-seat grand tourer built by Ferrari from 1996 to 2002. The 550 Maranello marked Ferrari's return to a front-engine, rear-wheel drive...
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    Porsche 924 (category Rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    production road-going Porsche to use water cooling and a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. It was also the first Porsche to be offered with a conventional...
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    steering gear. See also Front-engine, front-wheel drive layout. Rear-wheel drive (RWD) typically places the engine in the front of the vehicle, with a...
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    a four-wheel vehicle that transmits engine torque to only two axle ends: the front two in front-wheel drive or the rear two in rear-wheel drive. Similarly...
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    Nissan Serena (category Rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    versions were front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout with a live axle mounted on leaf springs. Later versions had a multilink independent rear suspension...
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    1998. Each car based on this platform had a front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout with an independent rear suspension. The roots of the MN12 program began...
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    The Hotchkiss drive is a shaft drive form of power transmission. It was the dominant means for front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout cars in the 20th century...
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    crash, so is also known as a "collapsible drive shaft". These evolved from the front-engine rear-wheel drive layout. A new form of transmission called the...
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    Mazda MX-5 (category Front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    sports car manufactured and marketed by Mazda with a front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. The convertible is marketed as the Mazda Roadster (マツダ・ロードスター...
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    BMW X1 (category Rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    first-generation X1 was based on the E90 3 Series and offered rear-wheel drive layout as standard. At its introduction in 2009, it was positioned as...
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    Hyundai Equus (category Rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    full-size car, four-door, five passenger luxury sedan with a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. The nameplate deriving from the Latin, equus, meaning "horse...
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    Toyota 86 (category Rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    coupé has a naturally-aspirated boxer engine, front-engined, rear-wheel-drive configuration, 53/47 front/rear weight balance and low centre of gravity;...
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