Rear-engine, Rear-wheel drive The post-war period was an exciting time for American automakers for a lot of reasons. One of which being that wartime rationing meant nobody was developing new cars ...

You can't talk about rear-engine cars without the Volkswagen Beetle. It's tradition, or an old charter, or something. It's also one of the most important cars in automotive history. Ferdinand Porsche ...

Those numbers don't sound like a lot, but they moved a low-slung car that weighed 1,742 lb at its lightest. The engine was placed in the rear, powering the rear wheels through a six-speed single ...

It was pretty clear that the future of the Funny Car formula was set in stone with a tube-frame, front-engine, flip-top layout as the way forward. In the Jan. 1967 issue of , Chevoom was listed as ...

Popular Mid-Engine Sports Cars. While the mid-engine layout offers definite performance advantages — superior handling and increased traction for the rear (driving) wheels versus front-engine cars — ...

Full disclosure: The sports car and its sibling shown here were built in the 1930s. The term "rear engine" usually isn't associated with , but in fact I've recently driven three Heckwagens (German ...

For enthusiasts, that sweet spot has almost always been front engine, rear-wheel drive. Most cars today are front engine, front-wheel drive, and I’m personally partial to the rear/rear combo in ...

My final test of a rear-engine car was of the luxurious 170 H Cabrio-Limousine. With a 1.7-liter engine, its 38 horsepower was enough to let the 2,480-pound car hold its own in California congestion.

But that didn't stop racers from continuing to tickle the rear-engine Funny Car paradigm. "Big" Jim Dunn and Joe Reath had Woody Gilmore construct this 'Cuda Funny Car in late-1971.

There are two ways to execute a mid-engine car: front-mid and rear-mid. The true definition of a vehicle which is mid-engine is that the engine block does not sit over an axle.

It turns out rear-engine cars have some significant advantages. It all has to do with weight distribution. Since there's more weight on the rear-driven axle in a 911 versus a normal sports car, ...