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Porsche made brilliant front-engine, rear-transaxle cars in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and they owe us a new one. The 718 Boxster and Cayman have taken over as the cheap Porsches of the day, sort of ...
The V-8powered, rear-engine XP-819 was experimental. 0:00 / 0:00 By the time the XP-880 Astro-II debuted at the New York Auto Show in 1968, the C3 had been in production and on the road for over ...
Volkswagen is planning to build a new rear-engine car that will slot in below the New Beetle, the Rabbit, and even the Polo. Read more here at Automobile Magazine online.
The engine that sits in back is classic EG — a B18 LS block with a B16A2 VTEC head — and powers the rear wheels through a mostly normal five-speed transaxle.
Yes, our friend the Patent-Motorwagen was a true rear-engine car, along with the Beetle, and the present-day Porsche 911, with its longitudinally mounted six-cylinder "boxer." ...
The 1979 MGB originally used a 1.8-liter naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine and a four-speed manual transmission, to drive the rear wheels. It also weighed less than 2,500 pounds, making it ...
You’re looking at the mid/rear-engine V-12 application of Ferrari’s HY-KERS hybrid system. ... The distance between the engine and transaxle has been shortened to zero, ...
The V-8powered, rear-engine XP-819 was experimental. 0:00 / 0:00 By the time the XP-880 Astro-II debuted at the New York Auto Show in 1968, the C3 had been in production and on the road for over ...