Your riding mower’s top speed depends on a number of factors, such as the size of the engine, which often corresponds to the ...

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 ...

Most front-wheel drive cars have a “transaxle,” which combines the transmission and front axle into one piece (hence the name), but functions the same as normal rear-wheel drive system.

The Plan. The C8 flagship, the Zora ZR1, will debut the new mid-engine architecture. Launching as a 2017 model, it will define the top of the Corvette hierarchy just as its precursors did in the ...

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 ...

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." ...

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, ...

Lipscomb recalls bantering many ideas back and forth—including aluminum bodies, front engine/rear transaxles, and mid engine configurations. "The plan certainly didn't materialize overnight." ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...