Longitudinally mounted front-engine and front-wheel drive Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout

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a 1975 alfa romeo alfasud sprint veloce using longitudinally mounted front-engine , front-wheel drive.


the 1946 panhard dyna x, designed jean-albert grégoire, had engine longitudinally in front of front wheels, transmission behind engine , differential @ rear of assembly. arrangement, used panhard until 1967, potentially had weight distribution problem analogous of cord l29 mentioned above. however, panhard s air-cooled flat twin engine light, , mounted low down low centre of gravity reducing effect. air-cooled flat twin engine of citroën 2cv mounted low, in front of front wheels, transmission behind axle line , differential between two. became quite popular; cars using layout included german ford taunus 12m , lancia flavia , fulvia. standard configuration of audi , subaru front-wheel-drive vehicles. in 1979, toyota introduced , launched first front-wheel-drive car, tercel, , had engine longitudinally mounted, unlike other front-wheel-drive cars on market @ time. arrangement continued on second-generation tercel, until 1987, third generation received new, transversely mounted engine. other front-wheel-drive toyota models, such camry, , corolla, had transversely mounted engines beginning on.


the 1966 oldsmobile toronado (along sister models cadillac eldorado , buick riviera) used novel arrangement had engine , transmission in side-by-side arrangement power being transmitted between 2 via heavy-duty chain, , specially designed intermediate driveshaft passed under engine sump. family has distinction of being highest engine capacity (8.2 l) front-wheel-drive vehicles ever built. saab 99 , “classic” saab 900 used similar arrangement. eagle premier used similar powertrain arrangement found in renault 21 , 25 – later becoming basis chrysler lh sedans produced until 2004 model year.


today, audi prominent user of mechanical layout, having used since 1950s in predecessor companies dkw , auto union, , can found in larger models a4 upward. latest evolution of format in audi s mlb platform attempts address long standing drawback of uneven weight distribution. done packaging differential in front of clutch, allowing axle line further forward in relation rear face of engine block.









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