longitudinal engine but FWD?
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Eighteeteewhy said:
Triumph Man said:
Also, the Renault 5 had a longitudinal engine. In a supermini!
I didn't know that?Triumph Man said:
Camaro91 said:
I believe the old Cadillac El Dorado had a longitudinal 8.2-litre v8 powering the front wheels!
I'm sure it had some weird drive arrangement that sapped a load of power, sending it forwards, then turning it around through a series of bevel gears and then sending it back to the front wheels. Or something. I'm sure 300 will be along soon to correct me!Huff said:
Renault 16s were longitudinal mid-engined FWD! The engine is behind the transaxle - and that's the cylinder head disappearing under the scuttle into the cabin:
That's "front-mid engined", we avoid calling that design simply "mid-engined" because despite it being inside the wheelbase just like a Lamborghini, the typical assumption for the term "mid-engined" is that it's behind the cabin!Suppose a few Audis are technically front-mid engined too. Certainly my A4 had the entirety of its V6 mounted (longitudinally) behind the front axle line!
Boosted LS1 said:
iva cosworth said:
ALL SAABs before the 9000 and new gen [GM] 900 were this way.
Yep, engine in back to front. Gearbox underneath and double wishbones. A proper handling car 
Bad for replacing timing chain.......and jackshaft on frozen 99 engines
Don't sell it! Triumph Man said:
... The 21 actually had transverse and longitudinal engines, depending on which engine you went for. The turbo was longitudinal, for example, whereas the 1.7 was transverse.
and the 1.7-engined cars' front axle line was further forward than in the 2.0-engined cars because of this, meaning a longer wheelbase on 1.7s... (And the Saloons had a shorter wheelbase than the Estates, so the R21 was available with 4 wheelbases depending on engine and body type!!!) Madness but it made economic sense as it was cheaper than a new gearbox for the 1.7-engined models apparently. BAck to the R5, the engine/transmission unit in the early ones was installed longitudionally with the end-on inline gearbox at the front of the car adjacent the radiator and the engine adjacent to the bulkhead, which is why the centre of the dashboard sat so far back in the passenger compartment
.loose cannon said:
80s renaults
Yes had a few R Fuego and 18 TL/GTS/GTS they had the engine hanging out the front like this. One of my Fuego's had a bad vibration that used to losen all the bolts holding the gearbox to the block ao every 500 miles we had to tighten all the bolts back up or the gearbox would try and depart!I think the R 12 also had the same layout, I remember having a 1.2 R12 - it taught me a lot about understeer! these were also sold under licence in Romania as Dacia's.
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