Car with both Transverse & Longitudinal engine options?

[TooMany2cvs]

daniel1920 said:

Really? Longitudinal FWD must be fairly rare, but that's a bit off topic

Not as common as transverse, sure, but not that rare.

[kambites]

Krikkit said:

It is, I think only Audi has done it in the last 30 years.

Audi and other bits of VAG using Audi's platforms, yeah.

[daniel1920]

kambites said:

Audi and other bits of VAG using Audi's platforms, yeah.

Interesting thanks.
I'm all out of ideas for OP then

[kambites]

Nanook said:

Subaru have made longl engined FWD cars too, in the last 30 years.

Alfa might have just about, too; I'm not sure of the timing. Boxer engines make it make more sense, I suppose.

[RedSwede]

Saab 900, for the Longitudinal, FWD thing.

[InitialDave]

SS2. said:

Fiat Panda 30 = longitudinal 2 pot.

Fiat Panda 45 = transverse 4 pot.

Ah, I forgot they did that. That was basically the 126 gubbins stuck in the front, wasn't it?

[Alex]

Renault 5 switched from longitudinal to transverse.

The 5th generation Toyota Corolla had a transverse engine except the AE86 coupe, which was also RWD.

The Alfa 145/146 was available with the longitudinal flat four, and the transverse Twin Spark.

[r11co]

kambites said:

The BMW 1-series is currently built as both, albeit not in the same body-style. The (Chinese market) saloon is FWD, the (rest of the world) hatch is RWD

Not just bodystyle - the entire platform. The Chinese 1 series is based on the 2 series FWD boxy MPV that the rest of the world has, which shares a platform with the MINI.

[Clive-sz8cz]

How about the Bond three wheeler with the pivoted single cylinder engine/front wheel steering arrangement. The engine was transverse or longitudinal (and all points inbetween) depending on whether you were going in a straight line or going round a corner.....

[Fastdruid]

Citroen BX... If you count the 4TC

[crofty1984]

Renault 5 started longitudinal

[kambites]

r11co said:

kambites said:

The BMW 1-series is currently built as both, albeit not in the same body-style. The (Chinese market) saloon is FWD, the (rest of the world) hatch is RWD

Not just bodystyle - the entire platform. The Chinese 1 series is based on the 2 series FWD boxy MPV that the rest of the world has, which shares a platform with the MINI.

True. Or to or another to view it is to say China got the gen-3 1-series a couple of years before the rest of the world, with the gen-2's face glued to it.

[russell_ram]

gazza285 said:

TooMany2cvs said:

gazza285 said:

Triumph 1500 was available with both.

No, they were all longitudinal, both FWD and RWD.

You're not wrong...

Would it be pedantic to suggest that the Triumph 1300, 1500 and Toledo were FWD longitudinal whilst it was the (different) facelifted Triumph Dolomite that was RWD?

[mr_fibuli]

Fastdruid said:

Citroen BX... If you count the 4TC

And the Lancia Delta, if you count the S4

[BuzzBravado]

Nanook said:

Subaru have made longl engined FWD cars too, in the last 30 years.

I thought all Subaru's were 4WD even the basic ones. I cant think of any Subaru that wasn't 4WD.

[J4CKO]

Stretching it, Elise and Hennessy Venom ?

Elise is transverse and the Venom is Elise-ish based but with a longitudinal engine.

[john2443]

daniel1920 said:

kambites said:

No, they're all longitudinal.

Really? Longitudinal FWD must be fairly rare, but that's a bit off topic

Audis, Citroen Traction & 2CV, Various Renaults...

[InitialDave]

BuzzBravado said:

I thought all Subaru's were 4WD even the basic ones. I cant think of any Subaru that wasn't 4WD.

Leaving aside the BRZ, they've done 2WD Imprezas and Vivios, probably others I can't recall.

[TooMany2cvs]

BuzzBravado said:

I thought all Subaru's were 4WD even the basic ones. I cant think of any Subaru that wasn't 4WD.

Even some cooking Imprezas were FWD.
https://www.parkers.co.uk/subaru/impreza/saloon-19...

russell_ram said:

Would it be pedantic to suggest that the Triumph 1300, 1500 and Toledo were FWD longitudinal whilst it was the (different) facelifted Triumph Dolomite that was RWD?

Far more complicated than that, but it's all the same basic car/shell.

The FWD 1500 had the same nose and tail as the RWD Dolomite, as did the RWD 1500TC...
The RWD Toledo had the same tail as the FWD 1300, but with different lights in the 1500/Dolomite nose - then the RWD Dolomite 1300 used the Toledo lights with the Dolomite tail.

[AppleJuice]

Renault Espace (Gen I & Gen II)

generationx said:

Renault 21

Quadra on some models IIRC

Four different wheelbases springs to mind?