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  • Rear-wheel drive (RWD) is a form of engine and transmission layout used in motor vehicles, in which the engine drives the rear wheels only. Until the late...
    8 KB (1,073 words) - 03:44, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout
    front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout (FR) is an automotive design with an engine in front and rear-wheel-drive, connected via a drive shaft. This arrangement...
    3 KB (365 words) - 05:48, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout
    In automotive design, an RMR, or rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout is one in which the rear wheels are driven by an engine placed with its center...
    12 KB (1,468 words) - 02:40, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout
    In automotive design, an RR, or rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout places both the engine and drive wheels at the rear of the vehicle. In contrast to...
    13 KB (1,578 words) - 10:25, 28 July 2024
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    an automobile engine in front of the rear-wheel axles, but behind the front axle. The mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive format can be considered the original...
    16 KB (1,821 words) - 12:01, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Four-wheel drive
    torque to only two axle ends: the front two in front-wheel drive or the rear two in rear-wheel drive. Similarly, a 6×4 vehicle has three axles, two of which...
    75 KB (9,486 words) - 19:59, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Drive shaft
    minimizing rear wheel drive reaction torque from twisting the transaxle in any plane. A drive shaft connecting a rear differential to a rear wheel may...
    20 KB (2,644 words) - 17:00, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout
    providing power to the rear wheels. Like the rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout (RR) and rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout (RMR) layouts, it...
    15 KB (2,020 words) - 14:20, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout
    four-wheel-drive layouts are front-engined and are derivatives of earlier front-engine, rear-wheel drive, or front-engine, front-wheel drive designs. The...
    6 KB (683 words) - 11:24, 5 May 2024
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    Drive or FWD, one of the first companies, from 1909, to build four-wheel drive vehicles. Front-wheel drive H-drive Individual wheel drive (IWD) Rear-wheel...
    6 KB (712 words) - 08:49, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Six-wheel drive
    equipment hauling both on- and off-road. Most six-wheel drive vehicles have a forward axle and two at the rear (with only the front pair steering), or three evenly...
    7 KB (811 words) - 19:17, 20 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quattro (four-wheel-drive system)
    allows handling characteristics and vehicle dynamics more akin to rear-wheel drive cars. This asymmetric Torsen was first introduced in the highly acclaimed...
    37 KB (5,142 words) - 08:28, 17 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Front-wheel drive
    front-wheel-drive vehicles feature a transverse engine, rather than the conventional longitudinal engine arrangement generally found in rear-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive...
    43 KB (5,168 words) - 04:52, 27 May 2024
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    Axle (redirect from Rear axle)
    the rotational force to a drive axle at the rear of the vehicle. The drive axle may be a live axle, but modern rear-wheel drive automobiles generally use...
    14 KB (1,999 words) - 09:26, 2 August 2024
  • and the drive wheels. Layouts can roughly be divided into three categories: front-wheel drive (FWD), rear-wheel drive (RWD) and four-wheel drive (4WD)....
    7 KB (1,144 words) - 17:19, 22 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rear-engine, front-wheel-drive layout
    A rear-engine, front-wheel-drive layout is one in which the engine is between or behind the rear wheels, and drives the front wheels via a driveshaft...
    5 KB (616 words) - 02:46, 21 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for BMW xDrive
    available with all-wheel drive were the 1985-1992 E30 325iX and 1991-1996 E34 525iX models. These cars use centre and rear differentials with viscous...
    9 KB (1,060 words) - 18:17, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for T-40 (tractor)
    transmission and rear axle, a more rigid connection between the engine and the transmission case, increased diameter of the rear drive wheels, smaller...
    4 KB (430 words) - 16:20, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Torque tube
    involves a stationary housing around the drive shaft, often used in automobiles with a front engine and rear drive. The torque tube consists of a large diameter...
    14 KB (1,539 words) - 23:56, 31 July 2024
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    Cadillac Fleetwood (category Rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
    line, the Fleetwood also filled the gap between the deVille and the rear-wheel drive Fleetwood Brougham (renamed Cadillac Brougham from 1987 until 1992)...
    25 KB (2,238 words) - 15:00, 21 July 2024
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