A mid-engine car benefits from excellent balanced traction between front and rear wheels. However, the nature of a mid-engine ...

The 812 is as classic as a front-engine, rear-drive layout can be, just with one of the most powerful naturally aspirated engines, V-12 or otherwise, ever mounted in a production car. Ferrari ...

Once a front-engine car hits a certain performance level, there’s no more a manufacturer can do besides put the engine behind the driver. That’s what Chevy did with the Corvette, and that’s ...

A great example of engine downsizing is the Chevrolet Camaro; the top-of-the-line engine for the first-generation Camaro was a 6.5L V8 that only produced 325 horsepower, while the smaller, entry ...

The mid-engine Corvette has been a pipe dream for 40 years. Why did the mid-engine Chevrolet sports car take so long?

The C8's exterior design chief, Kirk Bennion, even sketched such a car before GM hired him in 1984. 0:00 / 0:00 "As a young man in college, I created a mid-engine Corvette" at the Cleveland ...

Electric cars don’t have a big engine at the front, so why design them around internal combustion? ... We can easily fit four full-sized NBA players in our car. It’s less than 5.1m long, ...

Under braking, a rear-engine car will distribute its weight more evenly front-to-rear, while a front-engine car will distribute most of its weight to the front, because that's where a lot of the ...

BMW Designs A 42-Wheel, 19-Engine Car To Fulfill One Child's Fantasy By Jason Torchinsky February 6, 2013 11:00 am EST BMW is one of those companies that gets respect and guff in big, heaping ...

The new C8 Chevy Corvette is the first time the production sports car has had a mid-engine layout. Despite over 60 years of waiting for it, its looks have been remarkably polarizing. But how would ...

It posits that, all things being equal (weight distribution, engine, engine location, and so on), a 200-inch wheelbase dragster will have four times the resistance to lifting as a 100-inch car.

A mid-engine car benefits from excellent balanced traction between front and rear wheels. However, the nature of a mid-engine layout requires either a very long chassis or a two-seat design ...