Sentences with phrase «axle line»

Choose an engine short enough to fit entirely behind the front axle line rather than hanging partially over it.

The optional CD auto changer is located in the boot, and the fuel tank is ahead of the rear axle line, behind the rear seats for increased safety.

Here, we can see that the brake calipers are ahead of the front axle line, meaning the steering rack is behind the axle.

The powertrain mass is located behind the front axle line creating a front mid-ship layout while very short front and rear overhangs push the large diameter tires to the vehicle extremities.

Traditionally, the term mid-engine has been reserved for cars that place the engine and transaxle behind the driver and in front of the rear axles [citation needed], as in the Lamborghini Countach or Ferrari Testarossa, but an engine placed in front of the driver's compartment but fully behind the front axle line also qualifies as mid-engine.

Porsche is following the strategy taken with the outgoing 911 by offering the choice of two standard naturally aspirated, horizontally opposed six - cylinder engines — both running the latest in piezo - guided direct injection and — as 48 years of tradition dictates — mounted aft of the rear axle line.

With aluminum control arms all around and the engine mounted behind the front axle line to optimize weight distribution, the Vantage features cornering limits so prodigious that it's a challenge just to get the dynamic stability control to kick in.

Although front - engined, the 599's masses are configured to replicate, as far as possible, those of a mid-engined car; as much of its V12 as possible is mounted behind the front axle line and its gearbox is in unit with the rear axle to concentrate more weight rearwards.

The reason for the long bonnet wasn't that it had a preposterously long engine — Murray's dream of a V12 was canned early on in favour of a supercharged 5.5 - litre V8 mated to a five - speed auto — but a preposterously powerful one (617bhp, 575 lb ft of torque), sitting way back in the chassis, comfortably behind the axle line.

Credit the low curbweight evenly balanced front to rear, the engine mounted aft the front - axle line, and the nicely tuned coilover suspension.

From the side, the stance isn't quite so blatantly cabin - rearward as that of the SLR, but you're still in no doubt that there's a potent engine set behind the front axle line.

Aston claims that this wild, high - revving V12 has 750bhp and 553 lb ft.. It also sits a full 100 mm lower in the One - 77's chassis than in the DB9's thanks to the dry sump, and it's way behind the front axle line.

Mounted longitudinally under the hood, behind the front axle line, is a turbocharged, direct - injected 2.0 - liter four - cylinder — the same General Motors EcoTEC engine that vibrated our teeth out in the now - gone Pontiac Solstice GXP and Saturn Sky Red Line.

To accommodate front wheel drive - shafts the engine must be placed in front of the front axle line, and the short, low boxer engine has advantages.

The V10 is mounted low and behind the front axle line — the so - called «front mid-engined» layout — and, as in the M5 / M6, drive reaches the rear wheels via BMW's 7 - speed sequential paddle - shift transmission, complete with its shift - speed control and variable - lock differential.

Whereas a rear - wheel drive car, with its longitudinal layout, allows the steering rack to be ahead of the front axle line, which is ideal and would put the brake calipers behind the axle line.

The 6.2 - liter V8, mounted up front behind the front axle line, is related to the engine that AMG places in just about all of its road - going models these days, the M156.

They've also had faithfulness about their handling that, courtesy of their engines hanging out in ahead of the front axle line, stopped well short of being fun.

Placed behind the rear axle line, the car's drive battery and power inverter quite plainly began to adversely affect the precision and security of its limit handling during our track testing.

They had to push back the engine almost behind the front axle line and even the battery had to be moved to the boot floor where the spare wheel is normally placed.

When the engine is in front of the driver, but fully behind the front axle line, the layout is sometimes called a front mid-engine, rear drive, or FMR layout instead of the less - specific term front - engine; and can be considered a subset of the latter.

Additionally, the distinction between FR and FMR is a fluid one, depending on the degree of engine protrusion in front of the front axle line, as manufacturers mount engines as far back in the chassis as possible.

The AMG comes only with a dual - clutch automatic (Speedshift DCT in AMG - speak), integrated with the final drive in the rear of the car and rear - wheel drive; the engine is front - mid-mounted, i.e. ahead of the cabin but behind the front axle line.

The engine has been moved behind the front axle line, giving it a nearly 50 - 50 weight distribution for precise, nimble handling.

The engine has been moved back 5.3 inches and is almost completely behind the front axle line.

And there it would remain to taunt the doubters; how could a true sports car have its engine behind the rear axle line?

Moving the engine mass rearwards, behind the front axle line, results in a front / mid-ship configuration.

The «front midship» engine location sees the compact V6 mounted in the front of the car, but as low and as far back as possible, with most of the block behind the front axle line.

[13]: 95 Most cars of the time had a front beam axle, which forced the engine to be mounted behind the front axle line.