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A front-mounted engine describes the placement of an automobile engine in front of or on the front axle.

This layout is the most traditional form and remains a popular, practical design. The engine which takes up a great deal of space is packaged in a location passengers and luggage typically would not use. The main deficit is weight distribution—the heaviest component is at one end of the vehicle. Car handling is not ideal, but usually predictable.

Examples

FR layout

Front engine, rear wheel drive

FF layout

Front engine, front wheel drive

FA layout

Front engine, four-wheel drive
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Layouts: FF, FMR, FR, MF, RMR, RR, F4, M4, R4
Engine positioning: Front-engine, Mid-engine, Rear-engine
Drive: Front-wheel drive, Rear-wheel drive, Four-wheel drive, Six-wheel drive
automobile (from Greek auto, self and Latin mobile moving, a vehicle that moves itself rather than being moved by another vehicle or animal) or motor car (usually shortened to just car) is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor.
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The internal combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of fuel and an oxidizer (typically air) occurs in a confined space called a combustion chamber. This exothermic reaction creates gases at high temperature and pressure, which are permitted to expand.
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axle is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear. In some cases the axle may be fixed in position with a bearing or bushing sitting inside the hole in the wheel or gear to allow the wheel or gear to rotate around the axle.
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Weight distribution is the apportioning of weight within a vehicle, especially cars, airplanes, and watercraft.

Weight distribution affects a variety of vehicle characteristics, including handling, acceleration, traction, and component life.
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Car handling and vehicle handling is a description of the way wheeled vehicles perform transverse to their direction of motion, particularly during cornering and swerving. It also includes their stability when moving in a straight line.
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FR, or front-engine, rear wheel drive means a layout where the engine is in the front of the vehicle and drive wheels at the rear. This was the traditional automobile layout for most of the 20th century.
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Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and the Flivver) was an automobile produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile came into popular usage.
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Mercedes-Benz S-Class is a series of large luxury flagship sedans produced by Mercedes-Benz, now a division of Daimler AG. The S-Class, a product of nine lines of Mercedes-Benz models dating since the mid-1950s, is the world's best-selling luxury flagship sedan.
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FF, or front-engine, front-wheel drive layout places both the engine and driven wheels at the front of the vehicle. This layout is typically chosen for its compact packaging, allowing the rest of the vehicle to be designed more flexibly.
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Mini is a small car that was produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors from 1959 to 2000. The most popular British-made car, it has since been replaced by the New MINI which was launched in 2001.
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Ford Taurus is currently a full-size, front-wheel drive or all wheel drive automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in North America. Initially a mid-size car, it was introduced in December 1985 as a 1986 model, replacing the rear-wheel drive Ford LTD.
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Four-wheel drive, 4WD, or 4x4 ("four by four") is a four-wheeled vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all four wheels to receive power from the engine simultaneously.
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Jeep

Division of Chrysler
Founded 1941
Headquarters Toledo, Ohio, USA

Industry Automobile
Products Sport Utility vehicles
Parent Chrysler Holding LLC
Website www.jeep.com

Jeep is an automobile marque (and registered trademark) of Chrysler.
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Audi Quattro. For the Audi all wheel drive system, see Quattro (all wheel drive system).


The Audi Quattro is a famous and historically significant road and rally car produced by the German maker Audi.
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In automobile design layout is the place where both the engine and driven wheels are.

Types

Front-engine, front-wheel drive, layout places both the engine and driven wheels at the front of the vehicle.
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FF, or front-engine, front-wheel drive layout places both the engine and driven wheels at the front of the vehicle. This layout is typically chosen for its compact packaging, allowing the rest of the vehicle to be designed more flexibly.
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The FMR layout, standing for front mid-engine, rear wheel drive, is a layout of an automobile that places the engine in the front, like the FR layout, but pushed back enough that the engine's center of gravity is to the rear of the front axle.
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FR, or front-engine, rear wheel drive means a layout where the engine is in the front of the vehicle and drive wheels at the rear. This was the traditional automobile layout for most of the 20th century.
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MF or Mid-engine, Front wheel drive layout is one in which the front wheels are driven by an engine placed just behind them, in front of the passenger compartment. In contrast to the front-engined FF layout the center of gravity of the engine is behind the front axle.
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RMR or Rear Mid-engine, Rear-wheel drive layout is one in which the rear wheels are driven by an engine placed just in front of them, behind the passenger compartment. In contrast to the rear-engined RR layout, the center of mass of the engine is in front of the rear axle.
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RR, or Rear-engine, Rear-wheel drive layout places both the engine and drive wheels at the rear of the vehicle. In contrast to the RMR layout, however, the center of gravity of the engine itself is actually past the rear axle.
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In automobile design layout is the place where both the engine and driven wheels are.

Types

Front-engine, front-wheel drive, layout places both the engine and driven wheels at the front of the vehicle.
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A mid-engine layout describes the placement of an automobile engine between the rear and front axles. Another term for this is mid-ship, though that term is used mostly by British and Japanese manufacturers.
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In automobile design, a rear-engine design layout places both the engine and drive wheels at the rear of the vehicle. The center of gravity of the engine itself is actually past the rear axle.
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Front-wheel drive is a form of engine/transmission layout used in motor vehicles, where the engine drives the front wheels only. Most modern front-wheel drive vehicles feature a transverse engine, rather than the conventional longitudinal engine arrangement generally found in
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Layouts: FF, FMR, FR, MF, RMR, RR, F4, M4, R4
Engine positioning: Front-engine, Mid-engine, Rear-engine
Drive: Front-wheel drive, Rear-wheel drive, Four-wheel drive, Six-wheel drive
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Four-wheel drive, 4WD, or 4x4 ("four by four") is a four-wheeled vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all four wheels to receive power from the engine simultaneously.
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Six wheel drive, 6WD, and 6x6 are terms used to describe a six-wheeled vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all six wheels to receive power from the engine simultaneously.
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