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Which historical layout was used by the Volkswagen Beetle?

  • A.Front engine front wheel drive, which became the dominant layout for small cars during the nineteen seventies
  • B.Mid engine
  • C.Front engine rear wheel drive with a transaxle, which places the gearbox at the rear to improve the balance
  • D.Rear engine rear wheel drive

Answer: D

The Beetle placed an air cooled flat four engine behind the rear axle driving the rear wheels, which gave excellent traction on poor surfaces and allowed a simple flat floor. The penalty was a strong rearward weight bias producing snap oversteer at the limit. Porsche has retained the layout in the 911 while progressively engineering out the handling problem. Checking the units of each quantity catches a wrong formula before the arithmetic begins.

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