Sentence examples for drive layout from inspiring English sources
The Hybrid Tourer combines Subaru's traditional (in this case petrol) boxer engine/all-wheel drive layout with two electric motors – one at the front and one at the back.
The car will be the lightest Lincoln, and although its standard front-wheel drive layout is not as sporty as a rear-drive configuration would be, Lincoln will expand the Zephyr's performance capabilities with optional all-wheel drive.
Keeping all that power and torque in check is the same old aluminum Space Frame chassis, based on the Volkswagen MLP component matrix (modular longitudinal platform), which allows the Volkswagen group to design several cars with a longitudinal front engine format in either front-engine or four-wheel drive layout using similar components in an effort to keep production costs low.
The FIA Group B regulations steered the concept towards a mid-engine, four-wheel drive layout, with a Jaguar V12 engine as the power source.
The front-drive layout provided maximimum interior space in a mini package.
The 40-mile trip made clear the contrast between the front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout of the new 500 and the rear-engine, rear-drive originals.
The four-seat ELR will have front-wheel drive, not the sportier rear-drive layout of the CTS and ATS sedans.
In part, that's because many enthusiasts disqualify the Acura for its basic front-drive layout, which does handicap performance against better-balanced rear-drive sport sedans.
And the front-drive layout results in enough understeer -- a reluctance to change direction -- that the driver must continually make midcourse corrections.
In contrast, the Chevette had a conventional front-engine, rear-drive layout, complete with an awkward driveline tunnel that robbed passenger room.
But the front-engine, rear-drive layout has long defined the Corvette, and this car, like its C6 predecessor, may well show its taillights to cars with specs that more closely conform to what is considered state of the art.
