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Why Front-Wheel Drive?
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Abstract
Front wheel drive has found wide acceptance and increased popularity during recent years in medium and medium-small class European cars. A frequent design configuration is the FWD with transverse front engine.
The principal factors in this choice are:
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Better use of available space
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Production costs at levels competitive with other design arrangements
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Ease of obtaining derivative models from basic cars.
The technical/functional aspects of the FWD will not be discussed here except some reference needed to explain otherwise uncomprehensible concepts.
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Tronville, P., "Why Front-Wheel Drive?," SAE Technical Paper 750015, 1975, https://doi.org/10.4271/750015.Also In
References
- Cordiano E. “Autobianchi Primula Transverse Power Plant” SAE Paper 670002 Automotive Engineering Congress Detroit 1967
- Cornacchia F. “Behaviour of body structure in front collision.” XIII Fisita Congress Bruxelles 1970