Why Front-Wheel Drive?

750015

02/01/1975

Event
1975 Automotive Engineering Congress and Exposition
Authors Abstract
Content
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:
  1. 1.
    Better use of available space
  2. 2.
    Production costs at levels competitive with other design arrangements
  3. 3.
    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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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/750015
Pages
16
Citation
Tronville, P., "Why Front-Wheel Drive?," SAE Technical Paper 750015, 1975, https://doi.org/10.4271/750015.
Additional Details
Publisher
Published
Feb 1, 1975
Product Code
750015
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English