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Overview and introduction

1.1 Vehicle categories

1.1.1 Layouts
This section is a general introduction to the car as a whole. Over the years
many unusual designs have been tried, some with more success than others.
The most common is, of course, a rectangular vehicle with a wheel at each
corner! To take this rather simple idea further, we can categorize vehicles in
different ways. For example, by layout ( Figs 1.1–1.4 ), such as:
front engine driving the front wheels
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front engine driving the rear wheels
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front engine driving all four wheels
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rear engine driving the rear wheels
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mid-engine driving the rear wheels
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mid-engine driving all four wheels.
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The following paragraphs and bullet points highlight features of the vehicle
layouts mentioned above. Common abbreviations for these layouts are given
in Table 1.1 .

Figure 1.1 Front-engine, front-wheel drive Figure 1.2 Front-engine, rear-wheel drive

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