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No such thing as "front mid" outside of marketing...
Mid-engine cars have the engine behind the driver and in front of the rear axle.
Front-engine cars have the engine in front of the driver.
Of course any well-designed FR sports car will have the engine situated well aft relative to the wheelbase to get decent weight distribution and minimize polar moment. That's a given. But nothing magical happens when some arbitrary part of the engine falls behind the front wheel centerline. My 240Z was classic FR sports car, so was my S2000. Same damn configuration, *classic* front-engine rear-drive sports cars! Despite the Z's having a cylinder and a half of the engine in front of the front wheels while the S2k's engine resides entirely behind. They're both the same configuration, which is a fundamentally *different* from mid-engined cars like Lotus Europa, Porsche Cayman.
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