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Originally Posted by switchlanez
Front-mounted tranny for RWD is news to me (always changed tranny oil at the rear of my FR/MR cars). What are the pros and cons of a front-mounted vs. rear-mounted RWD transmission?
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What, do you only work on Ferrari's for a living? LOL! j/k
Its rare to have the transmission completely located in the rear, there is a short list on Wikipedia of Front engine, RWD cars with rear mounted transaxles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaxle
Most RWD cars have the transmission up front with the engine, and a differential in the rear.
But in the case of this Subaru/Toyota venture, they already had a drivetrain layout that would work fine for RWD, there was no need to invent an entirely new drivetrain. All they did was get a transmission that deleted the front differential and center differential from Subaru's All-wheel drivetrain and kept the rest.
I figured this was all common knowledge though... Guess there aren't too many Subaru folks here.
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Originally Posted by Marrk
I'm sure we have all seen "front-mid-engine" cars with the engine placed fully aft of the front axle. I think I was hoping to see this on the FT-86.
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One of the reasons a boxer motor can't go any farther back is due to the width of the motor. It would completely intrude on footwell space if it moved any farther back, and the car would have to be a 2 seater with a really long hood to accommodate it.
Thats kind of what I hoped for from the start, but they kept a lot of practicality with this car in place and didn't move it that far back.