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rear engined - no googling

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    #32
    peasant
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    The Puch Haflinger (with the engine from the Fiat 500)


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    #33
    peasant
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    SteveC wrote: »
    I would have thought mid-engined / rear engined = put the pic-i-nic basket in the front and were the same thing?

    noo..nooo ...

    Mid engined = proper sports car

    rear engined = usually cheap family car of some vintage

    both of the above with the exception of Porsche 911, 912 or 356 :D


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    #34
    Max_Damage
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    SteveC wrote: »
    I would have thought mid-engined / rear engined = put the pic-i-nic basket in the front and were the same thing?

    trabantcabrio3ri2.jpg


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    #35
    Steve
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    sorry....:o


    /hides in the corner and sulks.


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    #36
    peasant
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    Max_Damage wrote: »
    trabantcabrio3ri2.jpg

    ringgg,dinggg,ding ding ...Trabant engine ...(no I'm not going to start a two sroke no googling thread now :D)


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    #37
    Anan1
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    VH wrote: »
    define rear-engined!
    Behind the rear wheels. (I know there'll be lots of borderline cases!)


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    #38
    VH
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    Anan1 wrote: »
    Behind the rear wheels. (I know there'll be lots of borderline cases!)
    in that case i don't know of any apart from the beetle and the mx5 :)


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    #39
    ninty9er
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    Lambo Countach??


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    #40
    landydef
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    -karmann ghia-


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    #41
    Biro
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    Metro 6R4 was mid-engined, and no Ferrari was rear engined to my knowledge. Clio V6 also mid-engined. Very few rear engined cars mentioned in this thread.
    Porsche 959, but some argue that's a 911 derivative.


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    #42
    blackbox
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    VH wrote: »
    in that case i don't know of any apart from the beetle and the mx5 :)

    NOPE - Mazda MX5 definitely front engined.

    :eek:


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    #43
    macplaxton
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    What are them Ruskie things that look like a NSU Prinz.....Zaphoret? or summat like it. I'll throw in the Renault 10 as well.

    Do I get anything for a twin engined (one front/one rear) Mini Moke?

    Hmm, it was more of a continental habit putting the engine at that end.

    Hang on, having read Ralph Nader's book "Unsafe at any speed" some years back. What about the Chevvy Corvair?


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    #44
    Notch000
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    mcwhirter wrote: »
    Mg metro 6r4

    was this not a purpose built racer ? and N/A here or else include hundreds of other race cars

    This was a rear engined road car
    Lancia Stratos


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    #45
    Biro
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    Notch000 wrote: »
    was this not a purpose built racer ? and N/A here or else include hundreds of other race cars

    This was a rear engined road car
    Lancia Stratos

    Nope, the Stratos was mid-engined. So was the Metro.
    People are lumping in the mid and rear engined cars together. There are feck all rear-engined. We should comprise the list in the OP's 1st thread to look. Nearly every other suggestion were mid. With one or two front engined!


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    #46
    itarumaa
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    I can think of,

    Fiat 500,600,850,133 and 126,
    Vw Transporter/caravelle
    Skoda 110-130 sedan or coupe
    Vw Beetle
    Smart
    Corvair
    Porsche 911


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    #47
    TigerTim
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    Thought my MK1 MR2 was but I quess it is mid engined.

    Had a Simca Rally 2 in the Eighties which had the engine sitting behind the gearbox.

    T


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    #48
    S.I.R
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    hmmm tabolt sunbeam rally cars had the rear engine...

    subarus very first car ( which name slips my tounge ) was r/e

    mr2's, most of the 91x porshe range

    vw vans...


    the abarth 500 let alone 500's where rear

    beetles ofcourse...

    lancia had a delta, with a s/c and turbo that was mid rear



    the ford rs200 had a rear engine also i believe... though i haven't seen one in years... literally.


    all the lambo range as with Bugatti's, ferarris etc.

    metro had a mid engine but i fear it isnt rear...


    oh and a mate had a diahatsu charde with a celica engine in the booth but that doesn't count does it ?


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    #49
    Biro
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    I must be on everyone's ignore list or something, so maybe someone else will post this up!

    MID-ENGINE does not equal REAR-ENGINE!
    No Ferrari or Lambo were rear, Bugatti, Ford, Lancia - none were rear. Mid or front only. MR2 = Mid engined, Rear wheel drive 2 seater.


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