Front drivers, was: <VV>Used to be Novas and Vairs

[Bill Elliott]

Your "logic" from your political arguments is bleeding over here... are 
you really trying to say that there is no advantage of a 2" high tunnel 
over a 10" high, 12" wide one? I'd say there is some significant 
advantage there...

A great example for you... a Mini Cooper versus an MG Midget. Both cars 
are of a similar size and weight... and use the same engine. The 
differences in packaging is astounding in the FWD Mini over the front 
engine RWD Midget. Add two more passengers to start with...

Bill

airvair wrote:

>Then what is that hump down the middle of almost every front driver out
>there? Oh, I forgot. They lowered the floorpan so low that they needed
>somewhere to run the exhaust pipe. LOL Anyway, that blows your assertion
>about a tunnel. Bottom line: front drive does NOT assure a tunnel-less
>passenger compartment. Hence not much advantage there.
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>-Mark
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>Padgett wrote:
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>>>>Having said all that, I'm sure the main reason front engine/FWD came
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>>>about was strictly packaging - especially for small cars.
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>>It helps from a manufacturing
>>standpoint also - like the Corvair, you just have a power module, not bits
>>at both ends and there is no driveshaft tunnel needed.
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>>Padgett
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