There are a few reasons to put the engine at the back of a car instead of the front or middle. Front-wheel drive is, relatively speaking, a modern phenomenon for vehicles, so the first reason was to ...

Some of the weirdest motorcycles of the past tried to reinvent the frame-mounted engine, driven rear wheel layout. One of them was the Killinger und Freund’s ‘Peace Dove’ motorcycle. In the 1930s, the ...

Rear-engined car models have been rare across automotive history, but many of them are historic and iconic. It's important to understand the difference between mid- and rear-engine placement and how ...

As Mini's parent company BMW moves closer to unveiling production versions of its Neue Klasse, the name for its next generation of electric vehicles, it's becoming clear that single-motor cars on this ...