<VV> Quick read - Flat four engine in front, driving rear wheels.

[Sethracer at aol.com]

Flat-four engine is the heart of Subaru, Toyota  sports coupes
By JIM HENRY on  3/02/2011
 
Subaru is  proud that Toyota picked a Subaru boxer engine for the 
rear-drive _sports  car_ (#)  the brands will share starting next year.  "Form 
follows function,"  said Toshio Masuda, Subaru's senior project general manager 
for the  Subaru-Toyota joint venture. "The boxer engine is lightweight, 
compact and has a  low center of gravity," he said at the Geneva motor show. 
Masuda said the boxer  engine's flat profile allowed the partners to place the 
engine's center of  gravity "this high," gesturing at his knees. That 
placement is almost five  inches lower than where a conventional I4 would have been, 
and lower in the car  than any car this side of supercars such as Ferrari, 
he said. The low center of  gravity produces better handling, he said. 



Now  if we could only get them to put the engine in the rear, like our 
Corvairs!  





Seth  Emerson

C's the Day! - Corvair, Camaro, Corvette
San Jose,  CA