.......if you're so inclined.........

["couldbecousin"]

Why is your engine in the rear?

[punkdrew]

'Cause it's European?

[punkdrew]

Seriously, if I remember right, Dr Porsche's first V8 --the 1938 prototype-- had a rear mount engine. Unfortunately, it apparently had one thing in common with many of today's SUVs--a nasty tendency to roll @ high speeds.

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Seriously, if I remember right, Dr Porsche's first V8 --the 1938 prototype-- had a rear mount engine. Unfortunately, it apparently had one thing in common with many of today's SUVs--a nasty tendency to roll @ high speeds.

I can't find any info on that car. Is it something he did for Audi??

[TheoK]

Porsche was 

[Diesel]

Why is your engine in the rear?

I'm a car/motorcycle geek........Especially for Porsche cars.
I have a Porsche 911 & all the 911's have the engine in the back of the car behind the rear axle.

[punkdrew]

Seriously, if I remember right, Dr Porsche's first V8 --the 1938 prototype-- had a rear mount engine. Unfortunately, it apparently had one thing in common with many of today's SUVs--a nasty tendency to roll @ high speeds.

I can't find any info on that car. Is it something he did for Audi??

Might've been. I read about it in Phil Dick's last novel, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. Supposedly, Porsche 'borrowed' the idea from a Czech car that was a V-8.

[Scrapheap]

Why is your engine in the rear?

I'm a car/motorcycle geek........Especially for Porsche cars.
I have a Porsche 911 & all the 911's have the engine in the back of the car behind the rear axle.

From a pure engineering standpoint, the rear engine doesn't make much sense. Those cars tend to "push" in the corners. With the olde VW stuff, you could spin the engine/transaxle assembly around, bolt the ring gear to the other side of the pinion, and have a mid engined car with much better ballance.

[Diesel]

Yeah...the way it's so light in the front can be challenging/annoying/dangerous. But it's very consistant in its ways and has improved greatly due to decades of refinment. The 911 will alway be rear engined because Porsche insists that is have a rear seat.............buy a boxster/caymen if you want mid-engine. ....another fine specimin of Porsche.

[Eclair]

Yeah...the way it's so light in the front can be challenging/annoying/dangerous. But it's very consistant in its ways and has improved greatly due to decades of refinment. The 911 will alway be rear engined because Porsche insists that is have a rear seat.............buy a boxster/caymen if you want mid-engine. ....another fine specimin of Porsche.

My ex had a Boxter, but after the fun wore off, he sold it because it was too small to carry luggage or golf clubs and a passenger in on weekends.

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Yeah...the way it's so light in the front can be challenging/annoying/dangerous. But it's very consistant in its ways and has improved greatly due to decades of refinment. The 911 will alway be rear engined because Porsche insists that is have a rear seat.............buy a boxster/caymen if you want mid-engine. ....another fine specimin of Porsche.

Or you can go Formula Vee racing. 

I liked McLaren's solution to the problem. Put the driver in the middle, have 3 seats and fitted luggage!! 

[punkdrew]

Yeah...the way it's so light in the front can be challenging/annoying/dangerous. But it's very consistant in its ways and has improved greatly due to decades of refinment. The 911 will alway be rear engined because Porsche insists that is have a rear seat.............buy a boxster/caymen if you want mid-engine. ....another fine specimin of Porsche.

Or you can go Formula Vee racing. 

I liked McLaren's solution to the problem. Put the driver in the middle, have 3 seats and fitted luggage!! 

OTSS, what's your opinion of Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion car?

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Or you can go Formula Vee racing. 

I liked McLaren's solution to the problem. Put the driver in the middle, have 3 seats and fitted luggage!! 

OTSS, what's your opinion of Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion car?

An idea ahed of its time. If we had been driving something like those, we wouldn't need foreign oil. 

[vodz]

Diesel, how did your family come into such wealth?

[Diesel]

My father was a successful business owner who bought and sold his company at the right times.