The world's three major automotive architectures

Front-drive automobile architecture, rear-drive automobile architecture, four-wheel drive automobile architecture.

1, front-drive automobile architecture: refers to the power of the car by the engine to drive the front wheels, the wheels drive the car forward architecture. The advantage is that the engine position is low, the center of gravity of the entire body is low, which is conducive to the handling performance of the car, the disadvantage is that the engine power can not be sufficiently transmitted to the wheels, the power output of the wheels is not enough.

2, rear-drive automobile architecture: refers to the car's power by the engine to drive the rear wheels, the wheels drive the car forward architecture. The advantage is that the power of the engine can be fully transferred to the wheels, the power output of the wheels has been improved; the disadvantage is that the engine position is high, the center of gravity of the entire body is high, not conducive to the handling performance of the car.

3, four-wheel drive automobile architecture: refers to the power of the car by the engine to drive the front wheels and rear wheels at the same time, the wheels drive the car forward architecture. The advantage is that the power of the engine can be fully transferred to the wheels, the power output of the wheels to improve, in addition to good handling performance; the disadvantage is that the car is heavier, higher fuel consumption.