According to the engine position and driving form, what kinds of cars can be divided into?

According to the layout of the engine on the car body, it can be divided into three types: front engine, middle engine and rear engine. According to the driving form, it is divided into front drive, rear drive, four-wheel drive and multi-bridge drive. The whole vehicle can be divided into front drive, front and rear drive, front four-wheel drive, middle and rear drive and rear drive.

Compared with other driving forms of two-wheel drive, front-rear drive has great advantages. When the vehicle starts, accelerates or climbs on a good road, the adhesion pressure of the driving wheel increases, and the traction force is obviously better than that of the predecessor.

At the same time, the front and rear drive vehicles also have good handling stability and ride comfort, which is conducive to prolonging the service life of tires. In addition, the arrangement of front and rear drive makes the engine, clutch and transmission of the vehicle close to the cab, which simplifies the arrangement of the control mechanism and the structure of the steering mechanism and is more convenient for the maintenance and repair of the vehicle.

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The advantages of front-wheel drive are: it is easier to arrange the interior space of the car, the mechanical structure is simple and the cost is cheap, thus saving the cost. Today, more than 60% cars use this type of drive, and 95% cars below mid-level cars use front-wheel drive.

The disadvantage of front-wheel drive is that the front wheel is responsible for driving and steering the vehicle, and the front axle is overloaded, which makes the front center of gravity of the front-wheel drive vehicle move forward due to inertia when turning, and it is easy to break through the ground adhesion of the front wheel, while the rear wheel has no power, which will lead to insufficient steering, which is also commonly known as "pushing the head".

The rear wheel drives the car, and the power of the engine is transmitted to the rear wheel through the transmission shaft, thus pushing the car forward. Rear-wheel drive is a relatively traditional drive form, and the earliest cars were basically rear-wheel drive. In rear wheel drive, the rear wheel is the driving wheel for driving the whole vehicle, and the front wheel is the steering wheel, which means that the rear wheel "pushes" the front wheel to drive the vehicle forward.