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Originally Posted by elchivito
Had what amounted to a sideways 2 stroke motor didn't it? I remember laughing at one in high school. It would be about another 10 years before I'd buy my first 4wd Subie...
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It would've been better had that sideways 2-stroke been mated to FWD, like the Trabby. A year later, Subaru got it right with the Star/FF-1, their first 'normal' FWD design, which set the pattern for nearly all 'Subies' since then.
Rear engines have been kind-of an evolutionary 'dead-end', though the gen II Corvair mostly tamed the quirks. As one writer summed it up, the Corvair was "the kinds of cars we should have had in the '70s, but didn't!" -
IMHO, maybe not with rear engines, but with the size, style & innovation of the Corvair, instead of the overweight, underpowered, thirsty behemoths American manufacturers were cranking out.
Happy Motoring, Mark