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Originally Posted by danwatt
Had to go to one of the body shops today to fix their color mixing computer. Saw a c6 corvette that had the unibody lifted off the driveline/subframe. Looked very odd... the transmission was in the back of the car coupled to the differential... driveshaft was just an extension of the crankshaft i guess. I had to do a double take when I saw it. I guess it is designed that way for better weight distribution.
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Transmission and differential as a unit is a Transaxle. Not a new idea at all. Many race cars in the 50's, and possibly earlier, (too lazy to look it up) employed this. I had an Alfa GTV6 in 1985 with this arrangement.
regards,
Mark