Some Idiots I Work With Don't Believe In Front- Mid Engine Layouts. Help me out here, pals. While I love my co- workers here on the USS Jalopnuts, it has come to my attention that at least two of my co- workers are drooling simpletons who can’t wrap their puny, moist, palpitating brains around the idea that the front- mid engine layout is a thing. They’re idiots, right?

Let me clarify what we’re arguing about here: I’m of the belief that, when classifying a car by its engine position, there’s four main categories: front- engine, front- mid engine, rear- mid engine, and rear- engined. Raph and Mike, sitting right next to me, fingers wedged deep in the warm, damp recesses of their nostrils, maintain that the only categories are front- engine, mid- engine, and rear- engine, and cars that I would consider front- mid, they claim are simply front. They’re fools. Here’s my criteria: if an engine is between the axles, it’s in the mid category, and if it’s front of the midline of the car, it’s front- mid, and if it’s rear of the midline of the car, it’s rear- mid. An engine forward of the front axle is a front engine, and one behind the rear is rear- engined.

Simple! Raph and Mike simply don’t think a car with the engine in the front but behind the front axle is worth differentiating from a car with the engine hung way out in front of the axle, and that makes them fools. There are real handling and dynamic advantages to a front- mid layout. I own a front- mid car, a Reliant Scimitar GTE and I really like that it’s front- mid, and not just because the spare tire goes up front. Subaru worked hard to make the BRZ a front- mid car, because they know it’s great.

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The Citroën DS is one of the rare front- mid, front- wheel drive cars, and it’s great. Corvettes have had this layout, Maseratis, Mercedes, Morgans, Honda S2.

Plus, look—if you don’t believe in front- mid, how can you make a distinction between a mid- rear car and a rear- engine car? You can’t, Raph. You can’t. So I’m reaching out to you, dashing readers, because, collectively, you’re the smartest people I know when it comes to crap like this. So, please, tell these morons that front- mid is a real, distinct, and worthy layout.

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