My A2B Hybrid 24 looked cool, despite the lithium battery pack hanging above its rear wheel.
More than 5, 000 Mini Classics are being recalled amid safety fears over rear wheel bearings.
Caterham driver Giedo van der Garde's left rear wheel came off entirely and he also had to retire.
The inquest at Hastings Magistrate's Court heard his front wheel had touched the rear wheel of another rider.
With a 415-hp V8 engine, the SS is the first rear wheel drive performance sports sedan in 17 years.
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Each front and rear wheel can be independently steered, so that the rover can turn in place 360 degrees.
The fitted tension in the lower fuselage, the sucked-in, negative spaces ahead of the rear wheel arches, are spectacular.
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The date code is molded on the bicycles' left rear frame, at the point of attachment of the rear wheel.
To the rear, the full width bumper flows into the rear wheel arches to emphasise the LF-CC's broad, powerful stance.
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This reinforces the overall design philosophy behind the vehicle with a "dropping line" that extends from the headlamp to the rear wheel arch.
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On the opening day, McRae badly damaged his left rear wheel when his Ford Focus found a ditch on the sixth special stage.
He had already shifted the center of gravity closer to the rear wheel, but it became imperative that the Swift encourage an upright posture.
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But Italian Capello had a 43rd birthday to forget when his left rear wheel came off at 160mph, sending him into a tyre wall.
She excitedly speaks of the smart ebike, a bicycle with a 250-watt electric hub motor in its rear wheel, launching as part of a pilot program in 2013.
The keypad is located above the rear wheel.
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Sorger took a page from his days as a pilot and applied a weight and balance equation to the design, shifting a larger percentage of the load toward the rear wheel, which improved both handling and stability dramatically.
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Further developing a design form initiated on the LF-LC concept and the high-performance LFA, the sharply sculpted form of an airflow regulating fin flows from underneath the side of the car and upwards through the rear wheel arch.
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Its first grainy, wide-angle images showed its own left rear wheel parked on the surface of Gale Crater near the equator of Mars, close to the foot of a three-mile-high mountain it aims to explore in months to come.
Owners of models in the affected VIN range are being informed by letter from Wednesday and are asked to contact their local MG Rover dealer, who will arrange for the rear wheel bearings to be replaced free of charge.
The signature piece in this car is the all-wheel-drive system, which can shunt most of the engine torque to the rear wheels as necessary and will direct more torque to the outside rear wheel in a corner to help null out understeer.
It is, for example, equipped with a rear-wheel steering system (Precision All-Wheel Steer) that allows the rear wheels to be pointed, independently, up to 2 degrees of toe-angle adjustment in either direction (in or out, negative or positive), for 4 degrees of articulation.
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To accomplish its goal, Jaguar engineered the all-wheel-drive system to behave like rear-wheel drive most of the time.
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It also gets 19 mpg in the city with rear-wheel drive, according to GM.
The 616-horsepower Spider has a 3.8-litre V8 engine and 7-speed dual-clutch transmission with rear-wheel drive.
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The 2007 Ford Interceptor concept was a modern interpretation of an All-American rear-wheel-drive muscle car.
"We were well on the path to making a rear-wheel-drive global platform, " says Mays.
Luxury cars, with a few exceptions such as Audis and the Cadillac Deville, are rear-wheel drive.
In the case of the 330xi, one answer lies in the aforementioned rear-wheel-drive feel.
This performance sedan takes GM back to its roots, reviving a rear-wheel-drive tradition absent for 17 years.
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