A rear-engine, front-wheel-drive layout is one in which the engine is between or behind the rear wheels, and drives the front wheels via a driveshaft, the complete reverse of a conventional front-engi
Framed illustration of the Dymaxion car.
Dymaxion car
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With such a vehicle at our disposal, felt that human travel, like that of birds, would no longer be confined to airports, roads, and other bureaucratic boundaries, and that autonomous free-thinking hu
Rear-engine, front-wheel-drive layout
…an extremely uncommon drive layout throughout automotive history, used only by a few prototypes and concept cars, such as Buckminster Fuller's 1933 Dymaxion car, which was able to turn within its wheelbase thanks to rear-wheel steering, and the 1947 Gregory Sedan, held at the Lane Motor Museum. The layout has…
Dymaxion replica (2010)
The Dymaxion car, c. 1933, artist Diego Rivera shown entering the car, carrying coat
The Dymaxion Corporation factory at the defunct Locomobile dynamometer building, Tongue Pointe, Bridgeport, Connecticut
The Dymaxion Prototype Two on display at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada (2007)