rear-engined

"As a child," says Foster, "I lived in a fantasy world inhabited by these cars and their legendary drivers: Bernd Rosemeyer in the rear-engined Auto Union and Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz, racing at Nurburgring, Tripoli and Monaco."

Norman Foster's back-to-front car Jonathan Glancey 2010

Some of you will be surprised to learn that Porsche, makers of beautifully balanced rear-engined sports cars, even make an off-roader.

Car review: Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid Martin Love 2010

Volkswagen E-UpFor several years, Volkswagen has been showing models based on its original Up concept of 2007, a rear-engined four-cylinder, four-seat hatchback the company said could replace its New Beetle as popular and cheap transportation for the masses.

2009 Frankfurt Motor Show: Audi and Volkswagen electric cars 2009

  Volkswagen E-UpFor several years, Volkswagen has been showing models based on its original Up concept of 2007, a rear-engined four-cylinder, four-seat hatchback the company said could replace its New Beetle as popular and cheap transportation for the masses.

2009 Frankfurt Motor Show: Audi and Volkswagen electric cars 2009

An attempt to revive the carmaker after World War II with a sophisticated, rear-engined V-8 model failed after three prototypes were built.

The Forgotten Luxury Car 2006

When we first saw the Up at the 2007 Frankfurt motor show, it was an innovative, rear-engined, rear-driven hatchback, a configuration that maximised cabin space and economy.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andrew English 2011

When Jim Clark of Scotland won the 500 in 1965, the first non-American to accomplish the feat in decades, he was celebrated at home for having stormed an American bastion in his lightweight, rear-engined Lotus-Ford, and for consigning the front-engined, Offenhauser-powered roadsters that had ruled at Indianapolis to the Speedway museum.

NYT > Home Page By JOHN F. BURNS 2011

The earlier Lotus 18 was the car that started the rear-engined era for the legendary Norfolk outfit and famous examples competing include those raced in their heydays by both Clark and Surtees.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Montezemolo had inherited a debt-ridden Ferrari, still mourning the eponymous founder, Enzo, who died in 1988, with an ageing range of unreliable, rear-engined cars.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andrew English 2011

Montezemolo had inherited a debt-ridden Ferrari, still mourning the eponymous founder, Enzo, who died in 1988, with an ageing range of unreliable, rear-engined cars.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andrew English 2011