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I think it was because they wanted a compact car.
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BTW, is the claim of Corolla being the firsr "WRC" car with transversely mounted engine being that its the first "WRC"-class car, as opposed to a car made for World Rallying Championship? Considering Evo had same engine layout....but they are technically "Group A", and Impreza always had longitudinal boxers sitting infront of the front axle(Which I believe was the other WRC class car at the time, Focus was next).
FYI McLaren F1 shares the same layout with longitudinal V12 with a transverse gearbox....
Last edited by RacingManiac; 07-01-2009 at 02:06 PM.
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I believe so, about the first WRC-class car that has a tranverse engine. Because if it's the first ever rally car to have a tranverse mounted engine, there many other rally cars that predate the Corolla that had tranverse mounted engines, including cars as different as the Mini or the Stratos.
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An advantage of the longitudinal rather than transverse, peugout's team found that with exactly the same car however with difference in longitudinal and transverse set up was that when they did jumps they found that the car would lift at the the fron or nose dive only way to overcome this was to take of all throttle once in air. The longitudinal set up they found the car twisted in air but this wasnt much of a problem. Hope this helps :-)
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