Among gearheads, an engine at the front, a manual gearbox in the middle, and the drive going to the rear wheels is the quintessential driver's car. Modern all-wheel-drive cars can handle impressively, ...

In 1959, the original Mini Cooper popularized an engineering breakthrough that nearly every automaker uses today.

You would think that after 140 years of producing automobiles, the industry would have settled on a basic layout. After all, bicycles don't have heaps of alternative ...