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Originally Posted by Pandamasque
What would be the point of that? Reiter did it because they were dealing with a weird Audi drivetrain designed to be packaged in the front overhang of an FWD car. Whereas the Lotus-Toyota V6 package has been used like this in a number of models, including a GTE car, albeit underdeveloped.
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According to some designers a tranverse mid-engine isn't as good a longitudinal one, because the front "face" of the engine runs at an higher temperature than the rear one, thus causing some problems and/or limiting its potential.