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This is the first vehicle built with the so-called MQB, which stands for Modularer Querbaukasten, or "modular transverse toolbox, " for small to midsize, front-drive, transverse-engine cars.
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The Veloster is seriously snouty, a consequence of it being a front-drive car with a transverse-mounted engine (the Veloster is very much a mechanical clone of the new Elantra, complete with torsion-beam rear suspension).
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As engineered products, Moto Guzzis are handcuffed to the brand's distinctive and distinctly questionable transverse 90-degree V-twin engine, a configuration that reaches back to the 1960s.
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