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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In Kent's aorta model most of the tears are transverse, or across the artery, in a section called the isthmus, and they start on the intima, or the inner layer of the aorta.

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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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These are propellers mounted in transverse tunnels in the hull, to help position the craft and hold her stable while alongside a rig.

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