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N-Wheeled Vehicles

Douglas Self,

It was powered the Scott Company's own water-cooled 578 cc twin-cylinder two-stroke engine driving through a three-speed gearbox to the offside rear wheel only, by shaft; there was no differential, and no reverse gear. Left: More views of the Vietnamese five-wheeled car: 2016 This article(dated 15 May 2015) when translated, says the builder is a Mr. Nguyen Van Thang, who apparently has no formal engineering or mechanical training. Add to this that if the rear wheels HAD to be steerable, to get an acceptable turning radius with the axle layout, applying power to them as well is going to give you all the difficulties of front-wheel drive technology- specifically a need for constant-velocity joints.

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