As we see in the source above, there is a statement saying that the placement of the engine of a motorized vehicle would affect its directionality. This however is incorrect and will prove it by 2 arguments in the paragraphs below. For starters, an engine can even be sideways in a car. For example, in my father’s 2011 Nissan Sentra, the Inline 4 engine is mounted sideways, to ease the accommodation of the CVT transmission for front-wheel drive. However, that doesn’t limit where the traction can be on the car, as my mother’s 2017 Ford Escape has All Wheel Drive, meaning that even though the engine is sideways, the power can be distributed to the engine directionally. Secondly, engine placement does not affect in which direction the car goes due to how engines work. The engine does not magically drag the car around due to it being in the front. The way that the car is propelled by the engine is through torque being transferred by many mechanical systems into the wheels. The wheels then, using grip turn and propel the car forwards, deciding in which direction the car will go. Engine placement can also affect the performance of a car’s cornering speed due to where the center of mass is. For example, the best performing cars in the world are actually mid/rear-engined, due to the fact that the weight of the engine’s weight can give more traction through increased friction. Rear engines can also be practical, such as in most busses. Most busses actually have engines at the rear so rear traction is more easily achievable due to a shortened transmission from the engine to the differential. This actually proves that engine placement nor engine directionality matters for how the car can be propelled by the wheels. Therefore this statement, is quite simply, fucking retarded.