As Brabham puts it, it " triggered the rear-engined revolution at Indy ".

Brooks was competitive until the end of the season, but in the end he narrowly lost the championship to Jack Brabham with the rear-engined Cooper.

Jack Brabham raised some eyebrows when he took sixth place at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix in a rear-engined Formula 1 Cooper.

The next year,, Brabham and the Cooper works team became the first to win the Formula One World Championship in a rear-engined car.

It was the first of three world championships for Brabham, and the first for an Australian, for Cooper and for a rear-engined car.

The last year of the 2. 5 litre formula produced repeat victories for Jack Brabham and Cooper, and saw Lotus, Porsche, and BRM campaigning rear-engined cars.

The " dream cars " which American automobile manufacturers exhibited at the fair included Cadillac's introduction of its V-16 limousine ; Nash's exhibit had a variation on the vertical ( i. e., paternoster ) parking garage — all the cars were new Nashes ; Lincoln presented its rear-engined " concept car " precursor to the Lincoln-Zephyr, which went on the market in 1936 with a front engine ; Pierce-Arrow presented its modernistic Pierce Silver Arrow for which it used the byline " Suddenly it's 1940!

In the 1960s, when jet airliners were powered by slim, low-bypass engines, many aircraft used the rear-engined, T-tail configuration, such as the BAC One-Eleven, Douglas DC-9 twinjets ; Boeing 727, Hawker Siddeley Trident, Tupolev Tu-154 trijets ; and the paired multi-engined Ilyushin Il-62, and Vickers VC10 whose engines were mounted upon the aft fuselage.

This transmission was later modified with stronger gears and used in the rear-engined 1948 Tucker Sedan as the Tucker Y-1.

The 126 used much of the same mechanical underpinnings and layout as its Fiat 500 rear-engined predecessor with which it shared its wheelbase, but featured an all new bodyshell closely resembling a scaled-down Fiat 127.

The rear-engined formula was powered by a modified Buick powerplant ; this engine and the suspension / brake package were taken from this car and used on the rear-engined sports car, the last Scarab built.

Also, the rear-engined 1960-69 Chevrolet Corvair used a variation of the Y-body through the 1964 model year with a rear swing-axle suspension and a transaxle similar to that found on the 1961-63 Pontiac Tempest.

This rear-engined car used swing axle independent rear suspension, with long near-vertical coilover struts from high mounting points on the space frame chassis.

A small rear-engined design by Pietro Frua at Carrozzeria Ghia, it used the floorpan and engine of the Renault Dauphine sedan.

Ironically, a wave of F1 drivers went to the Speedway in the 1960s, and the mid-engine revolution that was started in F1 by the Cooper team changed the face of the 500 as well ; since Jim Clark's win in 1965, every winner has driven a rear-engined car.

* Foyt is the only driver to win the Indy 500 in both front and rear-engined cars, winning twice with both configurations.

It was the first World Drivers Championship race win for a rear-engined car and also first win for a privateer team in Formula One.

Ferrari kept drivers Hill, Allison and Wolfgang von Trips and added Willy Mairesse to drive the dated front-engined 246s and Richie Ginther, who drove Ferrari's first rear-engined car.

On 12 August 1959, BEA signed a firm, £ 28 million contract for 24 de Havilland DH121 Trident Mark 1 ( C ) " second-generation " jets plus 12 options, making it the launch customer for the world's first commercial T-tailed rear-engined trijet due to enter enter service in spring 1964.

Though Schell retired in the first lap, this marked the first appearance of a rear-engined racer at a Grand Prix event since the end of WWII.

The little known designer behind the first rear-engined Cooper racing car was Owen Maddock, who was employed by Cooper Car Company.

A slightly enlarged version of the F2 Cooper won the first two F1 Grands Prix in 1958, marking the beginning of the rear-engined era in F1.

The Audi 100 would be a commercial success, but it would also be the first of a series of front-engined water-cooled Audi based designs from the Volkswagen group that would, starting with the first Passat in 1973, enable the group to survive and flourish once the European and US markets began to lose their appetites for rear-engined air-cooled models.

CMB introduced two suburban coach routes in 1978, using the first model of second generation rear-engined double-decker ( MCW Metrobus ) in Hong Kong.

Harry Schell's Cooper was the first rear-engined car to start in a championship race.

Cooper also claimed its first Constructor's Championship, the first for a rear-engined car.

It was the first German Grand Prix victory for a rear-engined car since Bernd Rosemeyer's Auto Union Type C took victory in 1936.

These were the first rear-engined double deckers to operate for the Scottish Bus Group.

Measuring only 3. 22 m ( 10 feet 7 inches ) long, it was the first rear-engined Fiat and cost the equivalent of about € 6, 700 or US $ 7300 in today's money ( 590, 000 lire then ).

The Dennis Dominator was Dennis's first rear-engined double-decker bus chassis, it was launched in 1977.

In 1963 Jim Clark won the first victory for a rear-engined Indy Car in his Lotus-Ford.

This was the year the controversial Lotus-Ford rear-engined cars made their first appearance, and had ruffled the Indianapolis establishment.

When Stirling Moss won the 1958 Argentine Grand Prix in Rob Walker's privately-entered Cooper and Maurice Trintignant duplicated the feat in the next race at Monaco, the racing world was stunned and a rear-engined revolution had begun.

With the transition to one-man operation, many manufacturers moved to mid or rear-engined designs, with a single door at the front, or multiple doors.

Porsche also may have feared that the U. S. government would soon ban the sale of rear-engined cars in response to the consumer concern over safety problems with the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair.

Legislation against rear-engined vehicles also did not materialize.

In 1964, after some success in motor-racing, namely with the Porsche 550 Spyder, the company launched the Porsche 911 another air-cooled, rear-engined sports car, this time with a six-cylinder " boxer " engine.

It remains in production ; however, after several generations of revision, current-model 911s share only the basic mechanical concept of a rear-engined, six-cylinder coupé, and basic styling cues with the original car.

The six cubic feet of luggage space behind the back seat was less than in the rear-engined Volkswagen Beetle, but with the seat folded the cargo area tripled to.

With over 21 million manufactured in an air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive configuration, the Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single design platform, worldwide.

Many German officers met their deaths driving heavy, rear-engined Tatras faster around corners than they could handle.

The larger rear-engined Renault 10 followed the success of the R8, and was the last of the rear-engined Renaults.

However, to compete with Alpine's success, other manufacturers developed increasingly special cars, notably the Lancia Stratos which was based closely on the A110's size and rear-engined concept, though incorporating a Ferrari engine.

The rear-engined Simca 1000 was introduced in 1961 with its sporting offspring, the Simca-Abarth in 1963.

The Hillman Husky estate version of the Hillman Imp was unusual in being a rear-engined estate.

The Vespa 400 is a rear-engined microcar, produced by ACMA ( Ateliers de construction de motocycles et d ' automobiles ) in Fourchambault, France, from 1957 to 1961 to the designs of the Italian Piaggio company.

The original Golf Mk1, designed by the Italian Giorgetto Giugiaro, was a front-wheel drive, front-engined replacement for the air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive Volkswagen Beetle.