Peugeot also had further success in international rallying, most notably in the World Rally Championship with the four-wheel-drive turbo-charged versions of the Peugeot 205, and more recently the Peugeot 206.

Prototype versions were assembled with four-wheel-drive ( Type 86 ) and different engines, but none offered a significant increase in performance or capability over the existing Type 82 and the designs were never implemented.

The fifth generation Cuore received the chassis code L700, with L710 being used for four-wheel-drive versions.

Export versions, equipped with the 1-liter EJ engine as first seen in the previous generation, are L251, while L260 is used on four-wheel-drive versions ( for the Japanese domestic market only ).

As usual four-wheel-drive versions received a different model code ( L285 ).

In Japan, four-wheel-drive versions were also available, fitted with the carbureted 1. 5-and fuel-injected 1. 6-liter gasoline engines, or 1. 8-liter diesel.

The cars were available through any AMC dealer, but less than 200 conversions were manufactured ( Concord and four-wheel-drive Eagle versions ).

Both rear-wheel-drive ( 4x2 ) and four-wheel-drive ( 4x4 ) versions were made in quantity.

These versions introduced Mitsubishi's Super Select four-wheel-drive system ( known as Active-Trac in the United States ), with an electronic transfer shift that could split power between both axles without the need to stop the car.

When the German military took delivery of the first vehicles, they immediately put them to the test on-and off-road in snow and ice to test their capability at handling European winters ; several four-wheel-drive vehicles were used as reference points.

Variants of this starter design were used on most rear-and four-wheel-drive vehicles produced by Chrysler Corporation from 1962 through 1987.

13, 140 were produced until it was replaced in 1990 by a four-wheel-drive version, the Sierra Sapphire RS Cosworth 4x4, of which 12, 250 were built.

The B14 Sunny and Sentra appeared in 1994 and were produced till 1998, and featured four-wheel-drive variants.

They were produced because of a government demand for a four-wheel-drive passenger vehicle.

Some of the earliest mid-engined four-wheel-drive cars were the various road-legal rally cars made for Group B homologation, such as the Ford RS200 made from 1984 to 1986.

Bugatti created a total of three four-wheel-drive racers, the Type 53, in 1932, but the cars were notorious for having poor handling.

On Wednesday 4 February, a number of DUKWs and four-wheel-drive lorries reached the island with food and water for the stranded animals, which were rounded up and assembled at the churchyard, where the land is slightly higher.

In the 1950s Jensen were chosen by the British Motor Corporation ( BMC ) to build the bodies for the four-wheel-drive Austin Gipsy.

These were all alike: small, compact, four-wheel-drive vehicles with at most a small hardtop to protect the occupants from the elements.

The U. S. Jeep Wagoneer and the Ford Bronco, the British Range Rover, and the station wagon-bodied Japanese Toyota Land Cruiser, Nissan Patrol and Suzuki Lj's series were all essentially just station wagon bodies on light truck frames with four-wheel-drive drivetrains.

To commemorate the success of the original vehicle, all subsequent Audis with their trademark quattro four-wheel-drive system were badged " quattro " with a lower case " q " and in a distinct typeface which has remained nearly unchanged since its inception.

The B14 Sunny and Sentra appeared in 1994 and were produced until 1998, and featured four-wheel-drive variants.

Andretti was doing his best with the controversial and soon-to-be-abandoned four-wheel-drive Type 63, while Hill and Rindt were in standard 49Bs.

All 1984 models were equipped with the carbureted 2. 4 L 22R engine and were all available with a four-wheel-drive system that drove the front wheels through a solid front axle.

Because the drive train was still developed from the same source, the available engines were identical: The same 2. 4 L four-cylinder ( 22RE ) and 3. 0 L V6 ( 3VZ ) engines were available in rear-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive layouts.

Dobbs Ferry is served by a paid police department, a volunteer fire department ( housing three pumpers and one tower ladder in two firehouses ) and a volunteer ambulance corps ( possessing two ambulances ( one equipped with four-wheel-drive ) and a fire rehab unit ).

In 2000, Porsche debuted the 996 Turbo, equipped with four-wheel-drive and a 3. 6 litre, twin turbocharged and intercooled flat-six producing 420 bhp ( 309 kW ), making the car capable of 4. 2 second 0 to 60 mph times.

Standard front-wheel-drive vehicles ( and four-wheel-drive wagons not equipped with the six-speed manual transmission ) came with either a three-speed automatic or a four-or five-speed manual transmission.

The four-wheel-drive models ( chassis code AL25, only with the 1. 5 engine ) could be equipped with six-speed manual transmission, and could be shifted from two-to four-wheel drive without coming to a stop.

Also included with better equipped four-wheel-drive models was a inclinometer above the radio / air conditioner that measured the tilt of the car.

These and most other cities and large towns are now connected with asphalt-paved roads, while smaller towns are often connected by dirt roads, which may require a four-wheel-drive vehicle.

Today, the Wrangler is one of the few remaining four-wheel-drive vehicles with solid front and rear axles.

This highly popular car was made with off-road use in mind, featuring a gearbox with a four-wheel-drive selector lever as well as a low-and high-range selector lever.

Land Rover is a British car manufacturer with its headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom which specialises in four-wheel-drive vehicles.

Vanuatu's undeveloped road system, with fewer than 100 miles of paved roads, consists mostly of dirt tracks suitable only for four-wheel-drive vehicles.

Beyond main intercity roads, which are usually paved, the rural roads generally necessitate four-wheel-drive vehicles or vehicles with high clearance.

In 1985, the first Golfs with four-wheel-drive ( Golf syncro ) went on sale with the same Syncro four-wheel-drive system being employed on the supercharged G60 models, exclusively released on the continent in 1989 with and ABS braking.

A four-wheel-drive scout car, known to the Arny as the Dingo, had a 2. 5-litre engine, along with a larger armoured car powered by a 4. 1-litre engine and armed with a 2pdr.

The term four-wheel drive can describe larger passenger vehicles that may allow the driver to manually switch ( sometimes with an automatic option ) between two-wheel-drive mode ( if available ) for streets and four-wheel-drive mode for low-traction conditions such as ice, mud, snow, or loose gravel.

The first four-wheel-drive car, as well as hill-climb racer, with internal combustion engine, the Spyker 60 H. P., was presented in 1903 by Dutch brothers Jacobus and Hendrik-Jan Spijker of Amsterdam.

The second U. S. four-wheel-drive vehicle was built in 1908 by ( what became ) the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company ( FWD ) of Wisconsin ( not to be confused with the term " FWD " as an acronym for front-wheel drive ).

The term 4 × 4 ( read: four by four ) was in use to describe North American military four-wheel-drive vehicles as early as the 1940s, with the first number indicating the total number of wheels on a vehicle and the second indicating the number of driven wheels.

However, some traction engines used a four-wheel-drive variation, and some experimented with an early form of caterpillar track.

In addition, Ford executives became adamant that the new vehicle feature four-wheel-drive, an addition they felt would be necessary to allow it the ability to compete properly with four-wheel-drive models from Peugeot and Audi.