axle
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Foiling the visual expectations of a lifetime, the four-door’s glass roof joins the car’s sloping rear deck just over the rear axle, omitting a transparent panel of any kind.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
An obvious solution to that was to recover from the front axle as well as the rear.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
Developments over the winter had made the new car faster, but introduced what the drivers called a "numbness" to the front axle, which was preventing Norris' ability to exploit the car.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025
If the AWD detects a sustained loss of traction at the rear it can route up to 369 lb-ft to the front axle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
That’s exactly when the driver’s side of the car lurched downward sharply and the axle struck against something hard, with a grating, metallic clang.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
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