The Chevrolet Corvair was a rear-engine car manufactured ... The first-generation Corvairs (1960 to 1964) used a swing axle rear suspension (like a Volkswagen Bug), but the second-generation ...

Debuting in 1960, the Corvair seemed totally out of left field from GM. It featured an air-cooled, horizontally-opposed powerplant mounted in the rear and a notorious swing-axle suspension (it was ...

In the '60s there was the rear-engine, air-cooled Chevrolet Corvair, then the mid-engine Pontiac Fiero in the '80s and the completely bizarre Chevy SSR in the 2000s. What all of these had in ...

Winning production car races was easy, and Chevy unveiled ... shared with the rear-engined Corvair the distinction of being the only American car with four-wheel independent suspension, and ...