But, there’s something else that every car, van, lorry and train needs to allow it to move, and that’s an axle. An axle is a bar that goes through the wheels, keeping them in place and ...

A great example of a short dash-to-axle ratio on a front-wheel-drive car is any of the Chrysler cab-forward cars from the 1990s, while the Mercedes SLS AMG shows how a longer dash-to-axle creates ...