Originally Posted By: Panzerman
My biggest question why would they make a serviceable item so hard to get too
Same reason they keep putting engines in sideways. It ulitmately sells cars because it lets you have a big interior for smaller overall size of vehicle. Pickup trucks, even in the darkest days of the 80s when cars seemed to run on vacuum hoses and loose bundles of wires, were still pretty roomy around the engine. But wrong-wheel-drive is never easy to work on unless its got a longitudinal engine like a old Toronado or Intrepid/Vision/Concorde/300M.