I have notice that there are many compact city cars IRL have no rear brakes at all, since weight transform to the engine-loaded-heavy front axies.
I think for a city-famliy market car. the brakes are good enought if they can meet the regulation requirement(usually a given stop distance in a giving speed and road condition). regardless if it could overpower the wheel’s grip or so.
do you have examples of such vehicles?
Are you sure? There’s plenty of new small cars without rear disc brakes, but I’ve never worked on a car without rear brakes…
even the new Fiat 500 has very small (i mean very tiny) drums in the rear
Are cars without rear brakes even road legal in most countries?
well, if the manufacturer passes all of the tests and standards, then why not?
but most likely not the case
speaking of, will we get brakes on shafts like older Alfas did?
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[quote=“AngelOfAttack”]I have notice that there are many compact city cars IRL have no rear brakes at all, since weight transform to the engine-loaded-heavy front axies.
I think for a city-famliy market car. the brakes are good enought if they can meet the regulation requirement(usually a given stop distance in a giving speed and road condition). regardless if it could overpower the wheel’s grip or so.[/quote]
I think what you are seeing is a lack of DISC brakes when these tiny tin cans have rear drums, they are generally hard to see since they are not shiny like a disc brake. I can not think of a single production car that had brakes only on the front axle, maybe back in 1901 but anything past 1920 would have brakes all around.
Not even the older cars were like that, although a few were the opposite.
The Ford Model A was the first Ford to have four wheel brakes, up until then, the Model T was usually (always?) rear drum with nothing up front.
