Steven Ewing spent his childhood reading car magazines, making his career as an automotive journalist an absolute dream job. After getting his foot in the door at Automobile while he was still a ...

Explosive is the only word that comes to mind. I’m still catching my breath after a handful of laps behind the wheel of Hyundai’s mid-engine concept, skunkworks codename RM19, at the Hyundai Proving ...

Following stints in TV news production and as a record company publicist, Chris spent most of his career in automotive publishing. Mentored by Automobile Magazine founder David E. Davis Jr., Paukert ...

In the late 1970s, the Lancia Stratos found success in rally racing, due in part to the handling enabled by its mid-engine design. Renault wanted in on the action, so it turned its little R5 economy ...

The ‘N’ of Hyundai N stands for Namyang, home to Hyundai Motor’s global R&D Center in Korea since 1995. Called RM for "racing midship," the Hyundai RM19 prototype is a 390-hp testbed for future ...

Add another mid-engine Hyundai prototype to the tally. The Hyundai RM19 Racing Midship Prototype is seeing its debut at the 2019 L.A. Auto Show. This one ups the performance to an even higher level ...

Hyundai’s N performance division is working on a mid-engined production car and the thrilling RM19 is an early test-bed for this vehicle. Matt Farah, as well as a handful of other publications, ...

As it stands, the mid-engined RM19 is just a rolling test bed for what’s to come much later in Hyundai’s growing N-car project. But it shows how serious Hyundai is at expanding the N brand, and how ...

The iconic Lancia Delta S4, Peugeot 205 T16, Renault 5 Turbo, MG Metro 6R4, Renaultsport Clio V6 are all high-performance hatchbacks with their engines installed in the unlikeliest of locations—their ...