Off hand, other than the Maxi, I don't know of any other car that did that, all others are end on, and so are that much wider.
Other gearbox in sump layouts with shared oil were the transverse versions of the BMC/BL B-Series as used in Austin/Morris 1800, also the 6 cylinder 2200 'Landcrab' /Princess and later the O-Series unit as used in the BL Princess, Ambassador range.
Like the Maxi engine/box the 'B' series engine & gearbox was also transplanted into a few Minis in the 1960/70's but the extra front end weight often upset the handling of the Mini. The 1800/2200 gearbox has also been used a few times to put 'hybrid' fwd transverse mounted Rover V8 engines into Minis.....as the Rover V8 is alloy the weight issue is no worse than the cast iron B-Series unit but still not ideal for the Mini. It is done more just because of the engineering challenge of having a V8 engine under a Mini bonnet driving the front wheels.
There were a few other car manufacturers like Peugeot who adopted the BMC transverse gearbox in sump layout but ultimately the end on gearbox with separate oil became the norm for most modern fwd cars.
Interestingly the first car with the modern end on fwd gearbox layout appears to be the Autobianchi Primula:-
"Fiat's chief designer, Dante Giacosa, recognized the potential of the BMC Mini fwd concept and sought ways to improve on it - namely by removing the transmission from the sump. This would produce a larger overall powertrain unit but this was not essential in the type of cars Giacosa proposed. In return such cars would be easier to service and repair and benefit from greater refinement and lower noise levels. Fiat was cautiously accepting of Giacosa's proposal and decided to experiment without risking damage to the image of its popular Fiat-branded cars. Thus the Autobianchi Primula emerged—a car marketed under a less crucial nameplate, for which it was an entry into a whole new class of vehicles.[2] The key to Giacosa's design was a compact concentric clutch release mechanism using a hydraulic piston mounted inside a hollow gearbox input shaft, thus doing away with the traditional external clutch lever and release arm and the internal clutch thrust bearing. This allowed the powertrain to be short enough to fit across the Primula's engine bay while allowing for the required steering angles and the determined overall width. With the transmission mounted end-on to the engine and the final drive therefore offset from the car's centre line, the Primula had unequal-length driveshafts.
The Primula's particular configuration of front wheel drive and transverse engine, but with a gearbox on the end of the engine, ingenious Fiat-designed clutch release mechanism and unequal length drive shafts, rather than a gearbox in the sump like the Mini, has become universal among front-wheel-drive cars. Suspension was a single wishbone and upper transverse leaf spring in the front and a "dead" rear axle. The Primula is thus a car design of far greater significance than is often realised, as its design influence spread, far beyond even the mainstream high volume Fiats such as the 128 and the 127 of the late 1960s which used its driveline layout combined with MacPherson struts; to every front wheel drive transverse engined car in production today."
https://wikivisually...bianchi_Primula
Edited by mab01uk, 21 February 2019 - 07:32 PM.
