Who offered(s) AWD manual trans compact-ish cars with longitudinal mounted engine and a transfer case?
Subaru & Audi are all transaxle cars right, engine sticks out ahead of the front axle center line?
BMW 3 series is the first I thought of, rare-ish E30 325ix, then E46 & later 3 series.
Nissan Skylines?
Who else?
In reply to bigdaddylee82 :
Eagle, but that's probably not what you're looking for.
dps214
HalfDork
9/19/20 6:36 p.m.
I think most if not all of the newer bmw awd cars are auto only.
New chargers and challengers aren't compactish but they do have a transfer case and longitudinal mount engines.
101" wheelbase : ~3000lbs : 190hp : 5 speed : awd optional

My wife's 2014 BMW 3 series wagon has a longitudinal 4 diesel with a transfer case.
Volvos probably as well. Pretty sure they used the same transfer as the BMW.
Yeah, the BMWs all use a transfer case. AFAIK Subaru and Audi are the only ones use an integrated transmission w/ front & center diff that has the axles coming out of the side. Well, AWD 911s as well, but pointed the other way. :)
Audi Q7s have a tcase as well.
Lamborghini's AWD cars would fit the bill although they're not maybe as small as what you're asking about.
While I own(ed) several 4x4 SUVs and/or trucks, including a couple Jeeps, and I guess they're technically "cars," let's pretend they're not for this particular data collection exercise.
Also, I'm a bit of a Volvo nerd, all of Volvo's AWD offerings have been early '90s to present, starting with the P80 platform, all transverse engines, they didn't use any BMW parts. Unless some BMWs also used Haldex, but that's not relevant for this exercise since Volvos were/are all transverse engines.
Have we already exhausted all options?
I have been looking a while and I can't find any. I think it is assemble your own or buy racing parts that they don't bother listing prices for.
The w203 chassis was available with 4matic but I am not sure it could coincide with a manual transmission.
EDIT: Euro only but Mercedes did make a manual 4matic car. I can only find it existing on a midsize w124, but we're talking about Skylines and Subarus so I guess that counts.
RevRico
PowerDork
9/20/20 1:03 p.m.
What about foreign subies? Australia and I'm sure other countries got a high/low range selecting transfer case.
In reply to RevRico :
I've not come across that. All subis that I've seen, world wide, use the front transaxle, not a seperate transfer case.
LanEvo
Dork
9/20/20 11:54 p.m.
We didn't get them here, but the Ford Escort RS Cosworth and Sierra Sapphire Cosworth 4x4 both had the configuration you describe.
