Abstract: A transmission is connected with a manually operable control or shift lever by a control rod which transmits a driver's manual movement to the transmission. In order to prevent a resonance of the control rod from being caused by vibration of the engine, the control rod is divided into two parts which are connected end to end by a joint. There is further provided a support rod which supports the control lever and the control rod. The support rod extends substantially in parallel with the control rod, and both of its ends are connected, respectively, to a vehicle body or a housing of the transmission. The support rod has bearing means for swingably supporting the control lever and an arm which supports the control rod, at the either one of its two parts, rotatably and axially slidably.

Abstract: The final drive arrangement of an automotive transaxle is provided with a gearing between the differential gear and one of the driven wheels which reverses the rotation of the output of the final drive unit and then re-reverses same so that both of the driven wheels rotate in the same direction but the reaction inputted to the final drive unit from each of the driven wheels negates or offsets the other.

Abstract: An engine mounting structure for mounting an automotive engine on the body structure of an automotive vehicle, comprising two rigid coupling members one of which is connected to the vehicle body structure and the other of which is connected to the body structure of the engine, two resilient blocks securely attached to the coupling members, respectively, and having interposed therebetween an intermediate member carrying an inertia member at the free end of the intermediate member, and a resilient block interposed between the intermediate member and one of the two coupling members, wherein the spring constants of the three resilient blocks, the weight of the inertia member and the location of the third resilient block on the intermediate member are selected, by preference, in such a manner as to reduce the vibrations to be transmitted from the engine to the vehicle body during cruising of the vehicle at relatively high speeds.

Abstract: An engine mounting structure for mounting an automotive engine on the body structure of an automotive vehicle, comprising the parallel combination of a main oscillatory system adapted to damp vibrations produced by the engine during medium-speed cruising of the vehicle and an auxiliary oscillatory system adapted to cancel the vibrations to be transmitted through the main oscillatory system under high-speed cruising conditions of the vehicle for reducing booming noises to be produced in the vehicle cabin under such conditions. The auxiliary oscillatory system comprises at least one mass member and at least two resilient blocks structurally intervening between the mass member and the main oscillatory system.

Abstract: An engine mounting structure for mounting an automotive engine on the body structure of an automotive vehicle, comprising the parallel combination of a main oscillatory system adapted to damp vibrations produced by the engine during medium-speed cruising of the vehicle and an auxiliary oscillatory system adapted to cancel the vibrations to be transmitted through the main oscillatory system under high-speed cruising conditions of the vehicle for reducing booming noises to be produced in the vehicle cabin under such conditions. The auxiliary oscillatory system comprises at least two rigid mass members and at least three resilient blocks structurally intervening between the main oscillatory system and the mass members.