Traction (automobile)

Front-wheel drive - automotive transmission where the engine drives the front wheels only. Article “Traction (automobile)” in French Wikipedia has 22.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.2 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Traction (automobile)” was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Traction (automobile)”, its content was written by 30 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 786 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1248 times in French Wikipedia and cited 14837 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #8271 in August 2019
• Global: #13829 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #11003 in August 2008
• Global: #35977 in December 2010

There are 30 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Front-wheel drive		66.2349
2	Spanish (es) Tracción delantera		59.9145
3	Russian (ru) Передний привод		55.4727
4	Japanese (ja) 前輪駆動		50.6468
5	Chinese (zh) 前轮驱动		41.304
6	German (de) Frontantrieb		27.3258
7	Persian (fa) خودروی محور جلو		27.0284
8	Korean (ko) 전륜구동		25.4796
9	Indonesian (id) Penggerak roda depan		23.4328
10	French (fr) Traction (automobile)		22.8

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Traction (automobile)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Front-wheel drive		2 296 730
2	Japanese (ja) 前輪駆動		954 488
3	Russian (ru) Передний привод		701 097
4	Spanish (es) Tracción delantera		568 782
5	German (de) Frontantrieb		430 540
6	French (fr) Traction (automobile)		363 500
7	Polish (pl) Napęd przedni		335 804
8	Italian (it) Trazione anteriore		189 274
9	Chinese (zh) 前轮驱动		106 206
10	Korean (ko) 전륜구동		102 673

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Traction (automobile)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Front-wheel drive		5 519
2	Japanese (ja) 前輪駆動		1 479
3	Russian (ru) Передний привод		869
4	French (fr) Traction (automobile)		827
5	German (de) Frontantrieb		779
6	Spanish (es) Tracción delantera		600
7	Polish (pl) Napęd przedni		385
8	Chinese (zh) 前轮驱动		354
9	Italian (it) Trazione anteriore		308
10	Korean (ko) 전륜구동		229

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Traction (automobile)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Front-wheel drive		183
2	German (de) Frontantrieb		109
3	Russian (ru) Передний привод		68
4	Japanese (ja) 前輪駆動		56
5	Italian (it) Trazione anteriore		43
6	Spanish (es) Tracción delantera		38
7	French (fr) Traction (automobile)		30
8	Dutch (nl) Voorwielaandrijving		30
9	Polish (pl) Napęd przedni		25
10	Korean (ko) 전륜구동		22

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Traction (automobile)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Tracció al davant		2
2	English (en) Front-wheel drive		2
3	Spanish (es) Tracción delantera		2
4	Persian (fa) خودروی محور جلو		1
5	French (fr) Traction (automobile)		1
6	Japanese (ja) 前輪駆動		1
7	Arabic (ar) دفع أمامي		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) FWD		0
9	Czech (cs) Přední pohon		0
10	Danish (da) Forhjulstræk		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Traction (automobile)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 前輪駆動		2 014
2	German (de) Frontantrieb		1 751
3	Polish (pl) Napęd przedni		1 524
4	English (en) Front-wheel drive		1 322
5	French (fr) Traction (automobile)		1 248
6	Italian (it) Trazione anteriore		900
7	Finnish (fi) Etuveto		867
8	Spanish (es) Tracción delantera		690
9	Danish (da) Forhjulstræk		572
10	Hebrew (he) הנעה קדמית		490

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دفع أمامي
az	Azerbaijani FWD
ca	Catalan Tracció al davant
cs	Czech Přední pohon
da	Danish Forhjulstræk
de	German Frontantrieb
en	English Front-wheel drive
eo	Esperanto Antaŭa stirado
es	Spanish Tracción delantera
eu	Basque Aurreko trakzio
fa	Persian خودروی محور جلو
fi	Finnish Etuveto
fr	French Traction (automobile)
he	Hebrew הנעה קדמית
id	Indonesian Penggerak roda depan
it	Italian Trazione anteriore
ja	Japanese 前輪駆動
ko	Korean 전륜구동
lt	Lithuanian FF (išdėstymas)
nl	Dutch Voorwielaandrijving
no	Norwegian Forhjulsdrift
pl	Polish Napęd przedni
pt	Portuguese Tração dianteira
ru	Russian Передний привод
simple	Simple English Front-wheel drive
sk	Slovak Predný náhon
sv	Swedish Framhjulsdrift
tr	Turkish Önden çekiş
uk	Ukrainian Передній привід
zh	Chinese 前轮驱动

Best Rank

French: #11003 08.2008

Global: #35977 12.2010

Best Rank

French: #8271 08.2019

Global: #13829 12.2003

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