You are definitely going to
You are definitely going to get some push back from traditional car fans, but I totally agree with you. If the engine and transmission are between the axles, it's a mid-engined car. Of course the image that most car lovers associate with mid-engined cars are Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and other traditional rear-mid-engined designs. Often rear mid engined cars have a rear weight bias, but this aids in acceleration traction. Similarly, rear engine designs like the Porsche 911 have great acceleration as the engine's weight is over the driving wheels. But early 911s could be a real handful, especially the first 911 Turbo models that had bad turbo lag and would come on boost mid corner, lose traction and then go into an unrecoverable spin. But years of racing and skilled engineering have tamed the 911's handling, and newer models are judged among the most rewarding cars to drive. Front mid engined cars like the Miata, Corvette, and Viper are surprisingly good in the corners because of their 50-50 weight balance. In fact so serious racers will "corner balance" their car to have 25% of the car's weight on each wheel. Another big advantage of rear mid engined cars is the lack of driveline losses. Front engined, front wheel drive cars have lower driveline losses, but they also have the accelerating wheels also steering the car. One of the new Corvette's biggest performance advantage is due to it's quick shifting transmission being connected directly to the engine. The combination of the reduced power loss, seamless, quick shifting, and the engine placement explain how the new C8 Corvette can beat the C7 Corvette ZR1 to 60 MPH despite having 260HP less. Electric cars have even better weight balance with the motors in-between each set of driving wheels, and the weight of the battery between the axles and low in the car's body. Plus usually BEVs have no transmission and all motor torque available at zero RPM. The only downside for EVs is the huge weight of their batteries. Top exotic, mid engine hybrid cars like the Porsche 918 have two electric motors, one driving the front wheels, and one electric motor in parallel driving the rear wheels, plus a small battery, providing the best of all worlds, top acceleration, great handling, and the motors aiding both power delivery and braking. There are very strong rumors that the top C8 ZR1/Zora will have electric motors as well. Relatively affordable sports cars like the Miata, MR2, and Lotus Elise attack the idea of fast track times by weight balance, and very low vehicle weight. They can be surprisingly competitive on a circuit racetrack against performance cars with FAR more power, and even though the big boys run away in the straights, the lightweight, balanced sports cars catch up in the corners.