What is the advantage of a rear engine car?

Rod–The Corvair station wagon and the van version had an additional problem.
Because the engine was–literally–inside the passenger cabin, and because the heater boxes tended to rot out after a few years, exhaust fumes would seep into the cabin, with sometimes disasterous results. I vividly recall the case of a carpenter who used one of the Corvair vans for work, and he was turned into a brain-damaged vegetable by long-term CO exposure.

Also–the maximum payload of the pickup and the van was greatly reduced by the weight of the rear engine. Having a rear engine in a vehicle designed to carry large loads in the rear is…not a great concept.

All-in-all, not a good design.