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This, as described absolutely will not work for a few reasons.
1. These motors are heavy. Using them in an unsprung application would result in horrible handling and probably destroyed tires/rims from hitting potholes.
2. As has been stated already, these are low speed high torque. Good for a forklift. Bad for a car, unless you are going to use it as a yard tow vehicle.
I think there is a definite application for hub mounted rear wheel drive as an add on to something like a civic or a metro, primarily to give it hybrid capabilities, secondarily to give it 4x4 capabilities. Such a motor would be a high voltage AC motor with pretty modest power output.
If you want to make a large american V-8 sedan accelerate, it is simple physics. You gotta spin the wheels where the weight is, via that big lump that is already producing lots of power. Kinda like the way they did it the prior half century in impalas.
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