RWD

Amen brother...

Tell me about it! This is my main problem since getting the 924 - the idea was, take my old Peugeot 305 off the road, completely restore it and plonk in an Mi16 engine & running gear, whilst driving the Porsche 924 in the meantime. Problem is, it drives soooo much better than the 305, I'm having difficulty reasoning *why* I'd want 160/170 bhp at the front wheels of a saloon car! I always used to think FWD, with its tendancy to understeer gradually and controllably gave a better drive. I guess it sounds like you're having fun around roundabouts though...

Chris.

Care to qualify your statement ?

Why? You'll only tell him FWD is better :)

I've driven lots of rwd/fwd/4wd, not sure if it's as clear cut as rwd being 'better'...but yes, wet roundabouts can be fun! And generally less tyre scrabbling in the wet too...(comparing my AX to my sierra twinky..)

i love my MK1 MR2 being RWD, so much now that what ever car i have i think it'll have to be RWD or

No.

This time of year...

Any time of year.

Depends on the car .....

Bad..... My olde style beemer, with 65% / 35% weight distribution is good on staright line rip aways ... just boot the auto and go. BUT ... go round a wet corner, boot the throttle and you will go sideways rapidly. Sometimes the kick out at the back is much quicker than you can correct on the steering.

Not quite as bad...... My modified citroen axgt is okish, providing you pull away gently, get up to 10mph before booting the go faster pedal (past the ford focus that stormed off the lights 2 seconds earlier). Go round a wet corner, boot the throttle and you go straight. Turn the steering wheel more and you still go round the corner (wheelspin and all). Then let the throttle off and you end up going in the true direction the wheels are pointing (e.g:kerb).

Good...... My other beemer has nearer 50 % / 50% weight distribution, is three foot longer and 1 foot wider than my old one .... boot that and the rear end throw out is much "slower" , making it more controllable.

The most forgiving is the fwd citroen. The most boring is the rwd 730i

Ha! This from arguably the master of the unqualified statement. (c:

Douglas

fwd is only a step up to rwd, are there any fwd supercars? in fact there arent many fwd sportscars, i can only think of lotus elans and fiat coupe

please add to this list as i am drunk and am not qualified to drive either atm.

Only FWD "sports" car I can think of is the poverty spec TT, and the Fiat Barchetta. Anything with serious pace is RWD or AWD.

surely barchetta is rwd???? and I thought all TT were quattro? are u really telling me they made a fwd quattro?, if so I bet it handles better than the

bwahahahahaha!

Nope, front wheel drive.

Heh.

No, I disagree.

I'd rather numpties drive front wheel drive cars in winter than rear wheel drive.

It's not you or I that bothers me, it's the numpty who says, "then I just touched the pedal and it just started spinning, there was nothing I could do about it."

Every snow fall, York's ring road is littered with BMWs, Mercs, MR2s and MX-5s, because noddy drivers don't appreciate (don't need to for ordinary driving) what happens when they're ham fisted with the controls.

Give a FWD too much power mid way around a roundabout and you wash the front wide. Give a RWD too much power mid way around a roundabout and the numpty usually leaves the roundabout, not by a proper exit, broadside on.

I'd rather numpties didn't drive ;). If they must drive, and in winter, they should drive bloody slowly in FWD cars. IMO it's difficult to cause lift off oversteer in a FWD car with bog all grip, but easy to cause oversteer with a RWD car either with too much or too little throttle.

Or you carry on going round, at an unusual angle and grinning, if you're not a numpty.

Me too!

But unfortunately, numpties do drive. Lots of them drive. Some of them buy a BMW or Merc because it is supposed to say something about them.

Hehehehe!

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