So, I just got done joy-riding in my wife's loaner Acura TL...

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07-20-06, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Mike_TX

If the only FWD car you've driven is a Civic or Grand AM, you're not playing with a full deck when you criticize it. A good sport-oriented FWD car, like a TL or even a late-model Maxima SE, will run like stink and carve corners and curves at scary speeds. And it will do it more economically and efficiently than most RWD's.

My g/f has a TSX and while it handles great for a FWD car, anything past 7-8/10ths and the FWD front weight bias does make itself apparent. For any type of reasonably sane (7-8/10th or less) street driving, there isn't that much of a difference.

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There's a lot of RWD snobbery out there, and since 99% of us don't track our cars or ever really drive at 9/10's, it's uninformed to criticize FWD cars.

agree. I remember one of the car rags trying to find the 'best handing car.' The winner of the FWD contest was the prelude type sh. When they tested the RWD cars (vette, lotus, porche, etc.,) they brought along the prelude for giggles and despite having a serious power to weight disadvantage, the prelude finished mid-pack.