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[malba2366]

Not true. RWD is far better for driving dynamics than FWD. The only advantage of a FWD car is that most cars are very front heavy so you get better traction in snow with such a vehicle. In most higher end cars (which have a 50/50 weight distribution) RWD is superior. The main benefit of FWD for automakers is easier packaging/lower cost (especially with transverse engines) - which is a horribly unrefined setup and prone to torque steer.

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[timbop]

Full time RWD is great if you only drive in the sun on curvy roads.

I know some people who have RWD only vehicles, and they only use them half the year... put them in storage for the winter.

(Personally I can't keep a vehicle that is only good half the year.... but it works for some, and with covid it seems like it's only about once a week I use my vehicle)

It depends on where you live. Where I live in southern New Jersey we typically get 10 to maybe 15 days of snow/slush a year and nowadays I work from home those days, so having a rear wheel drive isn't such a big deal. I've owned 3 RWD mustangs (23+ years) and a few FWD cars, and RWD doesn't worry me. If I lived where you do, I would have gotten the AWD though.

 

[timbop]

On what experience do you base this? How many different RWD and FWD cars and for what duration have you driven them?

Making an assertion with absolutist language does not make it true.

 

[EVer]

So you base your assertion that "in all cases AWD beats FWD beats RWD" on a random blog which cites RWD as the favorite, and uses such eloquent language as " I've already either bored or knotted the panties of anyone who's bothered to read all this."

At least that's consistent with the quality of your contributions to this forum.

Personally, I agree with the author of that blog. I prefer driving RWD to AWD, and AWD to FWD.

 

[timbop]

I didn't ask what racing article you read, I asked how many RWD and FWD cars you've owned and driven. I'll stipulate for handling in bad weather AWD is better than either, but that doesn't mean RWD nor FWD are useless. Having owned multiple samples of all 3 type over 35 years, RWD and FWD are fine or unacceptable depending upon where you live AND which specific cars of each type you choose. A lot also depends on your experience level.

You constantly make blanket statements expressed as absolutes, and which are frequently based on unfounded hearsay or opinion based on limited experience. For a liberal you have a really narrow and rigid viewpoint. George Lucas expressed a powerful truth when he penned the phrase "at some point you'll find that the truths we cling to are based upon a certain point of view".

 

[timbop]

So, some guy with a racing blog's opinion applies to all situations everywhere, and ONLY AWD cars are acceptable and ALL RWD are useless to anyone?

I stand by my previous assessment.

 

[EVer]

So, some guy with a racing blog's opinion applies to all situations everywhere, and ONLY AWD cars are acceptable and ALL RWD are useless to anyone?

I stand by my previous assessment.

One which is based exclusively on a heavy internal combustion engine in the front, and even then doesn’t conclude FWD is superior to RWD.

 

[EVer]

You seem to mistake statements for questions routinely. Moreover you seem unable to find the answer to the unasked question. Weird.

 

[trutolife27]

This is still going?

 

[ajmartineau]

I just heard that those numbers are off an SR battery pack.















.................................................................................................................This is just a fun rumor I'm starting. I've filed official confidential paperwork proving it.

 

[Nak]

Really. Maybe explain what happens when weight transfers rearward under acceleration? No? Don't understand simple physics? That's OK, simple physics is hard for some. Maybe once you get your driver's license you can try this simple experiment. Take a RWD pickup. Try and accelerate up a hill. Easy, right? Now try and do it in reverse; back up the hill. Even with dry pavement you'll just spin your tires if you accelerate even a tiny bit hard. Why? because weight transfers rearward under acceleration. By trying to back up the truck, you've turned it into a FWD vehicle, except you don't have most of the weight over the drive wheels. Going forward, you take advantage of physics, weight transfers rearward and you increase traction available at the rear wheels. By backing up you've temporarily turned the pickup into a FWD vehicle and you see immediately the weakness of FWD.

With a cheap ICE vehicle, you have a heavy motor and transaxle you put right over the drive wheels, so you get lots of forward traction. (As long as you don't accelerate too hard, in which case you'll just spin your tires even on dry pavement.) With an EV, you don't have all of that. You're going to end up with close to even weight distribution regardless of where you put the drive wheels. Which is why 2WD EVs like the Mach-e and Teslas are RWD. Because engineers aren't idiots.

In day to day driving where traction is limited, certainly AWD is superior. Failing that RWD would be next up with FWD coming in a distant third. The mere fact that you'd argue otherwise simply exposes your total and complete ignorance of anything automotive. That's OK and the beauty of forums like this; you get to learn from people who have far more knowledge and experience than yourself, if you have the wisdom to do so. Or, you can just stick to your zero knowledge and pretend that you know something. You can just ignore science, it's not good for anything, right?

This is just like when you posted that you had to use the touchscreen to shift a Model 3. You pretend to know something or pretend to own something, but your lack of real knowledge fails you.

 

[ChasingCoral]

I can deal with potahtos and tomahtos, just don’t call my trunk a boot ?

although, I abhor the term “frunk,” and the anglicized “fruit” is much better.

Etymologically speaking, that would be spelled Froot.

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