RWD vs FWD

So a bunch of people were arguing about this in the Bruckell LeGran thread, and someone said "Make a thread about it". So that's exactly what I'm doing. Which do you prefer? Which is best for your area? Do you prefer AWD? All of this can be discussed on this thread. Me personally I prefer none, depending on the season. We get really cold and snowy winters, so I prefer AWD then. But besides that, it doesn't matter to me.

 

i prefer RWD over anything else. it's tried and true, and fairly easy to fix something....also prefer body on frame

 

I... don't have a clear preference.

Each has its uses and optimal contexts of use, otherwise every manufacturer would have chosen one over the other as the universal standard.

Since I rarely get the chance to let my (admitedly, quite heavy) right foot loose, FWD is generally safer in everyday conditions, even if RWD is more involving.

 

left wheel drive or bust

 

In my opinion it depends on what the car is and what it is used for, Heck there are some good handling fwd cars out there like the Integra Type R and the original Mini.

 

I like rwd over fwd even in snow because i had 2 fwd cars and a rwd car the fwds couldnt climb up a snowy mountain the rwd could also in everday traffuc it doesnt make a diffrence. with both you can do slides and bournouts. But on a race track and offroad i prefer awd so in conclusion i like all of them

 

Small cars are the only acceptable FWD vehicles.

If its a midsize-fullsize sedan it should be RWD or AWD.
SUVs should be RWD or AWD (FWD SUVs are a cancer to this planet)

 

If it handles like a couch: RWD
If it handles like a monster:AWD
If it is crappy and terribly slow:FWD

 

Many good handling cars are RWD or FWD. As has been mentioned, the original Mini handles like a go kart. Also, RWD is used in some of the best handling cars such as the Lotus Elise and Exige. AWD can be configured to make a more controllable version of these. 50/50 setups are generally unsafe because they will understeer and potentially snap and spin. More sophisticated setups can be good but AWD and offroad 4WD setups add weight to cars. It all depends whether you prefer understeer or oversteer. AWD cars are not so good for cars on dry tracks but are brilliant for offroad tracks. Lancia also demonstrated that done right, RWD can beat AWD if paired with a skilled driver.

 

RWD
it's well tested, more involving and oversteer is more fun than understeer
and damn it's fun in the winter

 

In a realistic way, RWD would be mostly realistic since this is a street car and not an economy car. And a lot of midsized cars made in America are mostly RWD. You are going so slow that FWD or RWD does not matter. This car does not have 900 hp, so in a realistic sense, it would be RWD.

 

(As for the legran)
Logically based upon its exterior design, the LeGran resembles a lot of K cars, most of which are based upon a front engine, front wheel drive platform (FF) so the LeGran makes sense as a front wheel drive car, regaurdless if rwd would be more fun. Outside of big highway cruisers most american econo sedans since the earily 80's have been based upon a FF platform. I would not entirely rule out RWD being a thing, as AWD K cars did exist, but as a factory platform I would not expect rear wheel drive; if the car does come with AWD expect the car to be similar to the Pessima in that RWD is possible though messing around with differentials in the parts menu but does not exist as a factory option.

Which do I prefer? Rwd for track racing but FWD for rally, or AWD for a mix of both.

Just my 2 cents.

 

This guy gets it.
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I've seen some good small RWD cars, but besides that I do understand your point. Most small cars are/ should be FWD, midsize-fullsize should be RWD or AWD, and FWD SUVs are horrible.

 

**COUGH**

**COUGH**

**ACHOO**

sorry i think i have the flu

 

FWD is just horrible.

RWD is my personal preference

 

If you need to carry or pull lots of weight, RWD is the way to go. When you put weight in the back of a RWD vehicle, it can give it more traction, and when pulling a heavy trailer, the weight of the trailer, will sometimes lift the front of the vehicle a bit, FWD would lose traction in this case.

FWD is better in the snow though, I like to think of it like this: with FWD, you are pulling the lighter part of a car, with RWD, you are often pushing the heavy part of the vehicle.

In places like North Dakota, where there are heavy snowfalls and mostly unpaved, unsalted, unplowed roads, you toss some bags of sand, or extra tires, or something else heavy in the bed so you don't lose traction and spin out on snow.

 

Well at least you don't have cancer from the vaccine (Joking, that's complete BS. I have friends who are/ know doctors, and they said so themselves) That's very true. Those are all very nice cars, but I'm an idiot so I don't know... Which one is the second? I know the first is a sprinter Trueno and the Third is a Nissan fairlady, but what's the second one?

 

it is a Toyota Altezza also known as a Lexus is200

 

That was some super speedy delivery. Thanks!

 

RWD every time I try driving a front wheel drive car in games I end up understeering and crashing or almost crashing and having to do a 3 point turn to get pointed the right way again, with rear wheel drive I'm actually able to drive sensibly and carry some speed through corners(not much though as I'm terrible at racing and normally end up drifting through most corners...) outside of games it would almost never matter unless you are driving like an idiot in which case you will crash and die regardless of what drivetrain your car has or going up a steep dirt hill in which case rear wheel drive still has the advantage.
Edit: I also have a slight distrust of front wheel drive

 

Understeer, thats called not knowing how to tuck a fwd car into a corner
Left foot braking and weight transfer drifts ftw