JoeDirt, perhaps you need a lesson in reality.
A Subaru WRX outracing a Corvette? Are you nucking futs? Or just stupid? There's the basic starting point of the Corvette having a better power-to-weight ratio than the WRX, but wait - it gets better! Perhaps you've heard the words "transfer of weight" or "transfer of power" before? Lemme explain it in simple terms for ya. Corvette: Hit the gas, and the acceleration is going to put most of the weight over the rear wheels. The rear wheels are the drive wheels. Result? Better friction for drive wheels. Better acceleration, and better speed. Impreza WRX: All-wheel drive. Which means, what? That only 40% of the power is on the back wheels, which makes it far less able to take advantage of weight-transfer than the 'Vette. At least it has
some power on the rear wheel.
Don't get me wrong, the WRX is a great car, but a better performance vehicle than the Corvette? Puh-lease
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It's for that reason that massive wings are so wasted on FWD and AWD cars. Makes them look stupider than they are already, since it essentially amounts to a massive neon sign reading "MORON" in twenty-foot high letters.
Real easy for ya: FWD - very practical, more efficiency, better mileage, safer in slippery conditions. RWD - Better for power, takes advantage of weight transfer, better in a racing vehicle for controlling slides through turns, oversteer specifically. AWD - Safest in bad weather conditions. Not so fuel efficient.
And ya know, that riceboy site guy may be an amazinhunk, but at least he isn't an idiot.
Hell, I know where I stand, at least. My first car will probably be a Geo Metro hatchback. Either that or a Honda Civic hatchback. I firmly occupy the bottom of the totem pole here
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