08-01-2007, 08:50 AM
Evan Wrote:I think we are seeing a resurgance of RWD. The new chryslers are RWD (only because they are based off last gen Mercedes, but regardless) the sport compact market is over fwd and into awd and rwd.
The ONLY sense fwd makes is for platform engineering. And since now the automakers have viable rwd platforms, I think we should see some downmarket rwd econo coupes. fuck the regurgitated "stick a slightly bigger engine in a fwd shitbox" formula that has been done until vomit inducing.
You're only seeing a resurgance in the more expensive "performance" cars. You know, the ones that business men buy to add some excitement to their sad little lives. I think the sport compact has tasted awd but the MS3 is proof that they're not over FWD. I'd agree that the market should have reached saturation of FWD a long time ago but it just doesn't seem to be the case. Let's face it, the sport compact market is pretty young and when they're buying it with their parents money, their parents want FWD 'cause it's safe.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth