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^ The argument about 2 brakes is completely wrong. If you only had two (front) brakes, every time you applied the brakes in ANY sort of hurry, the rear of the car would flick around and you would spin out. The same cannot be said about 2WD. If the brakes were on the rear, all of the weight would transfer to the front of the car under braking and you would lose a lot of braking power (meaning it would be more dangerous).

I completely agree with people that say FWD is inferior compared to both RWD and AWD - making the front tyres do all of the work is about the worst possible way you could design any sort of performance car. RWD doesn't follow this suit, as it (almost fully) evens the load between front (turning) and rear (applying power) tyres - i.e. it's about as close to perfect as possible. AWD IMO is *just* worse than RWD, UNLESS you have some sort of system like the GTR's where torque is only distributed to the front tyres when they start to lose traction. AWD is less efficient, has more drivetrain power loss and adds more weight, NONE of which are good for a performance car.

The ONLY exception to that, IMO, is when the car has too much power that it is uncontrollable in normal conditions (unheard of in a $20K production car) and is trying to apply that to either, or both, sets of wheels. Then driver skill comes in just as much as a good car setup or AWD system.