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Old 08-18-2012, 08:15 PM   #174
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Originally Posted by ZDan View Post
Quite the opposite. Even a 53/47 rwd car will have the advantage on acceleration, as it loads up the drive wheels where fwd unloads them. On uphill, even more advantage to decently balanced rwd over fwd.

Even with ridonkulous (but necessary) 60-65% weight on the fronts, fwd has a drive wheel traction disadvantage under acceleration in just about any conditions short of snow/ice.

Wrong wheel drive...
my only point is that using uphill or downhill conditions as a factor as to why one car is better than another is going negated when going the other way. the only reason i wrote it like that was because i was referring to his specific situation. either way, the corolla is not as good a car as the itr regardless of drive wheels
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