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Why FWD? 850

posted by  Andrew Woods on  Mon Feb 4 12:58 CST 2002
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Here's a question that I've been thinking about for a few years and I finally got around to asking it, why Front Wheel Drive? Is there a certian reason car manufacturers are making pretty much all of their cars FWD now? It can't be cheaper can it? there's more complex shift linkage, smaller funny shaped transmissions, CV joints, blah blah

My next car is going to be an 850 Turbo wagon so I'm not complaining, I just want to know if there was a reason why not too many cars besides trucks and stupid SUV's are RWD now, even though FWD cars handle a LOT better than they used to, in my opinion I prefer RWD.

What are your thoughts?
Andrew Woods
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