fwd cars feel amazing on twisty forest roads. I think most of the hate they get is undeserved and comes from people not wanting to give them a chance.

Keep hating on them, so I can buy them for cheap.

FWD if you can’t have AWD in the snow

Never sleep on a Honda with a suicidal driver he’s gonna send that shit like his names Ricky Bobby

Understeer is a driver error, like snap steer in mid engined cars.

A good setup FWD car will teach a lot of fast driving since you can’t just use power to go faster. Making you learn inertia conservation, trail braking, and coasting through corners

On track, RWD and AWD come out on top, but if we're keeping it a buck fifty here... There is no better daily driver than a fun FWD car. They can be safely driven quick on public roads, are still capable in winter, and don't drain your wallet at the pump. Sprinkle a lil 5-door in this stew and ya got yourself the classic age-old hot hatch recipe. Fun, versatile, economical and practical.

I'm a fan of FWD. It's a bit more forgiving on back roads, plus learning how to set up and use lift off oversteer is pretty satisfying. Torque steer just adds a little drama to the experience.

People who say "FWD cant hoon" have never hooned a FWD car. Especially FWD reverse donuts, they go hard.

Fwd is actually way more fun to drive when it’s smaller and lighter. My 97 geo prism even though it was only a 1.6 4 banger making like 60 horses it was a blast to drive on some back roads, dare I say more fun than the time I thrashed in a 5.0

My '08 honda fit is a goddamn go-kart. The only problem it ever has is torque steering... with its 108hp

I just like things with engines and wheels everything else is a bonus.

That Canadian accent when he said car was gold

Fwd is fun af, but rwd is the most versatile fun, and awd is the king of lap times so long as you can handle it😂. Thow I can't say too much my car is fwd. P.S Torque steer is part of the fun 😂

you can use fwd understeer to your advantage if you can control the throttle by not using it while you're turning but keeping the momentum from entering the turn at somewhat of a higher speed than you normally would make the turn- been there done it ✅

I had a fwd Honda with all terrain tires and never slipped or got stuck in the winter

I’ve got a VW Scirocco Mk3 and it’s a great car. Its wide wheel base, low centre of gravity, and sporty suspension means it’s planted through corners. Weight transfer isn’t an issue. In fact I’ve probably oversteered with it more times than I’ve under steered. This only happens when really thrashing it in the wet, in the dry it literally hunkers down into the corners and won’t budge from its line at all. Only downside is it’s a little light on the front when accelerating and is gagging to wheel spin. But if you can master the launch just under the grip limit it’s a rocket ship that can give porches a run for their money

One of the biggest issues is weight transfer. When you floor your car, the force from the acceleration is gonna transfer weight away from the front wheels, leading to slower acceleration. There's a reason no sporty FWD cars have much more than 300HP, any more power and the front wheels just lose traction

I put fwd over awd in some situations

My goal is to have almost every drivetrain layout. I already have a RSX type S(FWD) SW20 MR-2(mid engine RWD), will be adding a MK3 Supra turbo to the collection soon(RWD) and lastly I really want a GR Corolla or a mint low mileage EVOX.

People who hate FWD are complete goofballs.

FWD can easily be set up for oversteer and prevent understeer. Stiffer suspension = less mechanical grip. Stiffer rear springs, stiffer rear sway bar, staggered wheel setup (wider in front, skinnier in back). A properly set up FWD car will oversteer more than RWD. There are still things that FWD can't do, but it can be mitigated to an extent. And of course, FWD is usually smaller and/or lighter overall.

Saabs where amazing, so much weight over the two front wheel you had endless grip even on snow. Really fun at backroads as you can push it hard and still have good breaking and traction.

I think people who hate on fwd just don't know how to drive them in all honesty

When companies make front wheel drive crossovers and call them SUVs and idiots call it 4 wheel drive

Fwd cars get hate because guy think they dk and fwd cars tend to have less power buh THOSE GUY ARE AMATEUR be they dont know the fundamental like power to weight ratio and how a well blance fwd car will give any car hell on the touge and as for the guy that goes in a straight line they are so ignored cuz they believe they 500 hp they weight a 3500-5000lbs will walk anything till a car that weight 2400 pulls up with 230-250 shit even 215 n right there with or they seeung sum taillights the real car community know fwd are amazing platforms with crazy potential

I have an audi tt with fwd. It’s really fun in the summer, driving on twisty roads and cruising the main roads. But in the winter on icy roads, it’s a little bit more difficult. I find it really easy to just slide forward and understeer. However, you can also have fun in the winter, especially with the handbrake and a little bit of throttle management.

There are plenty of FWD cars that suffer more from oversteer than understeer, all while being easier to correct, making them faster around corners in many situations. A lot of short wheel base hatchbacks in the sub 200hp range are monsters on track with a good driver

My TL type-s would yank the wheel out of your hand on a launch. Love a well sorted FWD

All the cars I've owned have been "sports" FWD and they ve all been great

One of my favorite things about FWD is that you can absolutely send it sideways into a corner with braking/scandi flick to initiate, and then floor the gas to recover. Tons of fun, and much more difficult to screw up than a "proper" RWD drift.

Fwd cars are also cheap for getting into cars as a hobby for example. Fwd cars tend to be more reliable also, less stuff means less stuff to go wrong. My current car is a 1999 Civic Vtec-e hatch and I got it for 1000€, Ive only paid for the welding and a CV boot replacement, everything else on the car Ive been able to fix myself with a collection of random old tools (and a couple cheap new ones, like example a piston-ring compressor, timing gun, cylinder hone, valvespring compressor and feeler-gauges) I think I wouldve needed some serious help working on something like a Benz 190 or a 3-series from the same price range.

Front wheel drive is amazing but only if you have practice

The biggest problem with FWD is the traction issues when accelerating from a stand still. It’s not because the tires are bad or anything like that. It’s because of the weight transfer shifting to the rear. Which causes the front to lift, and reduce grip on the front tires. Also, understeer is better because it’s more predictable.

“Well understeer is better because you don’t see the tree that kills you” - Richard Hammond

My first car in the USA was a 97 Volvo C70 hardtop. I bought it in '04 with 29,000mi from one of my patient's family members after she had passed. I took the train every day, and one of our flatmates was a mechanic. He taught me a lot despite doing most of it, we damn near stripped half of the car away. It was louder than anything inside without the insulation, especially with the work done to it. I'm no car expert, but it tore sh*t. I ended up selling it to him for nothing when I found my dream '95 Town Car, which set me down the road of owning only panther platform cars and putting obscene miles on them.

I firmly believe that fwd can be as fast as rwd on track

I have an appreciation for fwd from owning a 97 Integra. 65-70mph on a 35mph road in the mountains. Gripped through the turns, no understeer. when she started to oversteer, I hit the gas and pulled me out of it. Amazing car.

I have an FG2 and FK8 honda civic and it really comes down to your suspension and motor mount setup. You can make them do just about anything you want if you dial them in

Fwd cars are underrated. Sure, they're a worse platform when it comes to racing but they can be enjoyable too. Just note that too powerful fwd cars will be more likely to understeer. The most fun ones to drive are small, light ones, no need to be very powerful. Those are a blast to drive through curvy roads

Had a Volvo c70 hpt as my first car. Loved it to death, factory 17” bbs 2 piece wheels, nice bit of rasp and turbo noise from the 5 banger, thought it drove great and thought people were nuts about fwd cars being bad. Then I sold it and got an e46 with twice the miles for half the price, turned out it was 10x the drivers car my beloved Volvo was, beat the piss out of it to get my moneys worth before the 200k mile bmw croaked. Been hanging it sideways near redline almost every day for 3 years now, when not in my e30. Didn’t know a thing about bmws when I got it and assumed I’d hate working on them, turns out old ones are completely intuitive and helpful to the consumer mechanic. Couldn’t bring myself to drive an awd or fwd winter even thought I bought an auto 330xi for that exact purpose. Making every single turn sideways on a 45 minute commute for 3 months of the year is some of the most fun a person can have. Give rwd a try and you might never look back

I have owned a 2009 Nissan Altima, 2 2006 Chevy cobalts, 2 2005 Nissan Sentras, a 2003 Buick century and a 2004 Buick lesabre, a 2012 ford focus, a 2006 VW Rabbit, and a 2013 ford fiesta. All front wheel drive, all easy on the bank, all held up wonderful while I owned them. I still have half of them to my name. Others were lost to accidents and trades. In the rear wheel drive category I have a 2000 Ford Mustang, a 2006 ford f150, a 2007 Chevy trailblazer (also 4wd capable) and a 2005 BMW m3, admittedly all of which were more fun to horse around with and drive around with, even in the snow and stuff but none of them have been easy on the bank, nor fuel efficient compared to other options.

I think a lot of it comes from the fact that the driving style for FWD cars is a lot different from that of RWD cars. You need to trail brake more and you need to left foot brake. They're also harder to do fun things in sometimes. You technically can't drift them but you can slide them around pretty nicely with either a Scandinavian flick or a basic hand brake pull. With that said a fun car is a fun car. There are lots of FWD cars that are fun to drive. Just like there are lots of RWD cars that suck to drive. Surprisingly enough there's more to how a car handles and performs than it's engine layout. You need to look at the vehicle as a whole.

My dads fwd audi a6 is a BEAST when it comes to accelarating and as a passenger it feels amazing

FWD makes for the cheapest thrills you can have on the road, it is light, economical, and generally easy to work on. not the fastest, but definitely the best bang for your buck

To mitigate understeer in a front wheel drive you have to trail brake (keep the throttle open while braking).

Fwd short wheelbase cars are brilliant, Id argue due to braking effectively giving you more grip, they are better on slightly slower twisty roads. Yknow, the ones we actually like. Anyone can plant their foot and go sideways, not everyone can send a 1.1 citroen saxo down a B road faster than a beemer 😊

I have fwd, rwd and rwd car right now Bmw 325ci e46 08 wrx 03 Honda jazz (fit) All of them are so different, but have driving unique styles. you can enjoy each one for what they are in the right environment

I love my FWD Impala SS!! It's always fun to drive it whether to work,store,or just a ride just can't help myself gotta play all the time

i think the fact that it understeers is a good thing for setting up corners and trail braking because you can let off the throttle and brake early and then use that shift in weight to turn in early and throttle through 50-70% of the corner saving even more time than AWD because there’s no engine braking the rear wheels on FWD (there’s a way around it on AWD cars but my point still stands)

I built a front wheel drive road bike (pedal bike). I know the feeling torque steering well. I also built an FWD recumbent with a moving boom and a fixed boom design. It is an interesting design to use. It takes a learning curve to use it, but it I fun. I think that once you learn the feel of a fwd car, you get used to it.

Real drivers love adaptation if you dont like fwd it's your problem . Something to note , if you live in America you not gonna love fwd cause theres not many tight bends to mob around

Adjusting the suspension to under steer first make it easier for novice drivers to regain control, that’s why most cars from the factory will have suspension designed to under steer but doesn’t take full advantage of the tires grip

i love fwd, especially being in an area w a shit ton of curvy backroads. fast fwd cars are some of my favorite cars, osrs… shows anything can be fast

It is ALWAYS about your setup. If you’re understeering into a turn, let off the gas a bit. If that isn’t working for you, you need wider/stickier tires on the front at the very least. Sometimes drifting isn’t the fastest option. There are endless variables to this. My car is set up fairly well from the factory, I drive like a maniac on backroads and I’ve only understeered once and it was on Bridgestone winter treads

With a 2004 Opel Corsa B, being my first and current fwd car, I appreciate it

I like my focus st. Besides torque steer it handles like a dream

I own a 17 year old Honda Civic fd, FWD are very reliable and are easy on your pocket, only major part i changed in my car till now is the starter motor. Except that no mechanical failure till now.

I truly think 90% of FWD hate comes from driftsimps that think drifting is the pinical of driving skills. My Golf2 GTI (fwd) had amazing traction and takes corners amazingly at over 150kmh

both my mom and older brother have always owned fwd cars and that’s what really what i grew up driving and they were always fine and still were fast but until like month or 2 ago i finally got my own car that’s rwd (2014 q60) and man that was a total game changer

Should added how u can fwd handle better. Stiffer rear will help the back end slide out n then when u left off of throttle right b4 u turn will also kick out the rear. Then one u have the front of vehicle in the direction u want u just power out of it letting the fwd pull threw turn.

"THIS is why FWD get so much hate!" 1. People don't know how to drive them

As the owner of a Veloster N, FWD is awesome. Good tires make a world of difference, though that would be true on all cars.

Torque steer seems to be misunderstood. It is caused by the fact that the cv axles in a fwd are not the same length, therefore the amount they twist under load is not equal.

When I floor it in my Focus, I have to use my death grip on the wheel because it spikes left and my engine is pulling right. Wrist snap incoming

I recently bought a mazdaspeed3 after driving my old e46 for two years and the oversteer is definitely more fun but the speed3 has been a great car as well

I have a 2000lb SRT4 Neon with a close-ratio and axles on 18lbs and it’s a BLAST to drive.

I don’t know about y’all, but I can get my FWD 2005 Eclipse sideways, so… just takes a little skill, confidence, and speed into a corner.

the thing is that RWD cars handle nicely out of the box and FWD cars take either a performance package or some mods to get there but once you’re there they’re a blast

Torque steer is mostly due to the engine layout and unequal driveshaft lenghts in fwd cars. But tech has gotten better thet its less of an issue

All it takes to get a MK4 Golf/GTI to handle well is stiffer coils, better end links, and decent tires. I love my mk4 and how it can tear the shit out of mountain twisties. Its a blast.

FWD is better in every single way unless you want to drift, most people don't want to drift.

To be honsest FWD hatchbacks are one of the coolest combinatitons i've ever seen

It depends on degree and control. Oversteer can also put the car ass first into the ditch. Just like understeer can do it nose first. Choices. Which is why supercars mostly tend to be mid-engined, trying for balance. I have owned all three. The mid engine was the best handler. The front wheel drives were predictable and handled okay and predictably, and had good packaging. Good shopping/grocery getters. Like them in the snow too. Right now I drive a front wheel drive minivan. No plans to race it. Holds a lot.

I have a FWDA, it feels so good cornering it, it can fo perfect 90° turns without me needing to brake at all or not nearly as much as with RWD

My Elantra N has lift off oversteer. It’s hella fun and it never understeers in general for street limits

As a front wheel drive car owner, i think it does not deserve the hate cuz i love my car 😊

Fwd suffer from oversteer more as the rear isn’t getting power and the front is always putting it down. Only time you’d suffer understeer is from massive body roll or to quick on the throttle

I personally love the torque steer. Makes me feel more in tune with the car when mashing the throttle in a turn

The real reason to use a FWD setup is for its reliability. There are less moving parts compared to RWD or AWD meaning less points of failure. And they’re a lot simpler in nature so any repairs they need are not as expensive. Quite honestly the other setups are just if you want to have fun or are towing, but most people aren’t doing that.

some older fwd peugeots and citroens (newest of them was from the 2000s) used to oversteer underbraking

man im having a blast in my vw up gti, its fwd, small 115 hp and lightweight, easy to drive and fun

if you want to be a fast driver it's important to get experience with different drivetrains and setups. I have definitely gained a lot of speed by noticing the differences from one car and the next, the difference in handling and acceleration causes you to notice things and conciously think about them when before you hadn't. Racing theory is a lot of turning the unconciously unknown into the conciously unknown, into the conciously known, into the unconciously known. in short you go from not knowing, to feeling, to thinking, to not needing to think.

If you want a good FIRST FWD race car, that is great in the corners. 2012 Mazda 3 with 2.0L skyactiv. 70/30 weight bias with 150hp. Once you stiffen the frame via strut/sway/torsion bars, it's like the car is on rails! Get an engine tune after the bolt on mods, and you have a daily driver that feels like a race car....

If you balance fwd right it can handle incredibly, full steering input with no oversteer or understeer makes fast cornering

it's a different driving style. you can tune suspension to make a fwd tail happy and being able to accelerate to correct overdrift is just great. old hot hatches were gods at this. it's exactly opposite to rwd, which can look cleaner but you mess up and that's it, you're kissing a guardrail, crashing or spinning.

I love my FWD car, it's really fun in curves and yeah, it can get extremely scary if done wrong. But pulling handbrake on them is so much fun.

Torque steering is pretty cool in my opinion. Though I'm the wrong person to ask considering I am a modified front wheel drive enjoyer.

Everyone at achool used to say yhat you couldn't do skids in a fwd, so i had the responsibility yo prove them wrong and could actually do some pretty impressive stuff especially on dirt roads or paddocks, the key is to use the handbreak but also spin the front wheels, front wheels spinning and rear wheels locked makes for some fun circles

Soft in the front stiff in the back and reverse stagger and you can pretty much eliminate understeer

Need to send this to my buddy who just got a mk7 golf gti that he drives like a pagani and everytime that torque steer kick in he goes “DID YOU JUST FEEL THAT THE TIRES LIT UP”

My main issue is the lack of dig on acceleration, the weight shifts onto the back wheels more than the front.

I have an ST focus, i love it, it's designed to want to oversteer, if you drive it correctly.... Process of vehicle control.

In a FWD you stop the oversteer with the accelerator and you use the e brake light to stop under steer

I took my 270bhp FWD Peugeot RCZ-R out for a spin today on British B-roads. My brother has a 350bhp AWD Focus RS and my pal has a 385bhp AWD Audi S3. Neither of them could get away from me.

Fwd is pretty good in the snow tho so I like it. Pills you through it instead of pushing up a wall in front of the car. I don’t drive one but my bud hasn’t gotten stuck in his FWD here in colorado yet. Granted, our snow isn’t a permanent fixture like it is in other states.

I’ve driven AWD, RWD, and FWD. I daily an AWD Mazda3 Turbo. All are fun. Each has benefits and drawbacks.

FWD is definitely underrated compared to most other cars

I raced my 95 2 liter Sentra against a 325i on a road course. On straights I would catch up, on turns he would pull away. On each other’s bumpers all day.

For a regular driver fwd is much better, understeering will only occur when you're going way too fast, instead oversteering can happen just like that