abn562;5402805 said:
konceptjones;5400765 said:
rage;5400512 said:
konceptjones;5400197 said:
FWD???
Remember kids: V8 + FWD = No Bueno.
Uhhh...these are all RWD...
Bet. Then it makes sense.
I, for one, am glad that RWD is making a strong comeback. The dark days of big ass/powerful ass engines in FWD cars may be over soon.
nigga wtf? rwd coming back? where have you been thats always been here, unless your just looking at honda drag vids on youtube lol
From the 80's to the early 00's, GM had been something like 95% FWD.
The only cars Ford made that were RWD during the same era was the Mustang/Capri (until the Capri replacement came based on a FWD platform), Thunderbird/Cougar (until the 1999–2002 FWD Cougar), and the Crown Vic/Town Car/Grand Marquis triplets.
Chrysler had only two RWD cars during this era: The Dodge Viper and the Plymouth Prowler.
Honda has had ONE RWD car - the S2000.
Mazda, same thing: The RX7, and later the RX8.
Nissan had two platforms for RWD in America: The Silvia (Nissan S12 200SX, S13/14 240SX) and the ZX platform (300ZX).
Toyota had some interesting RWD cars, but they were all converted to FWD during this time. The Celica and Supra started out as RWD (back when the Supra was the Celica Supra), then 86 hit and they were split into two models, the Celica becoming FWD and the Supra retaining it's RWD. The Corolla had a hot RWD coupe in the 80's, but was bastardized into a FWD joint as the decade wore on, and the Cressida was also RWD (IIRC).
GM's most famous cars from the 70's and early 80's were turned into FWD cars during the late 80's (Monte Carlo, Regal, Grand Prix, Malibu, Impala, etc)
At one point during the late 80's/early 90's GM was almost done with a replacement for the Camaro that was based on a FWD Opel. Only public outcry stopped it from being released.
The FWD Ford Probe was supposed to be the replacement for the Fox platform Mustang. Again, only public outcry stopped this.
The Dodge Viper was originally supposed to be based on Chrysler's shitty FWD K-Car platform. When the public caught wind of it, they wrote a mountain of letters to Iacoca in protest.
The Big 3 has pushed FWD on us and are now beginning to see the error of their ways.
