Car & Bike Which-wheel (front/rear) drive are these cars?

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vishalrao

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Can't seem to locate info about whether these cars are front or rear wheel drive:

Honda Civic
Mitsubishi Cedia
Honda City
Ford Fiesta
Toyota Corolla Altis

Any ideas?
 
vishalrao said:
Can't seem to locate info about whether these cars are front or rear wheel drive:

Honda Civic

Mitsubishi Cedia

Honda City

Ford Fiesta

Toyota Corolla Altis

Any ideas?
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All the above are Front Wheel Drive(FWD).

The Mitsubishi Lancer EVO is 4WD. :D
 
ya baby, that would mean the nano jumps everything else around the corners :D

mad powerslides and what not :bleh:
 
RWD has benefits over FWD. but scene and driver dependant. I like RWD for track, and FWD for street, but maybe I am weird, so it shouldnt count.
 
Crazy_Eddy said:
The Tata Nano is RWD :ohyeah:
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RWD = you have to push the the dabba to go anywhere :ohyeah:

I posted the thread coz I've always felt that the "push" of RWD "feels" better than the "pull" of FWD when you floor the throttle... (maybe its coz of the general benefits like 50/50 weight distribution) but since all of them are FWD.... bah

(and its not like im going track racing or anything like that - just city driving).
 
^ are the new ones still rwd? [strike] i thought they might have switched to fwd now. [/strike]

edit: its still rwd.
 
The old Fiats were RWD. By Fiat, I mean Premier Padminis. Dad owned a few and all of them rally spec. He has a few paper cuttings from the 1980s with powersliding Fiats shown in the pics.
 
FWD tends to understeer out of a corner, and oversteer in. RWD is almost the opposite. RWD with a front engine requires a driveshaft through the car. Sometimes in the passenger cabin, which is why modern city cars are all FWD. They prevent that horrible tunnel in the middle of the cabin and the associated NVH and heat.

I have powerslid a few FWD cars and they do it just fine, as long as you judge the apex correctly. Too high a speed into the corner and the car will swap ends, too slow and it will grate through the turn instead of smoothly sliding. There are a few roads (I remember three or four) in Mumbai where you do not need much to get a slide going, just a speed of around 45-50 and the correct turn ;)
 
My Cedia slides even without trying these days. Its just too easy on advan neovas :D

Anyway only BMW & Mercedes are nice handling RWD cars available in India for a not so obnoxious price. Its pretty easy to spot if a vehicle is rear wheel drive - just look at where the differential is :P. AWDs/4WDs will have differentials in both the front and rear.

Also the EVO is full time AWD (all wheel drive). 4WD is used only in the context of SUVs.
 
Lets not forget the qualis is RWD. You can get the back to slide out at 20 kmh, although i doubt its because of RWD :P
 
^^Qualis doesn't have an LSD. As I said - the back should slide out only when you want it to. If it keeps sliding all the time, then its a bad car :P.
 
The Qualis can slide into a corner for sure, but I don't know if it'll appear at the exit of the corner the right way up.
 
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