Which FWD Car Do You Guys Like?
 

I know fwd isn't as superior as rwd or awd but I've always love fwd car for some reason. Don't get me wrong, I do love rwd a lot especially if it's a mid engine rwd. My favorite fwd cars of all time are the Honda Civic , Honda Prelude, & the Mini Cooper. What about yours?

In my case that's pretty obvious :roll:
Volvo 480 Turbo

If I'd have to go back to FWD, I think I won't go to far from the hatches class.. Clio and Mini for instance.. or an Integra too :D

Honda Civic 8)

Same here!!

and Peugeot hatches :)

renault Clio sport 155MPH, or Golf GTI.

while Ford Racing Puma is pathetic.

Mini cooper S, Honda Civic or Integra Type-R, Peugeot 206

Civic Type R. Definetly!! !8)

Alfa Romeos, Peugeots, Audis, Minis, Fiat Barchetta and Coupé, Honda Civic and Accord (Type-R), Renaultsport Clio, Saabs, Volvos.

All FWD, but I like them for different reasons.

Acura CL 3.0

That would be the honda's, the integra R and the civic R.
Alfa Romeo is also great, sad that the GTA versions don't have a visco diff in front

http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~caspar/integra.jpg

http://alfistas.arg.8k.com/Files/156-GTA.jpg

FWD.....ill goe with the saab 9-3 Arc (w/turbo) other choices would go to... Focus RS... i do believe that is it (grr, focus rs should be awd)

Is that the one with the engine behind the front seats?

Nope, the Clio Sport is the "normal" one.. the one with the MR layout is the Clio V6

Oh I see. It seems most of us here agree about the Civic. Well, in my opinion, the Civic is the best Japanese FWD car though. I must say the Prelude comes next to the Civic.

hmm, this seems to be true.... and i have always wondered why, the car really is nothing special to me....ive driven 3 of them, and they wernt that great. civic 3.0 v6 autobox, 2 manuel civic 4 bangers
but thats just my opinion

Well, I think beside the Type R, all the Civics aren't fast or any special at all in stock form. I personally likes it because it's small, light, very affordable, & has potential to be pretty lethal in the circuit. In stock form, I love the Honda Prelude especially the latest generation one. The ATTS (Active Torque Transfer System) on that car really rocks.

The Alfa Romeo 156 GTA is nice, but I think I'd go for the SAAB 9-3 Aero. It's one of the best looking original styled family saloons on the market, and the driving pleasure in this car is hard to beat. In addition it handels very neutral under normal conditions. Of course you get understeer if you floor it in a corner(with 210bhp), but during normal active driving it's just good fun!

http://www.oshit.org/upload/store/9-3Aero.jpg

Focus RS for sure, looks awsome, handles amazingly (other than realy rough roads i know) and almost all that have been rolling roaded have come away wiv results way up on specification!!
That alfa 147 GTA is smart as well, but no limited slip differential means a but of a nitemare wiv that much power, and bye bye tyres!!! Sounds nice tho!

I own a mazda 6 so I guess I'll take that.

for me, this thread is like.... what is the best way to have a toe cut off?


but im amazed no one has mentioned the dodge neon srt-4. those things kick pretty much every fwd car's ass from here to bangladesh. plus, unlike the hondas, it actually has damn good TORQUE!!! :twisted:

i agree that the SRT-4 has great torque/hp, and is the fastest stock compac, as well as a very good suspension set up. the reason i didnt mention it is this.... i loath the looks. it is a uncle ben-ified rental car. but that is my opinion (ill still take it way over any honda!

Mini Cooper S all the way.. This is the car which I don't really mind.. ..
Also the SRT neon.. or something like that..Thanks to gis for making it look so good to me.. :lol: :lol:

i can ignore the looks(which really wouldnt be bad if none of us ever knew what a neon was in the first place), but IMO it looks waaaay better than any stock civic. i mean seriously i cant believe some of you guys think of a base honda civic as the greatest fwd car. they understeer like crazy from the factory, are totally gutless, and have to be stripped out to make up for it. it's a freakin economy car. i honestly dont even like the integra type-r's. they might have decent handling for fwd, but it's still that same gutless feeling when laying into the gas.


~waits for flaming and puts on heat suit~ lol

i own a protege, so ill go with that

TEAM MAZDA WUT! hahaha

first choice is the
Toyota Celica GTS vvtl-i.. the cockpit feels nice and imo, the engine is pretty advance and sophisticated having continuous cam-phasing variable valve timing ,2-stage variable valve lift plus valve-opening duration applied to both intake and exhaust valves . givng variable lift and duration lift at high rev. all from a 1.8L 4cyl pumping 190bhp.

next up would be.
Integra typeR vtec
RSX typeS i-vtec

The SRT-4 is a pretty fast car. I was quite impressed by it until I drove it. It's fast on a straight but it doesn't handle as well for some reason. My co-worker just leased one and he agrees with me either.

As for a base Civic, yea, from the factory it is not the car where you want to take it to a local circuit right away. Definitely needs a lot of work to be done to it unless it's a Civic Type R maybe. I don't know, I never drove one before but I had a Civic EF before and yes, it is SUPER slow when it's bone stock. After few works done to it, it's a pretty fun car to drive on the road or at the circuit.

I, myself, always been a Honda fan, especially the Civic for a long time already. Everyone has their own preference. I would love to have a Mini as my next car though. As for now, I'm still having fun with my Prelude.

from the hatchback category
1.FORD FOCUS RS
2.Honda CIVIC TYPE R
:lol:

I love hatchback. Actually that's how I love the Civic in the beginning because of the hatchback.

isnt the celica considered a hatch as well?

yeah I go for the volvo,but I reckon 850 T5-R is the best FWD they ever made.
http://www.volvoadventures.com/S40r.jpg
The reason why I like volvo.^^^

Ther are some of them that I would choose, like the Civic Type-R, Alfa 147 GTA, Focus RS, 850 R, The new Mini Cooper S (John Cooper Works). Are many of them.

My preference goes to the Civic Type-R or the 850 R.

If i had to go with a FWD car, I'd probably either get a Mini Cooper S or the new Acura TL (I love those). maybe sone others, but those two are the only ones coming to my mind right now at 8:00am :roll:

i dont mind the civic's and integra's and the new supercharged mini
this is a friends turbo lancer
http://www.fullboost.com.au/racing/d...03_12_029b.jpg
the guy that built the engine is the same guy that built EVILMR (some of the aussies here may have heard of it) an 11 sec lancer with almost 300kw at the wheels which was featured in a recent issue of ZOOM magazine

Focus RS is best fwd,but integra type-r is also very fast.

you know, i almost forgot..... even more then these hot hatches, and sports compacts.... what about V8's :-D !!!
ill go with any FWD Cadilac (but not the Deville) with the Northstar V8... 320ponies whoops all the rest of these hatches, even tho they are heavy beasts!

^^ till you come to those little things called corners!!!!! :wink:

quite true, but the caddy is about as compfortable as you can get, remember. (id still prefer german lux, or a v8 Jag to one.. but this is a FWD thread)

LOL,the video doin 160 with just a couple mods changed you,i knew it would.quite amazing,

i would say the srt-4 but as this car is not in my country i would have to say civic and integra type R.197hp for the civic and 220 for the integra,just a nice limit for the FWD cars.pleanty of civic type R around here.other than those i would say citroen saxo VTR and VTS (dunno why :roll: ) clio and golf,but th eolder ones are better IMO,the VR6 for sure

I like all FWD-cars which have many BHP but haven't got plenty of understeer. Vr6s GTAs etc have many BHP but too much understeer to have fun in corners.

Alfa 147 GTA or Renault Clio

would any of you choose the old PUNTO GT?????

i loved my old Pontiac Grand Prix, that was really fun in the snow. Front wheel drive was good for recovering from slides. the only bad thing was the ABS, just made it a little harder to brake-induce a slide, but with enough turn-in on a slick road it would happen still :)
my and and before that i loved my old Cadillac DeVille, that thing would really slide around in the winter, great fun :D and it didn't have ABS, either, so you could lock the brakes quickly and slide down a hill :P

Wow, I never know that the Northstar V8 Cadillac is a FWD. I always thought all Cadillac is a RWD. What about the Catera? Is that a FWD or RWD?

They were about 50x50. Now they are swapping back to rwd. They currently only have 1 rwd car in their lineup.

Really? Now they only have one RWD car in their line up? Which one is that?

Celica of course...

SRT-4 is probably the badest FWD car out right now, esp the '04 model, with a LSD and ~240hp, tons of torque & nice exhaust note. Civic Type-R, which managed to beat an S2000 around a track on 5th Gear (I think 5th Gear); Alfa GTA, turbo Saabs.

Alfa 147 GTA
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Pilot

definitely Focus RS...

FWD Cars
 

In my case ... Audi A3 1.8 T ...

definetly a wolf in sheep's clothing ... ;-)