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Originally Posted by DGthe3
I never claimed that the Cobalt SS was slow. I even considered buying one. But having a handful of quick fwd cars does not make fwd cars fast. The overwhelming majority of performance cars have rwd and to my knowledge, there are significantly more 600+ hp rwd cars offered than there are 300+ hp fwd.
It comes down to sticking with what you're good at. I don't expect to see a RWD economy car cracking 40 mpg and neither do I expect to see a FWD supercar. Either one is technically possible, but it just doesn't make any sense to actually do it because of the inherent limitations of the configuration.
When I did a google search, the fastest Honda I could find was something like 8.9s and was from this past summer. Can you link to the 7.Xs car?
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Never did I imply that you thought the SS/TC was slow. It was only used as an example of a FWD vehicle beating AWD/RWD in (and above) their price range, despite the belief they are inferior vehicles based on their drivetrain configuration. That's the same idea as saying the mustang is inferior just because of it has an outdated live-axle suspension.
Quantity doesn't equal one being better than another. It only takes one FWD vehicle in order for FWD vehicles to be potentially fast, and that is the point of the argument.
Using your same argument, you would have to agree that alone, being without other variables that make a car as a whole, RWD is inferior to AWD. Even though you claim that since RWD supercars are more plentiful, RWD would have to be superior to AWD. To the contrary, we both know that just by comparing their limits, AWD is in fact better than RWD.
I'll link you too the 7s later when I get home, I'm on my iPhone lol.