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Originally Posted by Mixer
I love how you dismiss some of the greatest driving cars of the recent era...
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Sorry, I don't follow.
No question those
are better driving cars but you can't put four people and luggage or ikea flatpack or a washing machine in them like you can with a hatchback.
The lightest practical (sporty) RWD cars tend to be at least 1500kg (and very expensive since they are mostly prestige cars), a lot heavier and more expensive than (sporty) FWD hatchbacks.
If there was a sedan version of a 86 or S2000 that would be
very appealing, but there isn't. The best you can do is a BMW, ideally the wailing straight six with the vanos, or the later turbos, but they start to get expensive, they have issues as a used car, etc etc.
This Honda FWD junkie eventually picked up his BMW M3 dream car (obviously there aren't many honda RWD choices, honda only offered the impactical s2000 or very expensive nsx in recent times), but he is the first to say it's perhaps the m3 is not *that much* more thrilling than his Integra despite the RWD and how much more it costs.
Just sayin' that fwd is not that bad. The BTCC is a lot of fun to this day. Plus the FWD cars, the majority, have a very good chance to save spins which makes for some great biff and barge action without the victims ending up in the grass as ofton as they might do.