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Ultimate Car Guy · 01-03-2007, 10:23 PM

In my opinion a RWD car will always have more potential to be a driver's car than a FWD vehicle. It always has to do with balance, and a RWD can attain a 50/50 weight distribution with less compromise than a FWD car.

I believe Audi's MPL will be very promising. It will be a major improvement over the current offerings and it will challenge the RWD BMWs and Mercs in ride comfort if not handling. But at the end of the day it will still remain a FWD, which has far less potential than RWD to be dynamically superior.

I'm not an engineer, but if i were Audi, i would not only focus on building a platform which pushes the characteristics of FWD closer to RWD. I would focus on reducing WEIGHT. I believe that Audi has the advantage over BMW and MB is mass producing aluminium construction. And it has to use this expertise as a weapon to compete with BMWs dynamics prowess.

01-03-2007, 10:23 PM	#28 (permalink)
Ultimate Car Guy Enthusiast Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 207 Thanks: 17 Thanked 19 Times in 16 Posts	Re: Clash of the titans. Whos ready??? In my opinion a RWD car will always have more potential to be a driver's car than a FWD vehicle. It always has to do with balance, and a RWD can attain a 50/50 weight distribution with less compromise than a FWD car. I believe Audi's MPL will be very promising. It will be a major improvement over the current offerings and it will challenge the RWD BMWs and Mercs in ride comfort if not handling. But at the end of the day it will still remain a FWD, which has far less potential than RWD to be dynamically superior. I'm not an engineer, but if i were Audi, i would not only focus on building a platform which pushes the characteristics of FWD closer to RWD. I would focus on reducing WEIGHT. I believe that Audi has the advantage over BMW and MB is mass producing aluminium construction. And it has to use this expertise as a weapon to compete with BMWs dynamics prowess.