10 Front Wheel Drive Sports Cars That Prove FWD Is Not For The Feeble
We’ve heard it a million times before: for a sports car to get any sort of street cred from car enthusiasts, the engine has to spin the rear wheels and only the rear wheels. You can debate this until the middle of next week, but even if you don’t care about things like weight distribution or understeering, it’s tough to argue that some of the very best sports cars and performance cars throughout history have been RWD. Porsche Caymans, Toyota Supras and MR2s, BMW M3s, and all the other stuff that enthusiasts are ready to part ways with several paychecks for.
The fact remains, however, that some more of the best-driving cars throughout history have driven the front wheels. The Peugeot 205 GTI and various generations of the Golf GTI, for example. So what exactly is the matter with taking those solid FWD platforms and sticking them in a sporty coupe body? Jeremy Clarkson may have said that FWD is for the feeble, but with the right ingredients, it doesn’t need to be. Here are some cars that prove it.