must admit after years of FWD,RWD powerfull cars the AWD is defanatly the better out of the lot for the grip on out roads, had my 1st scoob at 23 that was 8 years ago and a lot of fast jap cars inbetween then and now both FWD and RWD as well as another scoob, wound never go back to either FWD or RWD in a performance car again, even the family car is AWD now a blobeye 2.0l sport wagon