Bmw's Front-Wheel Drive Car Spied

[Birds]

Yes agreed there are tons of factors involved, hence I say all things equal in the vehicles.

But given the ridiculous number of variables, I'd gauge it by the best of what people have actually achieved with each setup, for that is the only real determinant we have. It's not perfect, but real world results are what matters. It's no good saying AWD has better potential than RWD down the strip if we haven't been able to prove it yet. Until that happens it's just theory. One of the largely unacknowledged factors, for example, is that drag racing has always been a traditionally RWD motorsport...so with many more teams focusing on development for RWD applications, this will obviously effect what is being done for AWD in terms of improvement down the quarter.

Ridiculous but applicable hypothetical: if someone said to me and another person, make the fastest drag car you possibly can, winner gets a million bucks....my drivetrain choice would go RWD, FWD and AWD.

Most drag races happen at the traffic lights anyway...with cars that usually do anything from 12-17 second quarter miles...in which case...all wheel drive is pretty easy to get it going consistently quick.

[Nee-san]

It was always going to end up that way when you have news of a FWD car put up on a fan forum where the cars are not gay

FYP mayne

[simpletool]

BMW did say they would never make FWD. Just sayin'

Well OK, it was a spokesperson for BMW.

Edited July 11, 2011 by simpletool

[Nee-san]

Yes agreed there are tons of factors involved, hence I say all things equal in the vehicles.

But given the ridiculous number of variables, I'd gauge it by the best of what people have actually achieved with each setup, for that is the only real determinant we have. It's not perfect, but real world results are what matters. It's no good saying AWD has better potential than RWD down the strip if we haven't been able to prove it yet. Until that happens it's just theory. One of the largely unacknowledged factors, for example, is that drag racing has always been a traditionally RWD motorsport...so with many more teams focusing on development for RWD applications, this will obviously effect what is being done for AWD in terms of improvement down the quarter.

Ridiculous but applicable hypothetical: if someone said to me and another person, make the fastest drag car you possibly can, winner gets a million bucks....my drivetrain choice would go RWD, FWD and AWD.

Most drag races happen at the traffic lights anyway...with cars that usually do anything from 12-17 second quarter miles...in which case...all wheel drive is pretty easy to get it going consistently quick.

AWD has it's advantages when your in a traction limited environment although I'm not just talking when its wet or your driving on gravel etc.

talking street redialed tyres on pretty much any car I would prefer AWD, with the benefits of each platform increasing with the level of power output your talking about.

I'll leave the rest of the discussion in the other thread for now.