Once again, words without substance!  Give me an example.  Don't just say stuff without backing it up.  Check out the Speed Vision Challenge racing series, which is a major racing event that takes place at most of the American Le Mans Series events, Mazda Protege MP3's were beating E36 3-series on a consistant basis.  That's a fwd 4 cylinder vs. a rwd 6cylinder in case you didn't know.  I'm not going to try and argue that fwd is better overall, that would be foolish.  True most race cars are rwd and awd, as they can get more power to the ground and pull out of corners harder, but fwd isn't as awful as people think it is.  Grippy tires, good suspension tuning, and a nice limited slip differental can transform a car from termainal understeer to controlable oversteer.  I'm not trying to start a huge rant here, but you gotta do some research and actually know what your talking about before you start claiming to know it all.  Saying things like that doesn't make you any better then the dumb kid with a Si who thinks an intake and exhaust will make his car run 12's.  It's a shame that you don't see more nicely done imports, that are well rounded, as oppossed to the dragster's that american culture promotes.  No where else in the world is 1/4 racing all that important, so I'd be very willing to guess that there are plenty of these nice turning and well rounded compacts in other parts of the world where the owners have not been raised in a culture that mainly promotes straight line speed without an emphasis on other aspects of car performance.  Alight, I'll stop now.
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