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Originally Posted by pwd72s View Post
My bad...I don't follow Japanese car features much..
The prodigious cloud of smoke rolling off of the back tires is usually a clue too.

FWD cars have a helluva time doing doughnuts. I'd sort of always thought that rwd made it easier to "drift" a car around a corner. A fwd car can't has a harder time maintaining a slide because you can't modulate the traction of the rear axle with the throttle the way you can in a rwd car.
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