[jwasbury]

Why the rant?

While I agree that AWD is not strictly necessary in a performance street car, why should we think its a negative? I'd be no more or less happy with my 997tt if if were RWD rather than AWD...BUT then it would be a GT2 and would have cost 2x (or 3x).

I will say that there have been occasions when I have felt the front wheels driving the car, pulling it around a corner. Specifically a decently tight corner when cresting a hill, hard on the power. Without AWD perhaps the car would have slid a bit, or I wouldn't have been able to give it as much gas. More likely, stability control would have kicked in.

In the 997tt, the AWD is not any more unnecessary than the 500ft/lbs of torque available in overboost mode.