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Ok, back on track! 
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I can confirm there is no clutch pedal, its an electrickery controlled clutch. I went and sat in one to check but no test drive was forthcoming
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It's funny that all the old ads say FWD handles so well, because in a similarly sized/weighted car it really sucks. I can say this from experience. Pushing a FWD car to the limit is not as exciting (or effective) as it should be.
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But yes, size - my preference has always been for small cars, even a Focus would make me think I'm pulling a lot of weight and area around I'm not using. FWD can be exciting and reqarding "on the limit", you need to experience an original Mini (below) or a Peugeot 205 GTI. This guy is having fun.
The latter (the 205 GTI) I would take a small bet on being able to keep pace with the BMW 335 on a twisty road, and as for a Mustang the 205 would pull away - and this was a car from 1984. It can extreme though, this big Italian saloon / sedan has a Ferrari V8 in it from the 308/328 series - from the factory.
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In an ideal world every car would be all wheel drive, all wheel steer.
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AWD - In a car intended for bad weather or conditions then it is required. For a normal car for normal use I would say the additional weight, and complexity are a waste. There are quite a few threads with people running Subarus who don't get good FE vs similarly sized cars which do. Plus of course the guy who said 200hp is the limit for FWD was working for Audi selling us the benefits of something called Quattro. People here have taken SAAB 9000s to 350 and 400hp with FWD.
AWS - I think this was a fad introduced in the mid-80s by Honda and Mazda who were in a technology war at the time - the 626 Coupe vs the Prelude I think. Again for normal drivers in normal cars (not a Nissan GTR for example) AWS has little advantage over improved suspension design which we have now with things like passive rear steer.
Plus of course to take advantages of these advanced systems would take the skills of a driving god.
Which of course we all are, no ?
