What are good four wheel drive four door cars?

What are the main differences between front wheel drive, rear wheel drive and four wheel drive cars?

  • What is the differences in driving experience, fuel consumption, contact of car with road? Can I know weather my car is front wheel drive or rear wheel drive by driving it and not actually knowing it?

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    A front wheel drive car exerts torque through the front tyres onto the road. This inherently means that if you apply the throttle while turning in a particular direction, the torque will exert in a tangential direction to your turning radius - this means you'll have understeer. Rear wheel drive cars will show the same affect albeit at the rear tyres, meaning that the car will have a tendency to throw it's rear wheels into a slide (if it is sufficiently powerful or if the tyres have sufficiently low grip). This means that the car will show signs of oversteer - hence the reason why BMW insists on using RWD config on all cars. It makes controlling more direct and nimble. AWD cars, as far as I know, they have worse fuel effficiency than the other two (presumably due to transfer box losses maybe). I've read that AWD cars feel really stable, and in some realistic racing games, I've realised that I can pull out of a skid during a turn with really good control.

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In front wheel drive,power reaches only on front two wheels,the remaining two rear wheels rotate due to rotation of front two wheels.rear wheels are not connecte with engine. same thing happens in rear wheel drive,power is reached on rear wheels only.front wheels rotate automatically on the result of rotation of rear wheels. four wheel drive means power coming out from engine are provided on the all the four wheels at the same time unlike front and rear wheel drive(you can say it as atwo wheel drive).All the SUVs are four wheel drive. they consume more fuel,give less efficiency.

Tushar Makwana

For a good AWD, the fuel consumption is imperceptibly worse.  You'll never notice.  Many AWD are biased in one direction or another.  The Subaru automatic was (may be still) almost pure FWD, when not slipping.  This would make it nearly impossible to tell AWD from FWD in regular driving, and fuel economy.  Others bias towards the back (the 911).  The Subaru manual and Skyline AWD don't bias towards either and simply deliver more power to the slipping wheel(s).  Whether they do so through strategic use of brakes, or locking slipping transfer cases is something almost nobody would be able to tell by driving it. If you want to find out, pull into sand, or mud.  Floor it.  See which wheels throw up mud/sand.  Not much more can be done driving it, unless you can drive closer to the limits of the car than I'd assume from someone who would ask such a question.

Marc Whinery

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