Which FWD car should have been released in RWD?

Rhetorical question, which FWD cars had the styling and looks and should have been RWD? My example: Forth and fifth gen Prelude. These would have been great as RWD coupes...

Tempos. Turbo 5 speed Tempos.

last gen MS3. Or All wheel drive, I guess, but RWD would had me trading in my Mustang on it.

All of them.

Well, most of them. Certain LBCs are exempt.

The Cadillac Eldorado!

Buick Reatta. Imagine if it had been mid engined / RWD.

The Del Sol should have been a mid engine rwd car.

I think as great as the 88-91 Civic/CRX's were, they would have been even better if they had been RWD, or better yet, AWD. But I'm like Realminidriver, I think most if not all of them should have been RWD.

I am not anti FWD, in fact I now own two of them and love them. But there are some cars you can't help thinking missed the mark.

I know there was/is a guy on here with an M100 Elan, but you can't help thinking the Lotus engineers started crying in their beer as soon as the Miata was launched and cut the wheels out from under them.

Saab 9-5... would compete with 3/5 series bmw

RealMiniDriver wrote: All of them.

QFT!

any car with greater than 200hp.

I remember being very disappointed when I found out the 5th gen Prelude was FWD.

I think Ford should have made these RWD.

I always wished my old '96 MX6 was RWD, with about 250 hp.

And the 2014 Mazda6, which is about 100 hp short of awesome, would be even awesomer if it were RWD, too.

Adrian_Thompson wrote: I am not anti FWD, in fact I now own two of them and love them. But there are some cars you can't help thinking missed the mark. I know there was/is a guy on here with an M100 Elan, but you can't help thinking the Lotus engineers started crying in their beer as soon as the Miata was launched and cut the wheels out from under them.

I think we have a winner! If this had been RWD (like every other real lotus, right?) then we would have had an S2000 a decade sooner. It had some sort of turbo powerplant, no?

The current Honda Accord V-6 six speed.

I don't know about the Fusion being RWD, but Ford really screwed up by going FWD with the 500/Montego. When the car was first "pitched" at auto shows, the idea seemed to be a re-invention of the mid '60s Galaxie 500s and/or LTD complete with a V8 engine and RWD. Folks thought that FINALLY, Ford was going to produce a successor to the (aging) Panther platform with retro styling and (perhaps?) independent rear suspension like the Mustang FINALLY has. They gave us a decent car that looked vaguely like the concepts but with the same engine as the lighter/less expensive/more nimble Fusion. Heck, if they had just offered an optional V8 in the 500/Montego, the car might have done better than it did.

And yes, I realize the 500/Montego did have IRS.

1988-1992 626 Turbo.

This: 250hp Highway cruiser. Made decent FWD burnouts, RWD would have been awesome.

Grtechguy,

you do realize that the Aurora was supposed to be a "re-imaging" of the Toronado? Built on the same platform as a Riviera but with 4 doors instead of the Toro's 2 so that it could be both a flagship/halo model and take the place of Oldsmobile's disappearing sedans for "mature" customers. But still, it might of made a decent RWDer. Heck, they could have made these optional AWDers and had a car that no other GM division had.

Did any GM division ever produce an AWD car? Not SUV or truck, but AWD sedan?

Scion tc and dodge dart

In reply to honda_acuras:

Pontiac 6000

In reply to Adrian_Thompson:

The old Elans were RWD, I don't know why they thought ruining the car would be a good idea.

Here is my take. The Audi Quattro was a great car, first production 4 wheel drive car. They looked good and so did their little brother, the Audi Coupe GT. Heck the Coupe GT had the tunnel already in place to be a rear wheel drive car. It could have worked and been a great platform.

Cheers; Mike Kirby

A2 VW GTIs.