Subaru Forester III - AWD v RWD

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Wed 5 May 2010 15:01
Subaru Forester III - AWD v RWD - Spartacus02

How much more beneficial is having All wheel driver as opposed to rear wheel drive. My knowledge of AWD is that is usefl when going off road and not that important when driving around town.

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Wed 5 May 2010 15:47
Subaru Forester III - AWD v RWD - nick

Have a look on www.subaru.co.uk where you can find good descriptions and explanations of the benefits of AWD. I've driven Subarus for years, Legacy, Impreza and Forester and can highly recommend them. You'll get plenty of opinion that it's not worth having etc etc usually from those who've never owned one for any length of time but have a drive and make your own mind up. It does make a difference especially in wet or slippy conditions.

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Wed 5 May 2010 17:57
Subaru Forester III - AWD v RWD - Paul G1pdc

hello.

my father in laws on his second legacy 2.5litre now a 3iltre version.

i've had my 2litre impreza for a while now.

A subaru AWD is completly different to drive than a rwd car, the grip and corning with the low slung horizonally opposed boxer engine as compaired to the average cars vertical 4 cylinder is amazing, the lower center of gravity and the AWD are great. OK OK in the good weather whats the point, but in the 10months of the year we have rain/ice/snow thats just the summer months there great...I'm speaking as a father of 2 young boys, we have 2 family estate cars. The boys love daddies "scooby" as they call it because its different from the usual mond-vetrca-deo and doesn't get stuck at the childrens under 7s football ground in the winter, or when I take part in running events and have to park in farmers fields...hahahah....

(the sport wagon AKA estate has a high/low ratio, the saloon doesn't)

Paul.

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