*rant* I absolutely hate the "its a FWD so cannot put power down" or "its a FWD, so it must be crap" brigade, especially when most are dynosaurs of a lost era. http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results..../2008.WAKE.S3.Y Look at the 1st 3 cars - Both Civic in position 2 & 3 are street registered NA cars barely pushing 150kw The skyline at the top is 400kw. Modern FWDs can easily keep and outpace alot of lot RWD cars. I've also seen and driven a number of FWDs putting out in excess of 300kw at the front wheels and they have no problems putting the power down. I never really experienced any torque steer on the Aurion? About 150kw at the wheels. Never said that FWD setup is crap but rather has limitations by design, the fact that FWD configurations have a dual role to steer and put the power down vs a AWD or RWD setup. Yes FWD cars can be made to go quick but my point is that for a like for like setup FWD cars come out second best vs a RWD or AWD setup. If FWD setups are so good why is that high performance manufacturers (Porsche, Ferrari etc) choose a RWD/AWD setup?? What about all the quickest motorsports racing series around the world like F1, indy, NASCAR, they are all RWD. Don't get me wrong i don't dislike FWD step ups as most of my previous cars have been FWD Honda Integra, TX5 turbo, Honda Accord Euro and now Aurion (1 AWD - WRX), but like i said they have their limitations by design. With the front struts and rear sway bar it has really improved the handling of the Aurion and used in sports mode i really enjoy driving the Aurion now as i have come to grips with the handling characteristics of the car. I am now used to corrective driving to combat the torque steer under full load but i still stand by the fact that the torque steer in the Aurion should have been engineered out and not something left to the driver to correct it especially in a modern day vehicle.