# AWD or RWD?

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [February 13, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awd-or-rwd/24501 "2007-02-13T13:17:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![RobY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RobY](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobY)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awd-or-rwd/24501/111 "2007-02-15T14:39:50Z")

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If we look in the rule books for the Grand AM cup and the USTCC. They put retarded weight restrictions on similarly powered AWD vehicles.

When a Subaru Wagon with a totally stock powertrain from intake to exhaust weighing 3100 lbs gives a Mazda RX8 weighing 2650 lbs a run for the money around the track there must be some advantage…

[http://www.grand-am.com/CONTENT/Docs/PDF/2006/Tech%20Bull%202006-06.pdf](http://www.grand-am.com/CONTENT/Docs/PDF/2006/Tech%20Bull%202006-06.pdf)

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