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      10-18-2017, 01:56 PM   #56
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Digital.James : Read this article in the New York Times by Dan Neil in 1999 -- the same year, incidentally, that he won the IMPA Purdy Award for auto journalism, one of the greatest honors in the field:

It states, within the first two grafs (emphasis added):
"... In sports cars, which tend to spin the rear wheels on wet pavement, all-wheel drive temporarily diverts power to the front, helping to stabilize the car."

"For a decade, Porsche has offered all-wheel drive on its 911's, rear-engine machines that, with 60 percent of their weight over the drive wheels, never have much trouble finding traction on dry roads but can be twitchy when it is wet. Porsche's system imbues its cars with an extra measure of all-weather capability. But it also gives the 911 a bonehead-friendly disposition, bailing out drivers whose appetite for speed exceeds their ability to drive."

Fundamentally, it was an issue of handling, specifically in the wet, related to the loss of traction in a car that, when traction is lost, is a very, very dangerous object because of its rear-engine bias.
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