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Originally Posted by footie
For a start, the new Quattro even the one with torque vectoring will still only shift the power 25% either direction, meaning 85% max to the rear and 65% max to the front. Next, you can not base all of your opinions on M5Board events, there is other evidence which state that Quattro cars accelerate equally as well as their rwd rivals when power is the same, the only thing that bares relevance is weight when all other things are equal.
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Buzzz.... you are so wrong it makes me cry. The only thing that matters is the force that pushes the car forward versus the car that pushes it back. Quattro eats power so a 420 hp RS4 has less to the wheels than say an M3. A related issue is the rolling resistance, tires, transmission.....this force is significantly higher in holding back acceleration on the RS4 and other full time AWD systems.
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Wrong, the GTR uses two drive shafts, one to the rear gearbox and transfer box and another moving forward to drive the front wheels, that means more transmission lose than what Quattro produces.
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Who cares? This is a design choice by the Nissan engineers but they made other choices that allows a 480 hp car to actully accelerate like a 480 hp car, which means they sunk a lot of R&D into reducing rolling resistance of an AWD system.
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The system will be seen in the S4 according to some well chosen sites, if it shows there you may get your chance to either be impressed or reject it's merits because it's connected to that awful Quattro system you dearly hate.
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Audi has no choice but to follow BMW and even Nissan in innovating AWD systems....