The only thing really wrong with FWD is that with the front wheels
doing the accelerating, the steering, the driving and the lion's share
of the braking...
George makes a valid point, but I'll tell you what's *really* wrong
with FWD--aside from older Citroens, FWD cars always end up with a
huge forward weight bias. While driving the rear wheels is usually a
better way to go, it's the inherent imbalance of FWD cars that really
cripples them. Having that weight bias over your driven wheels is
great at low speed in a straight line on ice when you're trying to
get up your driveway, but if the ice extends beyond your driveway,
you're never going to be able to use all the grip your tires have to
offer. Roads have corners, even in America, and my GTV-6 can go
around snowy ones faster even than AWD Audis, just because (like FWD
cars) they prematurely run out of grip at the front. Of course the
AWD car can accelerate out of said corner faster than the GTV-6 can,
which is why Audis have dominated several production car racing
series over the last 25 years, but when I'm driving in the snow, even
if I'm in a hurry, I'd much rather maintain speed through a corner
and minimize the amount of braking and accelerating that I have to do
on slick, unpredictable surfaces.