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Howard Kerr 11:00PM (2/05/2007)
I have a tendency to beat a dead horse.
PJ says that FWD is all but a necessity for a large luxury sedan. That customers for, say, 7 series and S-class sized cars crave max amounts of interior volume. This is true, up to a point. However since these cars RARELY carry more than a driver and one or two passengers....what would you need vast amounts of interior room for? As far as the average customer/driver of this type of car knowing or not knowing which wheels are driving the car...they may say "I don't know" if you ask FWD or RWD. But I'll beat most will say RWD if NOT asked in a way that requires them to pick between FWD, RWD and AWD. I've ridden in S-class Mercedes of several different generations (from the mid '50s, the late '60s...a 6.3, and the early '00s) and driven a few. Interior packaging is what one would expect with the rear wheels being driven. Would the owners of these cars buy a FWD S-class or 7 series if it was available? I don't think the sole attraction of more space inside and in the trunk would do it.
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