All Wheel Drive will get you to your accident sooner. Plenty of teens "buying" them with Mommy and Daddy's credit card. The payments outlive the teens fairly often.

I rallycross, yes.

http://www.youtube.com/user/roguewrx

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Do you race? Do tell. Those things are lethal in the wrong hands. We've lost about five teenagers (plus some people in the cars they hit) in our part. Fabulous cars, I'd love one.

In reply to this comment by roguewrx:
I do, I do. Several in fact.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
'bout time, right? So do you drive one a those crazy 'Barus?

http://wheels.videosift.com/talk/Oh-thank-baby-Jesus

My first car was a 1993 Mitsubishi Galant S. Great car got amazing gas mileage. Went as far as I could with it but eventually at 287,000 miles the repairs it needed to keep it going outweighed the cost of a new car.

The second car I still own. a 1998 Subaru Impreza Outback Sport. It's run like a beauty since the day I got it. The all wheel drive saved myself from accidents several times. Doesn't get as good mileage as my first car but the low maintaince cost and safety make up for it.

Third car we are currently trying to sell is a 1997 Ford Escort ES. Amazing thing about this car is it's 'new car' smell hasn't faded, it's in great shape, low miles, but hard to keep up with the repairs and doesn't handle ice very well. After our son was born we haven't used it so it's just an extra insurance liability we don't need.

Hey, I don't make this stuff up.

From Wikipedia:
quattro (four in Italian) is a registered trademark of Audi AG for all wheel drive (AWD) systems used on Audi brand automobiles. quattro was first introduced in 1980 on the permanent-AWD Audi Quattro and has since been applied to all AWD models that Audi sells. Due to the trademark, the name is always spelled with a lower case "q".

So technically, I misspelled it.