[Joey]

I think what it comes down to is the weight transfer to the rear under any forward acceleration, which is what we think of as speed, and it happens just the same in any size vehicle. Simple physics. In tiny RC cars, the shift is a whole lot less accented, so there's not as much of a difference. In my experience, the only thing better about FWD for small cars is accelerating uphill; and even that doesn't totally make sense to me, but that's how it's been with the FWD stuff I've seen. AWD is better than either for pretty much anything, save drifting, but only if you've got grip - which XMODS don't.

For real cars, I prefer RWD to anything else, simply because it's the most fun. But I've never been one to push cars much.