Is the Ford Five Hundred a rear wheel drive car?
Is the Ford Five Hundred a rear wheel drive car? The all-wheel-drive Chrysler 300--which we've yet to test--drops to 17 and 24, compared with 19 and 27 for rear-wheel drive. Apart from the reminder badge on the decklid, the Five Hundred's AWD is mostly never noticed, certainly not in our dry-track testing. This car understeers firmly, consistently, and reliably. Is there a filigree on the Ford Five Hundred? No filigree. Instead of the fine, fussy details Detroit reached for back in the Iacocca era to lay on the simulated luxury, the Five Hundred has bold shapes that look weighty. The...