Interesting Question IMO

[Matty]

I am no troll, I can assure you that if you go into the settings you will see it for yourself! There is also this thread...

Sorry, I actually thought you were trying to troll me there. I apologise for what I said.

 

[sk8tepenguin]

It's understandable, the standard centre diff settings are unbelievable...

 

[Matty]

It's understandable, the standard centre diff settings are unbelievable...

Sorry again for that, since I have the car I may as well go have a look

 

[CyKosis1973]

Are there any 4WD cars in GT5 that have more power sent to the front axle?

Answers appreciated.

Yes. The Mazdaspeed Atenza '05, as far as I remember sends most of the power to the front wheels, until such times as the rear requires traction. At least I remember the in-game description saying something to this effect.

I've no idea how it works in the game, if at all...

{Cy}

PS - I'm perfectly happy to be corrected on this.

 

[Matty]

Yes. The Mazdaspeed Atenza '05, as far as I remember sends most of the power to the front wheels, until such times as the rear requires traction. At least I remember the in-game description saying something to this effect.

I've no idea how it works in the game, if at all...

{Cy}

PS - I'm perfectly happy to be corrected on this.

Thank you very much. Seems my question wasn't all that stupid after all

 

[NjLowrider]

Gotta remember some cars are offered as front wheel drive or all wheel drive. Like honda element or cr-v irl. The awd models are basically a ff engine/trans with a skinny driveshaft coming out connected to a small differential. These would probably send more power to the front wheels.

Imo nothing is beneficial about front wheel drive

 

[Matty]

Gotta remember some cars are offered as front wheel drive or all wheel drive. Like honda element or cr-v irl. The awd models are basically a ff engine/trans with a skinny driveshaft coming out connected to a small differential. These would probably send more power to the front wheels.

Imo nothing is beneficial about front wheel drive

Agreed, that's why I'm asking the question as it would seem the car would be bad as a 4WD as it has more power to the front when it could easily put more to the rear.

And since it makes a odd combo I'm wondering if there's any in the game.

 

[Famine]

Yes. The Mazdaspeed Atenza '05, as far as I remember sends most of the power to the front wheels, until such times as the rear requires traction. At least I remember the in-game description saying something to this effect.

I've no idea how it works in the game, if at all...

{Cy}

PS - I'm perfectly happy to be corrected on this.

The Mk1 Audi TT should too - as, despite the "quattro" badging, it used a Haldex 4WD system of similar behaviour. Front wheel drive primarily (97.5/2.5 split) with up to 100% torque shifted to the rear wheels as required by the system.

It was also used by the Golf R32 and the Bora 4motion, both in GT5.

 

[GTP_Monkey]

The Mk1 Audi TT should too - as, despite the "quattro" badging, it used a Haldex 4WD system of similar behaviour. Front wheel drive primarily (97.5/2.5 split) with up to 100% torque shifted to the rear wheels as required by the system.

It was also used by the Golf R32 and the Bora 4motion, both in GT5.

Does the game actually reflect this.

 

[JBanton]

The answer generally is no, because a lot of 4WD/ AWD begin to generate more understeer if power is dominantly sent to the front wheels. Even in cars where the engine is mid-mounted more power will be sent to the rear more often so that any understeer that may be generated will be corrected by the rear trying to oversteer.

Also, so far as I know there's no difference between 4WD and AWD, I just call them differently depending on what type of vehicle is in discussion.

Hope this helps .

 

[Matty]

So I believe the conclusion is, although cars in real life may power the front wheels more so then the back, it's not possible to shift more power to the front wheels in GT5.

Correct?

 

[Simple Matt]

So I believe the conclusion is, although cars in real life may power the front wheels more so then the back, it's not possible to shift more power to the front wheels in GT5.

Correct?

Yes.. On any 4WD car I have encountered in GT5 you can only give more power to the rear wheels or at minimum 50/50 split

 

[Matty]

Yes.. On any 4WD car I have encountered in GT5 you can only give more power to the rear wheels or at minimum 50/50 split

Except for the glitch car I heard about that can go 150/-50

So we have a conclusion. All that's left to do now is close the thread. 👍

Thank you all.

 

[DrTrebor007]

Awwwhhh Man! I was really hoping for a Car that could achieve this! Bummer!

 

[Johnnypenso]

This is slightly off topic, but I was tuning a couple of cars last night, the GTR Spec V 09' and the Black Mask I believe, and I noticed the Torque Split slider only moved in increments of 5, not 1. Anyone else notice this?

 

[SlyckTires]

This question is too vague, is the car AWD or 4WD?

Surely the only way these two could refer to anything different is if the car in question has more (or less) than 4 wheels

 

[phil_75]

Are there any 4WD cars in GT5 that have more power sent to the front axle?

Answers appreciated.

YES https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=244333

The new Golf R DLC Car acts like FF until it struggles too!

 

[o9lifted]

What I've seen is that a 4WD with a customizable Torque Center Differential or a torque split will let you split the torque between the rear and front axels of max 90% of the power to the rear wich will ofcourse make the car handle more like an FR or 50% max to the front wich will give the rear axel 50% of the power. So to answer your question, No there is no 4wd or Awd cars that will have more power set to the front axel (10-50% power to front axel). Also im 99.9999% safe or sure to say that your answer would be no, stock or with a cuztomizable torque center dif.

correct me if Im wrong

 

[Simple Matt]

This is slightly off topic, but I was tuning a couple of cars last night, the GTR Spec V 09' and the Black Mask I believe, and I noticed the Torque Split slider only moved in increments of 5, not 1. Anyone else notice this?

They use to be able to, cause I would set my split at 48/52 for drag racing

 

[Herman79]

I'm not, I honestly want to know if there's any 4WD drive car in the game that can have more power towards the front wheels. Or even more, In the world.

The Opel/Vauxhall Vectra and Calibra with 4x4 system. Torque-split are at normal driving conditions 75%front 25%rear. Sadly none of the roadgoing versions are in the game.

Have driven my own Calibra 4x4 at trackdays and the car is understeering quite a bit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5jNaGTNoDM&list=UUVHUDl9h1fIAmaYdgklgQmQ&index=5&feature=plcp

 

[cbrown19d]

I know that one of the biggest differences between the WRX and the Evolution models were in how its AWD distributed power. The Subbies had a primarily rear wheel drive system that would split power to the front with reduced traction and the Evo was primarily FF with the power flowing to the rear tires as traction was lost. This was on the older Evo models and I am not sure how the X uses it, but it would make the Evo tend to understeer on the tarmac and the WRX oversteer when pushed. I would imagine this would be really tough to model correctly in the game and it was easier for them to just slap on the same system to all cars in the game.

AWD uses a center diff and is constantly engaged and safe for use on tarmac.

4x4 uses a transfer case that locks the drivetrain together fron and rear and does not allow the front and rear axles to spin at different speed from each other. If you turn on tarmac the front will hop and lurch because to is being pushed by the rear axle and you rist blowing out a universal joint and dropping your front driveline.

In real life they are very different animals.

 

[Herman79]

AWD uses a center diff and is constantly engaged and safe for use on tarmac.

4x4 uses a transfer case that locks the drivetrain together fron and rear and does not allow the front and rear axles to spin at different speed from each other. If you turn on tarmac the front will hop and lurch because to is being pushed by the rear axle and you rist blowing out a universal joint and dropping your front driveline.

In real life they are very different animals.

You are correct. 👍

Maybe I can call the people at Opel up and demand correct badging to my Calibra from -91. Should be AWD instead of 4x4 on the trunklid............Oh nevermind...