I am really sorry to clutter up the forum with this question...
Trying to decide on Grand Touring or Touring, but more than that AWD or FWD and in automatic 6 speed of course. There are a few days where we have snow and ice, but it is not that bad...wondering if AWD is that much of a penalty in gas, reliability, and so forth, or should we just get the FWD because it will be quicker and get better gas mileage.
What are the real world experiences?
I say quicker because I am assuming there are a lot parasitic losses from the additional drive train friction and your are not really getting the full benefit of the engine power. I have read that losses, in general with FWD are like 15% but with AWD can be 35% or more.
I tried the advanced search with "CX5 AWD or FWD" in variations and nothing came up, always nothing found. So sorry again.
Trying to decide on Grand Touring or Touring, but more than that AWD or FWD and in automatic 6 speed of course. There are a few days where we have snow and ice, but it is not that bad...wondering if AWD is that much of a penalty in gas, reliability, and so forth, or should we just get the FWD because it will be quicker and get better gas mileage.
What are the real world experiences?
I say quicker because I am assuming there are a lot parasitic losses from the additional drive train friction and your are not really getting the full benefit of the engine power. I have read that losses, in general with FWD are like 15% but with AWD can be 35% or more.
I tried the advanced search with "CX5 AWD or FWD" in variations and nothing came up, always nothing found. So sorry again.