How to Use front-wheel drive in a Sentence
front-wheel drive
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But the front-wheel drive has plenty of grip and will pull you out of some tricky situations.
—Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
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But up front, this historic car is the first Porsche racer with electric front-wheel drive.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
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Plus, the Prime is available only with front-wheel drive while the Prius is offered with electric all-wheel drive.
—Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2023
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And the Fiat's front-wheel drive layout lets drivers make the most of regen, as most of the braking force in any car is applied to the front wheels.
—Stephen Edelstein, Ars Technica, 9 Apr. 2024
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Each has varying performance and rear-wheel or front-wheel drive.
—Emily Forlini, PC Magazine, 13 May 2025
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As a pure, rear-drive sports car, the 4C marked a clear delineation from Alfa Romeo’s nearly 40 years wandering in the desert of front-wheel drive.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 11 July 2024
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As standard, the ADX is just front-wheel drive, but all-wheel drive is available for an additional $2,000.
—ArsTechnica, 6 June 2025
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Enlarge / Ars drove an early front-wheel drive Ariya last year, but now the all-wheel drive version is finally ready for these shores.
—Stephen Edelstein, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2023
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Since this is a front-wheel drive model, it is not ideally suited to work on hills and slopes, but should be fine for fairly level yards.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2023
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The new Kicks also takes on a more upright, imposing look than the ’24 model, which offered only front-wheel drive and looked more like a small wagon.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2024
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Volkswagen will launch nine new models by 2027, including four electric cars based on the MEB platform with front-wheel drive.
—Matthew MacConnell, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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The 2022 Civic Si sedan will continue to only offer a manual transmission and front-wheel drive, and its fun-to-drive nature carries on, too.
—Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Aug. 2023
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All-wheel drive is available on Touring L, Limited and Pinnacle models, while front-wheel drive is standard.
—Kristin Shaw, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2024
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This pairs to a continuously variable transmission (CVT) with front-wheel drive.
—New Atlas, 7 Feb. 2025
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Sadly, the eight-seat configuration is only available as a front-wheel drive with either diesel or gas turbo engine, not as the eHybrid 4Motion plug-in hybrid all-wheel-drive.
—New Atlas, 13 June 2025
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Those supply chain problems are evidently no more because the front-wheel drive 2.5 L hybrid is now the default powertrain option once again.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 31 July 2024
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There’s still no transmission tunnel, however, because the ICE hybrid vehicles will be front-wheel drive.
—James Morris, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
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Standard also is an eight-speed, dual-clutch automatic transmission and front-wheel drive.
—James Raia, The Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2024
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The restaurant’s name was inspired by its art deco interior: the Ruxton was an elegant 1930s-era front-wheel drive automobile.
—Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2023
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While all-wheel drive and four-wheel drive may be viewed as the most popular options, front-wheel drive can still be viable with winter tires.
—Keenan Thompson, Freep.com, 25 Jan. 2026
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