FWD highway dominance- Fact or Fiction? Options

[KOU In3]

OK, it's come up indirectly a number of times but am I the only one that questions this whole FWD highway ownership thing? It seems like it's become an accepted fact that the FWD's are 50% faster from a roll.

Yes, the AWD weigh 400 or so pounds more.

Yes, there is an AWD drivetrain loss.

BUT, turning the AWD components only saps power to a point. I'm not sure I buy into the hype of 400 flywheel HP turning into 300whp as compared to it only losing half that amount in a FWD.

At stock turbo power levels yes, I can see the difference there but when you start really modding things I'm less certain.

This is when I'm waiting to hear the FFF cars (factory freak FWD cars chime in) with some arguements.

*Beware, the "Marucs at 12.6" arguement I plan on countering with though. *

[xian 1g]

i doubt i'm 12.6 and 13.0 is a hard reach, but after cordova jmoushon, we'll find out and i'm always game... it's just that sometimes sally isn't. sally is a lazy bitch. she knowns i want to launch the hell out of her so she tries to prevent driving her at all costs.
- i can not contribute any knowledge to this debate, but i am very interested in it. If sally ever runs well, i'm willing to put her through the test for some concrete evidence, although she has a long ways to go before she could ever dream of being an 11 sec quarter mile queen... right now, she's just trying to make a quarter mile.