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Originally Posted by drob23
I'm really interested in the b9 hybrid drivetrain. Pretty much eliminate the complex center diff and use motors to drive the front wheels. If a 3.0TT is powering JUST the rear wheels, and motors are torque steering the front wheels in addition to an active rear diff, it will be hard to chose the M4 over the RS5.
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My understanding is that the e-Quattro system will use electric motors to drive the rear wheels, not the front wheels. That makes the most sense to me given that it eliminates the driveshaft and supporting hardware which will be needed to offset the weight of the batteries and other hybrid-related systems. I suppose they could do it the other way around for performance models, but it doesn't strike me as very likely. I would say that a traditional, non-electric AWD system instead of e-Quattro is probably the better bet for an RS model.