You sure as hell can slide a FWD car around in the rain. Don't ever buy a rental car, our last one was FWD.... poor thing. It slid, oh yes, it slid.

Funniest thing about this thread is how many people saying how much they love RWD in this thread actually own a RWD car.

I like both, never owned an AWD car, just driven a few here and there. You can do some things with a RWD that you can't do with FWD but there are FWD cars that handle amazingly well and are a hell of a lot of fun to drive. I own a RWD car and I like it a lot but I have no problem with FWD cars at all.