How to Use front-wheel drive in a Sentence

front-wheel drive

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• All-wheel drive is available on Touring L, Limited and Pinnacle models, while front-wheel drive is standard.
  — Kristin Shaw, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2024
• 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
• There’s still no transmission tunnel, however, because the ICE hybrid vehicles will be front-wheel drive.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• Standard also is an eight-speed, dual-clutch automatic transmission and front-wheel drive.
  — James Raia, The Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2024
• 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
• In late December 2022, Nissan began deliveries of the single motor front-wheel drive Ariya crossover and will shortly begin delivering a more powerful dual motor variant.
  — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Feb 2025