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Originally Posted by CanAutM3
Extra weight, added rotating inertia and added drivetrain loss.
Even if the front wheels are decoupled from the transmission, they still need to spin the front drivetrain (drive shafts, CV joints, differential). In that 2WD mode, only the transmission of power to the front wheels is eliminated, all the other disadvantages remain.
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The only thing that would turn me off from the AWD version would be absurd amounts of weight... say it comes close to 3800 lbs... otherwise, a 100 lb difference wouldn't really matter to me at all...