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I came from an Acura RSX Type-S. I loved that little car, but to me, the biggest problem that it had was that it was FWD. The weight balance of the car is way off, like 65% on the front axle, it has an open differential, and relatively powerful engine at over 200hp. All this means that it was extremely easy to get wheelspin, specially when it was wet, and if you accelerated hard with some angle on the steering wheel then you had to fight against the torque steer (steering wheel pulls in and car wants to oversteer).
These problems are non-existent on a RWD car. When you accelerate the weight of the car shifts to the rear axle, helping your grip instead of reducing it, and the steering is unaffected.
Car makers use FWD because it reduces cost, simplifies the design and allows for more flexibility when designing cabin space and whatnot, but for performance RWD is the way to go (ignoring AWD).
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