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Driven: the world's fastest front-wheel-drive car - and it's a Golf. You donât really hear of Q-cars any more. Thirty years ago the phrase was commonplace, but has fallen into effective disuse today. A Q-car was a high performance machine designed to look like it couldnât pull the skin off a cup of cold cocoa.
But you can always go higher. Fiat/Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne says ZF's new nine-speed automatic could go into new front-wheel-drive offerings beginning in 2013. Mercedes-Benz is known to be developing a nine-speed version of its G-Tronic gearbox to back its AMG performance models.