How SH-AWD works: Acura’s AWD system explained

Have you been wondering how the Acura SH-AWD system differs from other “Haldex style“ AWD systems? In this video I explain how Super Handling All Wheel Drive differs from Audi’s Quattro, BMW’s x-Drive and the other transverse AWD systems on the market. Aside from the fact that Honda/Acura doesn’t have a RWD drivetrain to borrow, the benefit main benefit to a transverse engine layout is improved interior packaging. “Super Handling All Wheel Drive“ may not have been the best name for the system, but it is arguably the best AWD system you can tack onto a transverse FWD platform. The systems used by Infiniti, Lexus, Volvo, Lincoln and just about everyone out there that had an AWD system tacked onto a transaxle has no center differential. Instead the power flows from the final gearset of the transmission to the front diff and the rear diff via gears at a fixed 1:1 ratio. Between this gear arrangement and the rear diff is a clutch pack that allows the car to connect, d