Aus, it's AWD. When it detects the front wheels slipping, it send power to the rear wheels. Although there's a button in the center console that locks the center differential so it guarantees that atleast one front wheel and one rear wheel grip. Also, Id like to set a few things straight. Someone asked me to post a few pix of my S/E, which I did. It surprised alot of you because expected a normal 6000. but alot of you said yourselves that it was a nice car, and I thank you for that. However, When that other retard said it had no high points, and all low points, that's when I was pissed. I'm not one who tollerates someone dissing my car. My cars are like my children, I like them both equally. They both have faults (6000 has CRAPPY gas milage, Mystique has CRAPPY build quality). Id like to know what you would do if 30 people said your Contour was a POS, which Im sure 99% of Contour owners have had that happen. Why? Because people dont know much about the Contour. Well, that's exactly like what you are doing to me. You dont know anything about the car, so how do you think that you have any reason to talk? And that picture of a BASE 6000 with the caption "lean mean driving machine"...what do you think a 120hp Contour GL is? I'd just like to make you guys think about what you have done, and maybe you'll realize that you're getting mad at me for acting immature, when in reality, its YOU that are immature. You are talking about a car that you know nothing about, much like when people talk about Contours.