The FWD is a big problem in the TL if you plan on driving it 8/10 (very hard) and autocrossing. However, if you live in the northeast like me and can't have RWD and can't afford the AWD of the 3 series and hate the cheapness of the G35, the TL is by far a vast improvement on our Accord. It's like everything on our Accord taken to the 5th power...look at the standard features list of the TL sometime in the brochure. I'd say 80% of them are either improved on what we have or completely new.