I believe the lifting effect you're talking about is not necessairly a characteristic of a RWD car, just a car with a lot of torque.

For example, my jetta does experience a fairly obvious lifting effect. Its just what cars do under accleration.

It IS however, much much more profound in very fast RWD vechicles, since the sheer amount of torque and accleration is causing a huge weight transfer to the back wheels. The back wheels are powering the car, so it isn't a problem, but a FWD vechicle undergoing the same stressors would lose a lot of weight over the drivewheels, and therefore, would probably experience very bad wheel hop or spin.

The thing I like about high-power RWD cars... is the tendancy for the back end to slide out when trying to acclerate very hard. That's always fun.