I read an interesting article on the history and development of the prelude, the original designer had planned the car to be awd, however the other heads at honda were fixated with fwd, as well as to cut costs it was scrapped.

What we got out of all that design and planning was the shitty ATTS system which was meant to be better then a good lsd but failed miserably.

I'll try to find that article it was a real good read.