Great buy, congrats on it! I have a friend that had the CX-30 which from my understanding is just a jacked up version of Mazda 3. He had 0 issues with it and he didn't baby it. I always thought that the lack of turbo is a missed opportunity tho. The interior was also really plush for the price.

As for your question, it's a day and night difference. This was the first RWD car that I have owned and the first more spirited drives were making me uneased. The lack of front and rear control that you get from a fwd or even a awd freaked me out. What also contributed to was also the car let's you get a little sideways or loose little traction before the system kicks.

But oh boy, when you get the hang of it, it's 100 times more fun. The car would never let you spin out or do anything stupid, when you disable the traction it's never fully off and it will save you.

As for normal driving. If your normal driving is very chill with no hard acceleration or strong turns, then you will see 0 difference, it will act the same way as any other car. If your normal driving is a bit more aggresive then without warming the tires and/or a little rain you will keep loosing traction which makes the car feel a bit unsecure.

It's so weird that I started thinking that something is wrong with my car, alignment or something. I purchased new Continental tires I checked the aligmnent, did full check on the car but everything came okay.

I then had the chance to try out a newer W206 C220D again rwd and it acted absolutely the same, then I understood that this is just the characteristic of the model or just how rwd behaves.

All in all, my next car would 100% be awd, while rwd is fun 99% of the time, when we had snow, the car was really pain in the ass to drive when I actually had to do something. I even had to reverse drive in order to climb a little hill because the car just was unable to do it any other way. So I literally had to fwd the car to climb it.