It gets a bit too cold here for all year summer tires, but there is no need for any specific drive type. Rear wheel drive has advantages at the limit of course, and less weight than AWD. FWD offers better packaging. The GTI has very little understeer near the limit, they really have refined that out for the most part, so I'm fine with FWD.
I'm good with all season tires here. I don't push it as much as I once did, getting old.
There are old pilots, and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots.