I've understood that it already works.
If the server and all who join have the same tweaked settings.

I'm silly if I want to be.

Besides if you check my ramblings on drift topics you'll notice I'm not a very big fan of it either.

Even I know that drifting is an official motorsport. What dimension are you living in?

Cruising... motorsport... :Eyecrazy: :chairfall

That has to be the joke of the century!

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Quote from HVS5b :

Aye, ok, so I'm in Scotland, but the sun does shine here, if we behave

I can vouch for that. Well atleast for the summer before last. I was in Scotland for a week and it only rained for a couple of days.
Even when we went to hike on Ben Nevis the sun shone. Must have been the result of this global warming thingy that everybody is talking about.

Quote from kamkorPL :

Current cars are shit cars the way they are. LFS has no proper high powered RWD car that is light and has good weight distribution.

...

street cars(as it ONLY CONCERNS STREET CARS)..

Erm... If the cars in LFS are so shit for drifting because of all that above how will more lock solve the problem?

You obviously need a car designed for drifting. Not just more lock.

But I definitely agree with you on the point about cruising getting more support from the devs than drifting. Drifting IS a competitive activity involving cars. Cruising isn't.

De Tomaso Pantera GT5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Tomaso_Pantera

Picky

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

"hentai" Do you know anything about it?

Depends on what you want. There are so many hentai genres. Some are almost kids stuff while others are way beyond disgustingly weird fetish perversions.

@jonny_27
If you like Love Hina I would suggest Maison Ikkoku. It's old but still very good. Might be hard to come across though.

@atlantian
Try Wangan Midnight. It's a racing anime.

Well I for one am going to go increase the amount of online racers.
Want to join me on CTRA Race 2?

Weight distribution.

Quote from Ikaponthus :

Basically, closed circuit street racing, rally, etc. simply do not have the same ties to street racer culture that "drifting racing" does.

What is closed circuit street racing?
Name me one motor sport that wasn't first implemented on the streets. Well off-roading doesn't use streets but lets not be so picky.

The reason racing and street racing are seen as two seperate and very different phenomena is the amount of media coverage racing gets. Everybody knows racing and street racing are totally different.
Drifting, as a sport, has very little media coverage. Where as the dorks who "drift" in the streets get plenty. Nowadays anything with big wings and flashy graphics are labeled as drifting by the media. F&F:TD really did a big "favour" to the drifting community. Besides it's absolutely the worst car movie I have ever seen.

Am I twisted? That cheesy post by xaotik reminded me of the Monty Python sketch about the cheese shop without any cheese.

Are we making a mockery of this whole thread by discussing bicycles?
Nah. You can drift bicycles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E14GN2_zNE

£7k for a bicycle... You could get a Range Rover Vogue for that!

I have a bicycle. Will that do?

My sisters boyfriend has a motorcycle. I think it's a kamikaze something or other.

Besides I don't have the license to drive one. I have a license to drive a car a lorry or even a semi but not a itsy bitsy bike. Yay for the Finnish legistlation!

Quote from nihil :

Coming to enjoy your posts too...

Oh crap! I must be doing something wrong then.

Mmmm... Emmental

In the end he managed to drift it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3MH1febavY
Or was it another driver?

@KamkorPL
Not offended. You do realise that you and K. Tsuchiya are making me see drifters in a different light. You guys are the first ones ever to try to explain the meaning and motivation behind drifting.

Thanks to you I burned my rear tyres on the CTRA Race 2 yesterday.

You really should use the search function before making a new thread.
Try this thread

Quote from kamkorPL :

Please tell me what exactly(facts) your opinion is based on.

My experience with drifting is limited to the following:

• Icy carpark in the middle of the night over 10 years ago. The handbrake and power slide thingy which really isn't drifting but what very many youngsters do and call drifting. Though then it was only called having fun. None of us even knew there was something called drifting.
  
• Watching Initial D. This is the first time I came to know the term "drifting".
  
• Got myself the Keichi Tsuchiyas Drift Bible. Thoughts at the time of seeing were: Oh shit! You have to learn the racing line to do this properly.
  
• Trying desperately to drift in LFS. Yes, I can go sideways but the control isn't there. I do save myself from time to time with a "drift" as I tend to overshoot my braking points.

My antipathy towards some elements of the drift community have risen from:

• Countless threads about wanting a "drift car" added to lfs. You can drift any car with minimal mods. LSD being the most important. Lo and behold! LfS already has LSD!
  
• Countless threads about NOS, bodykits, wings etc. I think the only really good Impr.&Sugg. thread related to drifting was the 45 degree steering lock one. At first I was like "what for?" then after your post detailing the reasons I was for it. Then some dork (a demo drifter iirc) started spoutin some insults and the like and I changed my mind.
  
• The constant bickering about whether drifting is racing or "just" a motor sport. Yes the racers that take part in these are just as stupid. Me included. If someone thinks it's not racing then why do you care? Many of you say you do it for the fun. Have fun and don't give a -uck about what other people think. Some people think playing computer games for fun is stupid. Some think that driving RC cars is stupid. Yes, so? I think both are fun and I don't give a fetid dingo's kidneys what you think about it.
  
• Many drifters are always on the offencive if anyone dares to question their über 1337 skillz. Even if someone asks a perfectly legitimate question.

Quote from nihil :

Then I would immediately put the image out of my mind, and get on with listening to your REAL story.

Exactly! You would do that but many don't.
For the record I don't have a HD or any other motorcycle. I just like a vehicle to have atleast four wheels.

Quote from flymike91 :

I don't see any difference between so called "dorifto" graphics and regular racing liveries

Read the following sentence and make sure you comprehend it too:
Neither do I.


Post too long to root out typos and grammar errors.

I believe it was a time problem. The new FBM had to be implemented and the interiors were put aside.

Correct.
Imdb linky

Here is one for the car movie fans.

Did you see the movie too?

It's not as great as the series though.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Quote from nisskid :

as it is justified in a lot of cases unfortunately.

Just make sure you yourself don't enforce the stereotype.

Quote from Woz :

Not the cars fault but that is how sterotypes work

Exactly the same thing as with Harley Davidson motorcycles.
Drive one and you are instantly seen as a member of a motorcycle gang.

A few bad apples ruining the fun for the rest. But in the case of drifting it's a whole bunch on mindless dorks who ruin it for the few.
Only a few top drifters and millions of teenage dorks doing handbrake turns and power sliding.

The reason racing is not affected as well is the amount of media coverage it gets. You see racing on TV all the time but there is rarely a show about drifting on. So people have a pretty good hunch what racing is about. But drifting "knowledge" comes from the movies.

@K. Tsuchiya
Thank you for the drifting article. That was a good read.