Seems to be the majority opinion on how it's pronounced. I scoured a few forums to double check.
I should've realised that it's not toozsh... you always pronounce a word in the accent of it's origin. That style of racing being Japanese (?) it's highly unlikely that it would be pronounced toozsh. Toe-Gey sounds a lot more Japanese to me.
alot of japanese stages are dirt as well. france and many outher countries have more popular tramac stages. almost every country has some pretty cool mountain roads not just japan i think thats what annoys alot of people is all the newbies acting like mountain racing only goes on in japan.
actually drifting around corners was popular all around the world. it just really blew up in japan with all the sportscars being available over there and race culture growing so much around the late 70's to 80's. people have been drifting mountains all over the world ever sinse cars became powerfull enough to slide.
every single racing game has mountain tracks. i dont see why this one doesnt have any yet. mountain tracks are so much fun we need them. not only for drifting but for racing. PLEASE give us touge PLEASE! PLEASE!
ok let me rephrase. most racing games that actually matter and are realistic such as all the gran turismos and forza and so on all have mountain courses and they all have multiple.....
oh so the whole rd series, nK pro and quite a few other pro sims (like GTR, GTL etc) dont have mountain roads, but thats because their not realistic? and yet because GT and Forza do they are? illepall
uhhhhhhhh actually i have never heard of any of thsoe games but im not saying just because they have mountain tracks theyre real... are you high? read what i said man. im sayign the realistic racing games (unlike nfs:u and other stupid games, never heard of the others you said so i dont know) have mountain tracks. i would never say that having mountain tracks makes a game realistic i cant believe you even just said that......
cars were made for the racing enthusiasts to enjoy their cars on twisty roads and the twisty roads are found in the mountains and canyons. touge is what the sports cars are made for and its the birth place of drifting. ever since back in the 50s people have been racing on the mountain and canyon roads in all countrys. touge racing is a lifestyle lived by true enthusiasts and nobody else. touge is a very important aspect of drifting which most people do not understand i guess. in touge racing you try to go as fast as you can and in some of the slower turns people end up sliding to keep the RPMs up so you can launch out the exit faster which is why rally drivers drift a lot. people started going faster and faster and slid more and more until the point where they just kept it sliding which is how drifting came about. but wether your gripping or drifting touge is the most exciting ride youll ever go on in your life. i think they would be a very very good and very much needed addition to LFS... simple as that. PLEASE give us some touges as soon as possible. a WHOLE lot of people would absolutely LOVE them and i dont see why anyone would complain about it.....
i thought rally drivers drifted because they needed to slow down so much to take the corner properly it was quicker to use their 300 hp engines to "pull" them round?
Oh come on, you make it sound like the car was invented for people to race/drift. It was made to be a form of transportation. And sportscars are made for the racetrack.
LFS doesn't aim to be a drifting simulator.
Look, I have no problem with people drifting in LFS, but the amount of drifting specific feature requests really is getting out of hand.
LFS is created as a racing simulator. The fact that you can drift in it is just a side affect because of the great physics system.
Here you ask for a couple of touge tracks. And as soon as possible too! It's a three man team working on this game you know, of which ONE is responsible for modelling the tracks and cars.
Touge may be wanted by a group of people, it most certainly is not needed.
But which games are you talking about then?
The games Jakg mentioned are the most realistic simulators around, I wonder what game I have missed.
no the problem isnt us drifters its you close minded racers that refuse to acknowledge drifting as anything but a performance and for show purposes only. and of course cars were meant for transportation at first but then people started racing them. people were racing cars as early as the 20s...... do you really think manufacturers make sports cars only for the tracks? why are they street legal then? do you think its possible for everyone to go to a track just whenever? i dont know where your from but in the united states and in california pretty much every single race track is booked 6-8 months in advance and can only be driven on during events. may that be a car club event or some other organized event. people cant just go to a race track when they feel like it which is why people race on the touges here.
i am not asking for touges strictly for drifting. in past threads about this many many many racers also agreed that mountain roads would be a great addition because they would be for everyone. 95% of touge is racing and very very little drifting. just back in the 70s and 80s when cars didnt handle as good as they do now drifting was faster because you could keep the RPMs up. drifting can still be faster in this way but it is now mainly done for the excitement of sliding constantly almost like rally racing. doing it on a mountain road just hugely adds to the excitement which is why people still choose to drift.
can anyone tell me why this is a bad idea in any way? are there any negative things to come from these tracks? i am fully aware of how hard our lfs devs are working and it is very greatly appreciated by everyone which is why i said as soon as possible not something like make it right now or something. maybe when s3 comes out we can have some touges in it but the sooner the better. id still love to hear some reasons why we shouldnt have these tracks....
what? when did i EVER say that? i ackknowledge drifting, and do it sometimes even im not very good, but giving drifters special tyres and tracks when the ones they have are good seems a tad pointless, but i was more commenting on the "all sims have mountain roads" statement, and for that im a "close minded racer that doesnt ackknowledge drifitng?"
Well, if the discussion is going to be a "us drifters" vs. "you close minded racers" then I'm out of it as of now. I HATE that sort of attitude.
So by disagreeing with you I am close minded? Good to know only your opinion is to be considered valid, keeps me from wasting any more time.
No, they don't. But their origin is on the racetrack. They use racing series as a way of testing their performance and developing new technology, which eventually ends up in street legal versions of it.
Bah, the whole Racers vs Drifters war is really gay.
Firstly i'd like to say, what drift specific features ARE implemented into LFS? None as far as i'm aware...
So asking for something like a tyre isn't really asking for a cure to cancer. (That's not in any way to patronise the Devs. Just saying it's not as though the drifters are asking for the game to be renamed to Live For Drift!)
As far as the mountain tracks are concerned, who says they can't be raced on? Whether your car is sideways or straight, it's beside the point. A mountain track is a great way to race regardless of the style in which you race it.
well i havent played gran turismo 4 in a real long time but off the top of my head i will never forget deep forest raceway or trial mountain. and ONCE again. touge RACING is meant to be RACED. drifting is just really fun to do in the mountains which is why i personally want it but i will definitely be racing on the tracks too if we get them. this is not a drifting request its just a track request for everyone... and no none of you ever said that you refuse to acknowledge drifting but ive noticed that most people on this forum do and with your attitude of drifting doesnt deserve anything i get the feeling that you are like this too. but ONCE again, TOUGE IS MEANT TO BE RACED. this is not by any means a drifting request. i dont wanna say it again. the guy who started this thread does not know anything about touge and just watches initial d which is why he named it mountain drifting.
, those are tarmac mountain roads 
