Slicks and not enough lock. And oh, drift car isn't fun with paddles. I don't actually remember how much it has steering lock, but mostly race cars don't have even half of it what drift cars have. And I don't really think that it looks like a drift car.
With this being the most recent drifting thread, and slightly concerned with the whole 45° argument, I was wondering if anyone here emailed me this via my website? It has 45° in the sender's name (I think, it's not exactly easy to read it). I've found it very funny, and I think it's a shame it was sent anon. Anyway, it's on the website now as an amusing item.
WARNING, THE EMAIL BELOW CONTAINS LESS THEN APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE, WHICH MAY OFFEND. SO READ IT!
You do realize that your 10+ years of polishing bearings and line boring dildos as someone elses bitch in a machine shop, really doesn't compare to Mike Peters 4+ years of actual Pro racing experience.
YaY beat ass old reynard FTL. Good luck and eat a bucket of barbed wire.
Edit: Have formulated a nice, polite reply correcting the phantom email sender of his mistakes, and asking for evidence of Mike Peters' experience. I don't think the email address is real though, so I'm not anticipating a reply, but you never know. With a bit of luck the complete prat will post it here, thus identifying himself as the original 'author'.
Edit2: Sadly, the email wouldn't send, as I suspected... Oh well...
I totally disagree. your saying dark chocolate is better then ice cream! You got to be out of your mind.... Where you from???? America??? ( no offence) ass.
if you guys are talking about a car that is specifically used for the sport of drifting... there are already plenty of cars for that purpose in LFS, the XRT and the GT for example, they are both rwd and PERFECT for drifting, and there is a suspension mod tool in the garage. if you are talking about the look, why not just slap a skin on your car. complete with sponsor stickers and such. and i think you don't even need a sports car, people love the corolla for it's simplicity; it's lightweight and FR period.
In my opinion, all the XRT needs is a red RED SUNS decal on the back left fender
drifting [the sport] is not racing style, it's a showoff, i am a big fan of [showoff] drifting, and it(the manuver) could be used to slow down the vehicle if it's going too fast, it could be to setup a better angle for a corner exit, and it could be used to keep your engine rev up while slowing down entering a corner
and yes, drifting is not dying, it's getting to be like drag racing in California. But i think this thread was kinda stupid, a DRIFT SPEC car?!?! and to TURN OFF drift? how would you do that in reality?? wouldn't that make racing EASIER if you can't loose traction?? then it would be the compitition of "who's engine is the best?"... that would suck major balls
I was getting a bit edgy about the post count, but thinking about it, the only reason it is 50/50 is because the people voting yes mostly just want something new, they don't care what it is. The 50% that are voting no, are ACTUALLY voting no.
I have an impression a lot of people voted no because of the mention of the word "Drift" without either reading the thread or being completly incompetent to see anything after the word "Drift".
But whether these people read through the thread, they are STILL going to say no. A big part of the 'yes' voters are just people that want a new car anyway. So the 'drift car' arguement is just invalid at this time.
The people who vote no are the people who do not want a drift car in lfs. The people who vote yes are the people that do. The people who don't vote probably couldn't care less if there is or not.
I hope this clears things up.