Drifting the new FAD?

[hardcoredrift]

as long as the true drifters keep it pure im cool. leth the kids come let them buy lights and shiznit let them cut their springs and let them try something and F*** up their car and quit. Only the true drifters will prevail.

keep the sport pure.


OH GOD HOLLYWOOD'S GONNA MESS S*** UP!

[Jsin]

Originally posted by Ghost of Duluth The GTS is a little different. As for precise numbers, don't have those. But the deal with them is that they are usually on the bad side of town, usually owned by Mexicans (nothing derogative at all towards my Mexican brothers, they just know about them and like them)

its funny you should say this cause i recently just purchased an sr5 hatch and my sister was like "whos car is that it looks like it belongs to a wetback" (woulda said it in spanish but i dont know how to spell it)

i am not racist for those who seem to get that idea i am mexican, hispanic, mexican american whatever you wanna call it

[Nismo_r34]

I think that ricer start to like drifting is because of the magazine super street. They have one where they put the ae86 Ueo's car on front cover and talk about d1.

I have 4 friends that have a ae86 gts twin cam. They don't know anything about drift until they borrow my initial D movie. Their ae866 looks good and it all ready stock. They are avoiding honda.

[Nightwalker]

one thing I've already seen happening...

kids fix up their cars, act like badasses, drive too fast, smash up their cars, mommy and daddy yell at them, no more dorifto.

kids buy rear wheel drive, fix up, try touge, not know $hit about driving, fall off canyon, die, one less fad supporter.

...performance driving has an idiot filter, it's call knowledge and skill

[driftxtreem]

Originally posted by Nightwalker
one thing I've already seen happening...

kids fix up their cars, act like badasses, drive too fast, smash up their cars, mommy and daddy yell at them, no more dorifto.

kids buy rear wheel drive, fix up, try touge, not know $hit about driving, fall off canyon, die, one less fad supporter.

...performance driving has an idiot filter, it's call knowledge and skill

Its called NATURAL SELECTION

[Ghost of Duluth]

Survival of the fittest. Yes you are right. Mountain driving will claim you if you do not know what you are doing and overstep your boundaries.

[CRASHDRIVE]

Originally posted by Nightwalker
one thing I've already seen happening...

kids fix up their cars, act like badasses, drive too fast, smash up their cars, mommy and daddy yell at them, no more dorifto.

kids buy rear wheel drive, fix up, try touge, not know $hit about driving, fall off canyon, die, one less fad supporter.

...performance driving has an idiot filter, it's call knowledge and skill

I agree with this, but the only thing im worried about it the publicity it will produce.

The more BAD publicity that Import Street Racers get the stricker the laws will be. I mean, its bad already but if THIS FAD kills alot more kids. Next thing you know, Modifying a CAR will be illegal, regarless if it's street legal or not.

my .02c

[Ichi-Go]

I agree that it is getting to be a huge fad and I was grabbed by this "fad" about a year and a half ago right before it went "mainstream".

I am 15 so this isnt biased but I think that way to many ricers are getting into drifting. I think it is a bad idea. It will just make the price of AE86 and 240sx go up which is bad for me because I cant get a car till the summer. (it will also make it harder to practice just like how the cops locked down on street racing due to ricers.)

I have noticed at school kids are saying they are getting 240's and are going to swap SR's. It is just getting ridiculous. They all say they are going to have 500 hp, and make fun of me when I say I want 300hp max.

It is getting out of hand and needs to stop. That's my .02 cents.

[s0nny80y]

Man, at least the drifting bug hasn't reached the mainstream South Florida import scene yet. Until Drift Showoff comes down here in May. BTW, I got CSI: Miami running in the backround and a car chase was on. And guess what. They had a family wagon doing 90 degree drifts running from an escalade. But the good thing is that not many 240sx's are seen down here tuned to drift. Only high powered ones with rb powerplants. I hope I can pioneer it down here along with a couple of others down here.

[Nightwalker]

Originally posted by Ichi-Go
I agree that it is getting to be a huge fad and I was grabbed by this "fad" about a year and a half ago right before it went "mainstream".

sorry to tell you, but that's when it went mainstream.

[RX7_Drifter]

i think it good for more people to get into it. it just needs to be the right people!

[drift_angel]

I agree, it does need to be the right people. The idiots will get filtered out eventually.
Maybe I'm not serching very hard, but I haven't met anyone here in the Austin Texas area. Most of my friends have never heard of drifting. (I need to make some new friends.) With the exception of my husband who has been excited about this forever. He recently got to take a trip to Japan and hasn't stopped talking about it since.

[s0nny80y]

That's why the "fad" needs people like you guys to straighten out peoples misconception about drifting instead of bashing them. Bash'm and they get discouraged. Help'm get the "right idea" and drift tracks will become in demand, quality parts, schools, etc... I say this because I don't even have an FR car yet ! If you wanna be an isolated drifter and just leave the sport of drifting to the "real drifters", then don't go on the forums, where it's read by people worldwide.
That's about it.

[nissanguy_24]

Originally posted by drift_angel
Maybe I'm not serching very hard, but I haven't met anyone here in the Austin Texas area. Most of my friends have never heard of drifting. (I need to make some new friends.) With the exception of my husband who has been excited about this forever. He recently got to take a trip to Japan and hasn't stopped talking about it since.

Same thing in bakersfield CA. And we are only about 2 hours north of los angeles. Aside from me and my friends who i introduced it to. Theres no one that i know of that drifts. In a city of a quarter of a million too. Im sure theres a few dozen guys out there maybe. But thats about it. Most guys in bakersfield have what i refer to as the bakersfield special Civic sedan of some kind. green. chrome wheels, clear tail lights and a spoiler.

Very few RWD imports running around, And very few of them seem modified in any way visually.

[Ghost of Duluth]

You guys act like this is something new. This isnt new. Its just another car fad just like the ones that have been happening since the car was invented. You had the Greasers of the 50's, the muscle heads of the 60's and early 70's, the Mustang craze in the 80's and early 90's and now its the Import scene of the late 90's early 2000's. It's the same thing.

It won't be illegal to modify a car. Never will be. What makes it easy for them to make it hard to modify a car is smog laws. The gas crunch of the 70's brought the down the muscle cars. Took em down hard. Look at Nova's, Chevelles, any of em. The only reason they died is gas prices. Now it will be smog laws. Kids aint gonna take the sport down, the man is.

It's gonna peak and dry off. Just like it did in Japan. Then it will enjoy a cult underground status just like in Japan. Just remember, they wanna be like us and we wanna be like them.