Drifting the new FAD?

[drift_A70]

THE "FAD"... I know what ya mean I live in Indiana and thanks to all the magazine coverage of D1 and Import Tuners 86 coverage. All the little ricer civic kids want to get 240's and go drift. I can't say much about that though cause I upgraded my Honda for a RWD, but I did it for the sport, not the trend. I'm glad that they are showing the sport over here and in the mags but now every high school kid with APC drift stuff is going to think there car is magically going to do the perfect slide. This is going to give the sport a bad street rep in my opinion. It is only my opinion so who cares.

[drift_A70]

Originally posted by RX7_Drifter
i think it good for more people to get into it. it just needs to be the right people!

AMEN!!!!

[gundamzeta]

Originally posted by nissanguy_24
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.

same here, ... stockton california is RICER city. It's downright disgusting. LA may have an exponetially more populated area, but I'm willing to bet that stockton has a higher concentration or a higher ratio of ricers than any other city in the nation.

[Nightwalker]

Originally posted by gundamzeta
same here, ... stockton california is RICER city. It's downright disgusting. LA may have a exponetially more populated area, but I'm willing to bet that stockton has higher concentration or a higher ration of ricers than any other city in the nation.

I think Modesto has Stockton beat

[nissanguy_24]

Haha, i think its just the central vally guys!. Ricers are like Smog, no were for them to go. so they just stay around.

[RX7_Drifter]

just like when i went to drift day. those guys were great! always up to teach you, talk,very humble people.not cocky or anything. thats the kind of people we need!

[emission]

Usually a thread like this gets locked when people start complaining about all this ricer non-sense.

Basically anything that looks fun and cool will have "ricers" and you just have to accept it. Real drifters know who and what they are.

[gundamzeta]

Originally posted by Nightwalker
I think Modesto has Stockton beat

I doubt it. I go to modesto a lot, and there is no where near the amount of body kits and weapon R intakes.

[HasNoTiresLeft]

When the smoke clears only those who love drifting, not the "latest thing" drivers will be left standing....

then we get in our cars, and drift till theres more smoke

[Nightwalker]

Originally posted by gundamzeta
I doubt it. I go to modesto a lot, and there is no where near the amount of body kits and weapon R intakes.

McHenry on a Friday night. That's all I have to say.

[Alphajacks]

Reading this post is scary! It is true that all this drifting coverage is making everyone want to slide around. Hell I remember the street races on the weekend. I can just imagine all those dumass kids trying to go sideways every weekend now. I am the only RWD driver out of all my friends. Whenever I go out I go and practice alone. Just the other day though, I was watching the drift bible and some of them came over. Before you know it these guys are all talking about trading in their VWs for 86s and 240s. I felt like kicking myself in the nuts. Maybe I'm a bit selfish, but I think everyone else here likes the fact that there aren't a lot of people doing this right now. This explosion isn't going to help anything. Maybe they should make another super trendy Fast and Furious type movie hyping up drag racing even more and more, so everyone will think that it's the ultimate thing to do and keep their FWD rides.

[HasNoTiresLeft]

My god it would be scary... lol cause some of these guys cant drive straight.... much less drift.... Gaaaah !

[Ichi-Go]

Even though I am gettting into drifting. I like how small the crowd is and how down to earth and cool you guys are I want to be just like you.

[Toyota_RA64]

I'm noticing it too. Actually, it's been going on for a while. Magazines have been covering it a lot more and they too, are noticing the explosion in the market. It went from JDM-junkies to drifting. I guess they sorta do go hand in hand. It will die off, just have patience and don't stop drifting just because everyone else starts to, because just like other fads, this one will die off eventually. The sooner the better and it can get back down to the real fanatics.

[TxSamurai]

Guys I am looking at a 160-200 page magazine that comes out here every month in Japan. I live in Japan. I moved here because I was a mechanic through college, I know good manufacturing when I see it. There is a whole issue dedicated to four doors. Soarers, chasers, Skylines,laurels, Sefuiro, and some women own these cars too. You guys act like drifitng happened last year. It is old, it used to be a joke that caught on. Go look for Ebisu Circuit on the web. I want a full report by tomorrow on what you learned.
Oh yeah I saw a white Levin with an old school TRD widebody kit today ouside The grocery store.