A Jetta for @dkreindler…
This car could use about 35 fewer design elements, but I'm curious to see how a Chevy-badged supermini with any hint of style will do in Europe.
"Hi, I'm Alain Prost, and I'm still better than Ayrton Senna."
I can't claim to know much about this, but I'm looking forward to the film.
The production's Facebook page is here.
Previously on Carchat: FWD 3000GT driver yanks e-brake and executes a schweet dorifto.
I spent some time browsing the related videos on YouTube after watching that 3000GT clip. I couldn't help but notice that a lot of the videos were very poorly shot, overly produced, wreckless, and completely retarded. Let's explore some of the reasons why real racers seldom take the drift kiddies seriously.EDIT: The comments are those of the author and not of CarChat in general.
1. Drifting is not racing. There are no style points in racing. Form follows function and if you're doing anything in the interest of showing off, you damn well better have won the race. If not, you're a lost cause. For those who would point to rally and suggest drifting is racing, notice that, in rally, drifting serves a purpose relating to carrying speed through a corner in an actual race. 2. For most of the kiddies posting "drift" videos on YouTube (often: "illegal mountain street race drift" type bullshit), tires squeal at the limits of adhesion. Hate to break it to you, but you need the testicular fortitude to CROSS THE LIMITS of adhesion and actually hang the ass end out. If not, don't bother fancy intros and music for what is essentially you and your numnuts pal demonstrating understeer in old RX7s. 3. Speaking of drift kiddies, you do know that every legitimate gearhead or racer in the world would be well within their rights to smack you straight in the mouth with a jack handle for the way you carelessly street race and act a fool on public roads. Your idiotic need to emulate some retarded crap you saw on your video game does more damage to real racing than you can imagine. Cut it out. You're making us all look bad. 4. If you insist upon being some kind of underground, dorifto superhero, though, please remember that you don't need a 900hp Supra, S14, Tein this, JIC that, spikey hair, and As I Lay Dying blaring out your rolled down windows. You don't even have to be a mouthy, high school wanker, either. Consider these blokes from Sweden. If you're going to engage in an illegal not-quite-a-real-sport, at least be a little different, eh? Old dudes actually drifting with a VOLVO. (Your beat-ass 240 ain't got nothin' on the Swedes, who likely honed their drift skills on icy roads, wherein there was reason to learn that kind of car control.)
Pursuant to the past posts on #carchat, I stand by my original estimation of the Fiat/Chrysler deal, even if this is the "short view".
According to our observations, experience and analysis, the greatest weakness in road safety are road users themselves. As motorcyclists, we are far more vulnerable when things do go wrong. It is therefore our goal to improve the aggregate skills of all road users in order to reduce the preponderance of collisions inattentive road users cause.
Wonderful. Yes, there are people who have actually realized that bad driving is a huge cause of road collisions.
When can we elect them into office? How can we help?
me drifting my 1994 3000gt. For the record; this is a closed course do not attempt, it is an SL which is FWD. Yes, I pulled the E-brake and "drug the ass" around the corner, I AM a badass for doing this and I dont care that I didn't pull this off because I have in fact done it many many times just not on film. I also own a Mustang GT that drifts properly so dont think Im some ignorant ricer dragin the ass of my FWD import. It was fun and a buddy recorded me having a good time one day get over it! Thanks for watching!
Probably the most B.S. "story" to go along a shitty "drift" video.
Here's a little experiment. I'll be inviting some of my most trusted and respected voices in the auto industry to contribute short, snippet-style articles. What, exactly? I'm not too sure…
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