You then need a few essential parts on your car to make it drift like in the movie "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift". Most important is an LSD (limited slip diff). This allows you to spin both rear tires at the same time, making it easier to drift. Other necessary parts include a bucket seat. Makers like Bride and Recaro have great one's pro drifters use. Coil over or lowered suspension is a must have to lower the center of gravity and stiffen the suspension of your car. That's about it for the main drift parts. If you want to make your car look like it's straight from the movie "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift", the you will need a body kit, big chrome wheels, neon lights and a big exhaust etc.
But remember folks and "wannabe" drifters, "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift" is just a movie and I don't recommend you copy that driving style on the streets. Have fun buying a drift car and be safe.
Drifting, a crazy, once underground Japanese motorsport born in the windy Japanese mountain roads or "touge", the Japanese word, as it's affectionately known these days. Drifting is a relatively new motorsport inspired by one 1970's Japanese circuit racer's unique driving technique. His racing technique was to use excessive over steer (rear of the car sliding out) in corners to maintain speed. Now, for any person clued up about circuit racing, you would know that over steer or under steer is not the fastest way around the race track. However, for this Japanese racer, his slippery, ice skater like corner exiting technique became his trademark and a spectacle to inspire the form of racing as we know today as "Drifting".
Drifting's popularity quickly spread through the country of Japan typically amongst the young male "boy racers", from the circuits to the streets. DORIFUTO as it's commonly pronounced in Japanese, soon caught the attention of the boys in blue, the police, for reasons I'm sure you can imagine…..Reckless driving, excessive noise from screeching tires, loud revving engines. Drifters now needed somewhere to practice their drifting technique without disturbance.
The quiet hillside "touge" roads became perfect drift playgrounds for the young drifters to perform their hairy auto acrobatic stunts. Of course, this didn't stay a secret from the police for a very long time and the danger of the blind, dark curvy mountain roads, persuaded drifters to move back to the circuits. Although a day at the circuit costs more than a trip to the mountains, it is still cheaper than lifting scrap that was once your nicely modified drift car from the bottom of a mountain.
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