2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STi
This hooligan may be dressed down slightly from the 2007 WRX STi, but it still has menacing grip and enough turbo boxer-induced grunt to make even the most sedate owner turn into an instant raceboy. More than 300 horsepower in this little wagon and Subaru’s notoriously awesome all-wheel-drive system can make the WRX STi tractor-like in slippery conditions. An adjustable differential that directs power to the front or rear wheels also gives the STi versatility to carve corners or drift in four-wheel, tire-smoking glory. As with any Subie, there’s enough quirkiness to ensure your individuality remains intact while you destroy the more run-of-the-mill imports from Japan. Whether you are looking to run with the upscale European sports cars or beat up on American Muscle, the WRX STi is a ride with enough versatility, drivability, guts, and style to ensure the rear bumper is all the competition is accustomed to seeing.
We could argue this topic til we’re blue in the face, hence why it’ll likely get locked.
It is still drifting, even if it’s not recognised in competitions. Just because I cant find a mango in the produce section at the grocery store it doesn’t mean it’s not a fruit. Maybe it’s in the back drifting all four mango’s.
If the car is sideways, your foot is on the gas, and you have NOT lost control of the car, you are drifting. I don’t care how many drive wheels there are.
Power sliding that’s called for AWD … drifting is the art founded by the Japanese drifting there RWD cars down mountains having fun then evolved into a sport and the word drifting took off and lost meaning after ken block power slided his wrx in a few videos .
The true meaning of drifting was said in the other thread this guy put up .
Of course turn 10 would say drifting cause ken blocks power slide videos are most common watched videos out there hence the reference .
Rwd takes alot of skill to perfect AWD power sliding is just hand brake slide in slide out knowing you wont get into trouble cause theres power at the front to correct any errors and straighten up .
guess the japanese invented rally racing too by your standards sense rally racing involves allot of drifting er i mean"powersliding" through tight roads. then again this comes form a guy who loved watching old group B races. Also, if im not mistaken, doesnt Kuma Kubo drift a AWD car? or is it converted to RWD?
Drifting is a driving technique where the driver intentionally or unintentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels or all tires, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. A car is drifting when the rear slip angle is greater than the front slip angle, to such an extent that often the front wheels are pointing in the opposite direction to the turn.
I’m not here to argue, I drift RWD and could care less what the other drivers are using. We all clearly love drifting and that should bring us together to compete and have fun. No fight over what style Drive train each others car has. Build it, Tune it, Drift it!
I just hate the AWD " power sliders " attitudes cause they cant perfect rwd drifting they stick with AWD and try to prove to everyone else its real drifting and they have skill too .
honestly this guy saw this in forza and was like OMG yesss finally forza acknowledges AWD cars as drifters I can come on here with my argument and finally prove to everyone that im a drifter with skill too .
I have no problem with them but there attitudes and constant struggle to try and justify what they do to get acceptance from RWD drifters is annoying and the topic has been done to death .
TBH I drift in both. You’re not wrong that RWD takes more skill- a LOT more. I just think ppl overthink the whole thing.
Your retort for example: power-sliding and drifting are really the same thing. Using “power” to “slide” the tail end around in a controlled way. It’s just semantics.
This is why the drift lounge has had such a problem with this RWD and AWD debate.
AWD points drifters come in here way to much to try and make a point about how this or that is really drifting. This place being all about RWD and tandem/battles it just gets annoying.
It was completely unnecessary and childish to make this topic TWICE. I mean grow up and stop trying to prove yourself as something King Posh. Just stay in your #1 drifter and tuner topic.
Honestly if you’re points drifting WHO CARES what you’re driving or what you call it because it’s all the same, hell I’ve see fwd cars dominate points rooms(legit fwd cars not converted) against rwd and awd cars but put these same fwd/awd cars in a tandem room and it’s like they’ve never herd of the word drifting and most rwd points tuned cars are the same way(they are horribly slow and couldn’t hold a line if their life depended on it). To me drifting is drifting no matter how many or which two wheels you are using but a forum where tandem/battles are the main focus well awd and fwd just don’t stack up, well 98% of the time they don’t.
So by that logic, since forza doesn’t have night time or weather means they don’t exist right?
Just because T10 says something doesn’t make it true, kinda like how all car models have the same amount of detail.
Me personally on forza 1 i did some power sliding and it was fun. But I have read this thread now and i can not stop laughing. See the ppl in the forums yes we all have our opinions but we don’t need to be raggin on eachother. The majority of ppl on these forums are RWD drifters but I think forza ruined the community by implementing “AWD Drifting”. It was something when i got bored I would slide in AWD. But from a competition standpoint it is not liked or allowed. So im just gonna say do what you want. But I suggest you give RWD a go. And I promise that you will suck at FIRST but all you have to do is just keep at it. That is a big problem with this. If you try something and you are not good at it you just run back to what you know. You are not going to learn anything from being in your comfort zone.
But anyway if anyone wants to tandem hit me up and i hate that i have to say this but RWD ONLY lol. Anyways i hope we stop cryin in this thread and someone can just delete it or lock it lol.