Now this has been something that has confused me for literally years and I have not been able to find a discussion on this subject, however there may be one that I have missed. The problem is with a certain group of cars that are to my knowledge fundamentally incapable of drifting effectively.
Through my experience of drifting which is not great but at least half way decent I have noticed that most cars are capable of holding a significant angle through a corner, others are capable of holding an insane angle such as the more dedicated formula drift cars. But there is a group of cars that to my knowledge simply find it difficult to hold even a sub par angle at times, most of these cars fall into the hypercar and supercar category which I can understand and believe as these cars are not built for that purpose and to expect them to drift perfectly would be asking a lot.
But some of the cars in this group are cars that while they may have been designed and built for a more grip based racing style I find it quite difficult to believe that they would be that bad at holding an angle, many of the Porsche models fall into this group and I know that cars with a rear or mid-engine design can be substantially more difficult to drift and are known for being unstable but cars like the 2016 BMW M4 GTS and the 2012 Jaguar XR-S as well as some of the other Sports and GT cars have a front engine layout and simply lock up once you get past a certain angle that most cars will drift at without fault.
I dont know if anybody else has encountered this problem, if there is anyway to counteract it or if anybody could explain why this is a problem with these specific cars when other cars with relatively the same body shape, weight, centre of gravity and power have no problem.
Thanks to anyone who can answer this or explain it.
Alright so I spent more time than I should have trying to give you a decent answer to your question but just couldn’t decide on how to word it bcuz I don’t know what you already know and just to save time for both of us here a link on reddit that I stumbled upon trying to form my answer lol. This should get you started and I didn’t read every comment on there but from what little I saw on there it seemed like you could find some answers to your kinda general or slightly vague question. Also there are some very knowledgeable players on YouTube which I normally wouldn’t tell someone to find info out on there but at this point I feel like you just need info. Even if it’s not 100% the most accurate it’ll still get you started and you might not know the different right now anyways but also if you do get some misleading info here and there it will help you figure out how and how not to build your car. I’d argue the learning how not to build cars might be just as if not more important bcuz not everyone drive the same way so for me anyway it’s a lot of trial and error to get each car you wanna drive to handle how you want. Good Luck don’t expect to become an pro tuner overnight. I’ll play a decent amount and I’m still experimenting and learning something all the time. Also there’s prolly a lot better subreddits about what you wanna know I just stumbled upon it so you may have to do some digging around but it should get you going https://www.reddit.com/r/forza/comments/a8bn0c/what_is_the_best_tyre_grade_for_drift_zones_in_fh4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
When you say “lock up”, do you mean the car gets stuck at whatever angle it’s at and won’t respond to any inputs for a few seconds? I’ve had that problem on a variety of cars in all the Forza games. I’ve never been able to predict what cars will have this problem (except the Hoonigan Porsche) or figure out why it’s happening. I also haven’t been able to determine what will eliminate it. There has been several times I thought I figured out how to get rid of it, but the solution doesn’t work on other cars.
I just avoid those cars which really sucks because the Hoonigan Porsche looks so cool and mine is undrivable.