Tom Ford plays in the amazing new Lexus LS460 - a car so clever it can drive itself down a motorway, automatically steering between the white lines. It’s laden with impressive technology, but at £71,000 we came to the conclusion you could do better for less.
For a braking drift you’re essentially keeping the front tires on the hairy edge of their traction limit and making the rears exceed theirs. The braking drift can be a very fast way to slide out a car that has initial oversteer on turn-in and understeer on sustained cornering. Setting up a car this way is easily done by reducing the effect of the frontal sway bar and lowering the dampening effect of the front shocks.
Car club meetings and car shows are home to a strange, if not disturbing phenomenon. Perhaps it’s a guy thing, or subconsciously the end result of an environment that constantly tells us to buy enlargement pills online for cheap. If you’ve been to one of these ‘meets’, you’ve more than likely been witness to these bizarre occurrences. A group of people standing around a car will be looking down, excitedly pushing down on something, and then one person will look up; wild eyed, and comment “hey, that’s pretty stiff!” It’s not really something you would want to hear out of context; like say, in the men’s bathroom. Now that our minds are in the right place, it’s time to tear apart this preconception many of us have about having a stiff ride.
I am going to admit, my first reaction to this car was “whoa!”, because I have never seen a 79′ Skyline Sedan before. This is one amazing car that I found when browsing for JDM imports on google, and found a nice little site called Terra2Imports thats based in Canada. But this car is a beaut’, I love the rims on it, and the way its dropped out, looking really clean with a Old School JDM Bippu style to it. I also like the exposed front-mount oil cooler, Japanese car tuners never cease to amaze me.
The Nissan Skyline’s 50th Anniversary exhibit opened Tuesday, April 24th at Tokyo Midtown, and that means that the new Skyline Coupe (a.k.a. Infiniti G37 here in the States) has made its first official appearance. The exhibit in Tokyo features examples from each generation of the Skyline, and the opening event was attended by luminaries including Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe. A series of television commercials featuring well-known personalities like Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro is also being aired in Japan to coincide with the 50th Anniversary and the Coupe’s launch. As for the Skyline Coupe, what’s there to say? It’s got all the goodness of the G37, just with Nissan badges — and a name that carries some serious cachet in Japan.
Gotta admit that this one left me totally speechless. Ok; I can find some kind of logic in turning a Peugeot 406 Coupe into a Ferrari 360 Modena, a Lincoln Continental into a Rolls Royce Phantom or even a MX-5 / Miata into a BMW Z3.
In this video a japanese drifter is getting a Nissan Serena sideways, not that sideways, but he is still drifting it, pretty sweet!
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The return of Ford representation to the Toyo Drift Australia Series will add another element to the continuing V8 Drifting invasion, when the series takes to Mallala Motorsport Park this weekend, April 14-15.
While four and six cylinder Japanese cars have dominated the sport, true to its origins in Japan, V8 muscle has made strong inroads.
In the Toyo Drift Australia Series, Holden V8s arrived in 2005, with Jeremy Lake taking out the final round of the season aboard a Monaro.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors will decide today whether or not to uphold a decision to allow drifting at Altamont Motorsports Park.
The Alameda County East Board of Zoning adjustments ruled 2-1 in March that both drifting and overnight recreational vehicle camping are acceptable activities at the speedway, and that drifting is an acceptable form of motorsports. A group of track neighbors called Community for a Better Altamont appealed the decision, putting all drifting events on hold until today’s hearing.
