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What is with Aussies suckling on the teat of the American media hype?

All of a sudden drifting is the cool thing to do, and every pimply faced twerp thinks my car is fully setup for drift (jut coz my wheels have a slight camber to them).

Everywhere I look its drift this and drift that. Magazines touting drifting as this new sport that is cool, performance shops selling "drift kits" and kids doing fishies claiming that they just pulled off a massive drift.

Bollocks!

What shits me even more is that the same people touting drifting as the best thing ever to happen to imports know s-f-a about it. I've laughed too many times at some kid goin "I wanna take my car drifting, its fully set up it even does 12's on the track". Get bent hippy, a car that's setup for drag CANNOT drift, and if you try you'll hurt yourself and others.

The drift scene revolves around people thrashing their cars, warping their chassis, holding their bodykits in place by wires... how on earth can this be in anyway good for an import car.

I went to a drift comp held recently with guest jap pros and the "cream of aussie drifters". Watching the difference in the two styles was like listening to fine classical music (the jap drifting) and listening to William Hung sing (the aussies). A lot of room for improvement.

Anyway, the whole reason for this "I'm sick of misguided drifters and their stupid 'scene' they're tryin to create" thread is that some punk that lives on my street just took out my mailbox and half his car and came very close to parking his car in my lawn because he was trying to show his friends his awesome drift skills. I've spoken to him before and he goes regularly to drift meets and drops more names from an option video (the ones translated into english of course and sold in Autobarn) than anyone I've ever met.

There is no "drift scene" its just an excuse for halfwits that can't heel-toe or weightshift a car properly, and can pull off sick shkids and fishies to come together n cause havoc. Its an excuse for Ricebarn to tout their bodgy body stiffening strut braces and camber kits. Its an excuse for spray painters n panel beaters to make easy money off drift crazy kids who keep stacking thier cars.

While I'm a big fan of the D1 drifting competition, I've seen enough amature Drift vids to know the realities of drifting. I wish the kids here could see that too before they got in their silvias and drive it into other peoples front yards!

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What I'd really like to see are drift parks, where one can practice drifting in a low speed, safe environement. I'd like to see more technical days where demonstrations of drift techniques are given to these impressionable kids. Simply sayin "difting is cool, here's a copy of the Drift Bible" and sending away tot heir doom is not enough, and is unethical of those responsible for the drift hype, the media.

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oi don't whore my thread, only I'm allowed to :D constuctive criticism of this so called scene please.

And the kid had the nerve to ask me for hookups to get cheap jap parts, or if I could get a new turbo kit for him from japan, all this whil his half bent car has wiped out my mailbox.... he was 1 foot away from a raging shan...

I just bought a ticket when i saw a blue 350z in the shops.

This kid was there with his mum buying tickets too. He said

"I'd put big wheels on it and turn it into a drift car"

I thought in my head (save it for the bombed out s13's and

180's u fool).

I wouldn't contemplate difting my 33 let alone a spanking new

350z - starting to like those now. Makes my 33 look like a

dinosaur.

I cannot agree more Funkster. Especially when most people dont understand what driftin is, and when someone gets a little bit of oversteer, someone will say that was a wicked drift. Its all bullshit, and when i looks at websites like Ns.com and there sik drifter, it makes me sik.

Hope you pulled the kid that demolished your letterbox aside and had a "quiet word in his ear" i.e tore him a new ****hole and also gave him a new perspective on life and how his would end if he kept that childish immature shit up????

Although i must admit I'm a little older than most on this forum, and don't move in the same circles as others. I buy and enjoy HPI and Zoom and I must admit I'm also not influenced in anyway about drift or drag, i just enjoy my car.

kudos to fullock and initial drift for somewhat providing safe grounds for people to test the waters. I dunno if a hundred bucks will entice the nubile novice "drifter" to enter tho.

If anyone's watched the Drift bible there's drift park at the end where he practices techniques.

I've been to malaysia and they've got a few of these parks there too. I reckon someone needs to make a small investment and reap the benefits.

Yeah, it's pretty sad all the people who think they can drift and then take it onto PUBLIC ROADS!!! MORONS! a couple of months back me and my mates were walking back to the college from the shops and this ABSOLOUTE BOGAN in a green holden commodore with full roll cage inside comes tearing up the street and decides to try and drift. It was nothing but a show off, and LUCKILY he held it else me and my mates would've been sandwhiched against the damn wall! Argh! Tell that dick in the silvia to take it to the track or else he'll end up hurting himself or others, and not just letterboxes.

And for the record i read mags like HPI and Zoom as well, and i'm not interested in 'trying' to drift at all either... it looks cool when it's done right but i don't want to try it.

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