Drifting?

[07WYarisRS]

Originally Posted by eflb55

ok so is my yaris, american sedan, a front or rear wheel drive? and regardless of whether i can "ass drag" or not, can i drift and how, detailed please.

If you don't even know if your car is front wheel, rear wheel or awd or the very most basics on drifting don't even try it let alone in a FWD car.
You will crash or roll your car. And YEs it is VERY easy to flip your car drifting.

Drifting means all 4 wheels are sliding in a controled slide.
This takes speed, HP and good hadling, something the Yaris does not have...
To really drift and control it while accelerating you need rear wheel drive or allwheel drive, something the yaris also does not have.

The ONLY way you are going to drift a FWD car is coming into a turn very hard and very fast, set up and brake for a bit of oversteer and continue to steer into it until the rear end has started to come around. At this time you counter steer and maintain the momentum keeping the rear wheels loose and then slide it around a corner. Often you will need to use the e-brake to help break the rear wheels loose. But most new driver or drivers with no experiance tend to let the rear end come around too much and they either wipe out or the car hooks up and flips over.

But again if you have that little of driving skills don't even try to do it on pavement.
If you mess up even a little this is what happens

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9CpujJDW9nY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu5vY...elated&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMrJj...elated&search=

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/50877/...rifting_crash/

[Ran Kizama]

Originally Posted by 07WYarisRS

If you don't even know if your car is front wheel, rear wheel or awd or the very most basics on drifting don't even try it let alone in a FWD car.
You will crash or roll your car. And YEs it is VERY easy to flip your car drifting.

Agreed. Save your Yaris and go buy a RWD junker to learn on. 240SX's can be found for around $1500 and are great learner cars. They're essentially the drifter's Civic since everybody has one. For around the same price you can also look for old Toyota Cressida's, BMW 3-Series, Mazda RX-7's or Miatas.

[supmet]

Originally Posted by 07WYarisRS

You will crash or roll your car. And YEs it is VERY easy to flip your car drifting.

If you roll the yaris, you either hit a curb, tried drifting at 100 mph, or you have wider tires than actually will fit on the back. The yaris is designed to slide out, not flip. Thousands of sixteen year old kids hand brake turn their cheap FWD economy cars every day, and only the ones dumb enough to hit the curb flip. I suppose you might be able to flip if you drift on reverse banked turn too, but then you fall into the dumb category again. But if you have a wide open parking lot, and you aren't gonna hit anything, spin that bad boy like there's no tomorrow. Learn what your car will do when you turn the wheel all the way at 50 mph.

To everyone else. Drifting, as defined by doing fancy spins and making lots of smoke, is done best in a RWD car, yes. Drifting, as defined by breaking your tires loose, keeping your drive wheels spinning, and attaining a hire exit speed than you could by keeping all tires on the ground, is possible in FWD, RWD, and AWD.

I'm trying to be gentle on the yaris(sort of) but I've done 360s, reverse 180s, "ass dragging"(call it what you want, I'll still come out of the turn faster than you), and all sorts of fun stuff in an assortment of FWD cars.