Top Drifting Cars?

[AE86 Dorifto]

Aw man lol at some of the stuff being listed. Mikespeed is almost dead on, but to be completely serious;

You need to ask a few questions and then qualify which cars are suited to the task.

Obviously any drift car needs to be RWD, but what's important in drifting?

In order of importance:
1-Angle
2-Staying sideways
3-Speed


Angle requires steering angle.

Staying sideways= controllability and power to maintain a drift...
So this one means BALANCE AND POWER/TORQUE DELIVERY

Speed requires a car with handling(this means drivability and feedback, not skidpad numbers)





Well very few cars actually meet all three of these requirements.

Most of the polular drift cars only meet 2

The biggest exceptions I can think of are the E46 M3 and E39 M5. Too bad most of us cant afford those cars and noone really wants to take their own out and beat on it.

So based on the above, here is my list of the best drift cars and their strengths. These are all cars I have driven by the way. And I would have listed a few Benzes except for them being automatic only....

E46 M3 has great angle, great power, and great handling

E39 M5 has great angle, great power and good handling.

240sx has great angle, low power, good handling.

FD RX7 has ok angle, good power, and great handling.

Miata has decent angle, ok power, great handling.

E34 BMW has good angle, ok power, and good handling.

E30 BMW's have good angle, ok power, and ok-good handling

E36 BMW's have good angle, ok power, and good handling

79-2005 Mustangs have good angle, ok-good power and ok handling.

Viper has low angle, great power, ok-good handling

FC RX7 has low angle, ok power and good handling

Corvettes have low angle, good-great power, and good-great handling.

Remember that these are just stock setups. Almost any of these cars can be modified to fix the shortcomings.

Also notice that I rank steering angle as very important. Maybe not all judges would agree with me, but generally you can do more impressive looking drifting when you have more steering angle, and especially do very fast and very sideways transitions. Transitions can be a real bitch in a car that has little steering angle... very easy to spin.

-Sean

You're talking stock aren't you? And if so, wtf is with the e30 having even "ok power"? Don't get me wrong, the e30 is one of my favorite cars ever, but stock the power is shit. Unless you're just going out and having a little bit of fun. They are torquey lil bastards for just going to the back of a warehouse but not competition.

In my opinion it's the driver not the car. I mean come on. Alex Pfeiffer (driver of the RSR s2000) recently entered the Formula D amatuer-pro competition with a bone stock AE86. He said the car was the worst peice of shit he had ever driven deeming it "undrivable". Guess what? He whooped everybody's ass. The best drift car you ask? AE86. Maybe it won't win competitions. So why call it the best drift car? The feel. The response.The willingness of the car to rev up to redline. Just the overall fun. Why drift if you're not having fun? Just my .

P.S. I know I'm gonna get flamed for this so I'll just tell you ahead of time. I'm not some guy that watched initial D and Said "OMG ThAt is t3h BestZorz Car 3v0r!!!11!1!!" I played with the car on Gran Turismo and decided I wanted one. About a year after I discovered initial D. I didn't think the car was badass because it was in an anime, I thought the anime was badass because the car I dreamed of having was in it after about a year of some friends thinking I was retarded for my dream car being a 1986 Corolla.