are donuts/general drifting
 

bad for the car in anyway besides wearing down the tires? does it mess up the suspension? alignment?

In short, a vehicle is not really built from the factory SPECIFICALLY to deal with the stress on the car caused from drifting.

Will you hurt the car by doing a couple donuts or kicking the rear end out? Probably not. But at some point, something WILL end up breaking. It could be anything from the tie rod snapping to blowing the transmission or diff. Sometimes people just pull the short straw.

Only thing I would recommend is if you're going to do it, do it at a sanctioned event and make sure that you'll be able to live without the car for a while should something break. It probably won't happen, but there's always the chance.

It's like motorcycle riding. People say there are two types, those who have gone down and those who will. With drifting, there are those who have crashed/broken something and those who will.

I got my extended warranty for 125k and 7 years for everything except normal wear to stay drifty:burnrubber:

Well said. It may be sporty and fun to drive, but it's still a passenger car. And the motorcycle comment is spot on.

As for the motorcycle, I kinda just fell over on a u turn so I'm hoping that counts as my fall

Now that you've experienced it, you'll recogonize the symptoms next time it happens.
- Won't be a *complete* surprize.