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Moving on as everyone already knows where I stand on the name thing.
I'm actually a little concerned about the "best in the world for drifting" comment. They said they aren't going with a 50/50 weight distribution to make it easier to induce oversteer thus making this car easier to drift. Also the car is supposed to cost somewhere near $20k usd which is well within reach for most 16-20 year olds. Is it really smart to make a car that from the factory naturally wants to oversteer available to a lot of relatively inexperienced drivers?
I mean the last thing we need is a bunch of teenagers trying to dorifto around every corner and crashing into trees. Next thing you know parents are suing Toyota saying the car was unsafe from the factory because it was too easy to kick the tale out. If the car gets mis-labled as unsafe due to operator error it may scare off toyota (or any other manufacturer) from producing these type of lightweight RWD driftable cars.
It's already happening over on the genesis coupe forums. There are tons of threads about how member x totaled his brand new coupe because he was trying to take a turn at too high a rate of speed and lost control. They always claim that they weren't doing anything they hadn't done on the same road before in their FF sport coupe. Granted it's not the cars fault and a driver mod is desperately needed in these cases but that doesn't matter to the insurance companies and general public oppinion.
I'm just saying making this car the best in the world for drifting could come back to bite Toyota in the butt. What do you guys think?
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