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Originally Posted by OldSkoolToys
I would slide that ass all day....nice civic!
Of course, if I were at Ebisu I'd ride anything on the track available, including a bicycle....Chiba-san it up! 
I think your problem is that you're wayy to caught up in some fanciful "legit" world of drifting. Street drifting (And its drifters) were never about what was 'legit', or proper, or correct....exact opposite. The fact is, if the car can drift, its a legit drift car....
So some guy spends a fortune doing a FWD -> RWD conversion...ok, that's fine. He any good though? Got the skills to back up that fat wallet? Did he do it to prove a point, or because that's his style and his dream?
Hell the only reason I rag on Honda's is because they were all FWD (S2K obviously not included). If the old EG and EK hatch civics were RWD, the integgy was RWD, etc., they'd be some of my favorite cars. |
Dont get me wrong, I love the FWD -> RWD/AWD conversions! This is one of my favorites:
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Absolute beast of a car that celica is. And I completely agree with you on the honda part, although those cars are serious competitors to purpose built sports cars, so I suppose honda did something right. I have to say that if a civic came in this trim, stock, it'd be an all around winner.
The thing that bothers me about calling a fwd car a legitimate drift car is definitely that ANYTHING with enough money thrown at it become a good drift car. But stock for stock is what differentiates a legitimate sports car(FT86) from a car trying to be sporty(tC). If you take a look at the original tC drift car, there wasn't anything left of the original car. When I saw it drifting with the other D1 competitors, it seems like its trying its hardest to show that it can keep up with the big dogs, so therefore its a cool car. Its all marketing. Its not like Toyota picked the tC to drift with because its better than their previous RWD cars . . . support fredric aasbos supra!
<--for the sake of entertainment
Its not the word that bothers me, but the implied meaning behind it. It screams "I can drift if I wanted to, I just don't want to" lol..
To me, a legitimate sports car is ready to race(/drift, in this case) from factory, not after massive modifications that the average gearhead would never attempt.
Also, you are aware the first american D1 winner won in a civic?