...Today it Really Could Have...
After practice and driving to get some grub around 6:30 i was on my way home...
I came to an intersection of a main highway.. Route 9 and Hilliard..(going north)
There are two lanes.. one lane to turn left only and another to either right or straight..
and the same with the other directions(south)
The light turns yellow...but i am already going too fast in the left lane to slow down..
so i continue going seeing that no other cars in the other direction are coming...
There were none in the lane for straight or right only...
So im in the middle of the intersection.. and some crazy person going south bound in the left turn only jumps over to go straight... heading right for me going fast too...
I dont remember what i did...but i drifted left and then right quickly to avoid the horrible accident....
all i remember now is that i am thankful for having my tC... being able to drift or skid. or anything to save me from that...
my adrenaline is still going now...and that happened about 90 minutes ago....!!
anyone else experience a skid/drifting experience?!

 

drifting in a FWD

 

Agreed! FWD cars cannot drift. What you did was turn left and right.

 

To be more specific, he turned left and right hard enough to lose traction. Losing traction does not constitute drifting, because drifting is controlled. Plus it's not very controlled when you don't remember what happened .

 

Guess you did not see this then. A FWD can drift, its just not as great looking as RWD cars. What is drifting in the basics of the term?

WHAT IS DRIFTING?

Basically, drifting is getting your car sideways down a road. It doesn't sound very hard does it? Sounds a lot like power sliding huh? Well it isn't. It is much more complex, but it is not hard to learn it. Instead of a drifter causing a drift and then counter-steer to straighten out, he will instead over-counter so his car goes into another drift. That is the reason many drifters do it in the mountains, because there are many sharp turns put together in sequences. So in essence a good drifter has the ability to take five or six opposing turns without having traction at any point in time. Sometimes the coolest drifts (in my opinion) happens at long U-turns, when the car will completely go sideways throughout the turn and straighten-out at the end

Edit: Didnt add the link :oops: https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28232

 

Yea. From here http://streetracing.tiora.net/japan/drift/drift1.htm

Frront wheel drive cars cannot break the rear tires loose without using the handbrake or some rediculous weight transfer manuver.

A REAL drift car can apply enough power to the rear wheels to break the tires' traction and initiate a slide, or "drift." Once a drift is initiated, it must be maintained through the turn. On a RWD car, the driver can control the drift with the throttle, since the rear wheels are powering the car forward. A fwd car might be able to intial a slide, but they sure can't control it and control is the point of drifting, not getting sideways.

Drifting in general is retarded, and especially when you are "Drifting" a front wheel drive car.

 

Whether it was drifting or not, it's still an awesome feeling when you escape a crash using methods other than flat out braking.

About a month ago I was pulling out of a strip mall after a beer run. I looked right and being the idiot that I am, I start pressing the gas without looking left :oops: . After it's too late I look to my left and see a huge white van bareling down on me. I press the gas as hard as I can while turning left and I barely pulled out from being slamed. Of course if I were to panic and break, the van was lined up perfectly with me, so I would have been slaughtered. On top of that, there was lots of alcohol in the trunk.

So I know what he means. It might not technicaly have been drifting but it's still pretty damn cool. Imagine watching that one...

 

Something similar to that happened to me too like the first week I had my car. I was driving on the freeway going about 70, when all of a sudden I see a matress right there chilling in my lane. There was no way in hell I was gonna brake in time and since there was no one in the lane to the left I swevered left then quickly back right to avoid the mattress. If this was some other car I would have probably lost control. Oh, and 101 is the worst freeway to drive on...EVER. There's allways some debris there cuz of all the trucks that use it.

 

Highway debris stories can be amazing. I read one on the Mazda3 forums about a little girl's ghost on the road. Plus matresses, couches, refridgerators, etc.. on the road.

 

This guy I know hit a deer on the freeway and that totalled his Integra. He came to school once and he had pieces of fur still stuck in the car.

 

haha, ouch. I heard a similar story that involved a giant racoon. Totaled the from bumber.

 

how could he bring the car to school if the car was totalled? :?:

 

POWER SLIDE!!!!!!

WOO HOO FOR POWER SLIDE!!!!!

 

Sounds to me like you were just going too fast and need to slow the f*ck down so you don't smash up your ____ and be one of the statistics that's gonna raise insurance on the tC for the rest of us.

 

haha i have seen video of xb's in drift races.. i can show you me drifting in my tc and in a accord .. trust me with enough gas and hitting the turn hard you cdan produce a controlled drift with a fwd

 

No you can't. Sliding is not the same as drifting. Pulling the ebrake to get the car sideways is not controlled.

 

 

drifting is a controlled oversteer. can a FWD do it? yes, but i wouldn't call it drifting. like someone just said, oversteer in a FWD car is mostly induced but the ebrake.

 

ok call it spomething else than but it is for sure controlled cause i am controlling it. i can cut it short keep it where i want and snap out whenever i want i can even change the angle . so it is controlled

 

and also i said that i dont have to use the e-brake