What's The Better Drift Car: A Ford Focus RS Or A Modified Toyota GT86?
The Toyota you see in this video here is no ordinary GT86, and not just for its Initial D-inspired livery. It’s been given adaptive dampers that allow you to run a soft setup at the front while keeping things firm at the back, making it more prone to oversteer. So essentially, it has a drift mode.
Autocar was keen to find out exactly how it compared to the most famous of drift modes - the one found on the Ford Focus RS. The Focus used isn’t standard either, as it’s running a Mountune power pack, which should make it even better for sideways tomfoolery.
In the end however, there isn’t really a clear winner: the GT86 is deemed too underpowered for easy drift heroics, while the Ford’s synthetic oversteer moments are - while fun - deemed not to qualify as true drifting.
The solution? A turbo or supercharger on the GT86 would do nicely…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Neither. This is king.
Are you sure?
“What the best drift car?”
compares a RWD car to an AWD car
AWD car with Ken Block drift button tho… And my 7 yo sis can drift it
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Nah, ford focus SE wirh bikes on the top
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AWD drifting is Drifting. FACT
No. It’s powersliding
And the drift button is cheating
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“He who shall be last, shall be sideways and smiling”
RWD vs AWD sports cars
I don’t care how good your AWD system is, the front wheel drive in AWD means the car can’t hold a sustained drift for longer than a comparable RWD. AWD has a weak pullout game, therefore RWD is better… ladies…
Well, AWD lets you pull angles beyond your steering lock, but you need a lot of power or a lot of speed to pull it off, so yeah, AWD can’t pull the slides as long if they’re not tight, but it can pull steeper angles. So it’s a win-win for both sides, I’d say
Finally someone made a tofu GT86