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.
Comments
GT86, because Eurobeat.
I never said drifting was opposite lock, if all tyres lose grip thats not drifting either, you want the fronts to grip hard and the rears to not grip. Drifting is just controlled oversteer at the end of the day. Angles 1 through to around 10/15 you arent gonna notice since theres hardly any slip angle there, from there to 20/30 the car tends to be turning and a slip angle wider than that will be oversteer/understeer
All 4 tyres is known as a 4 wheel drift. So it is a type of drifting.
Either I choose this ⬆️