Drifting: The next generation of Rice

[flohtingPoint]

Lemme tell you, I for one, am quite sick of all this drifting BS. For a couple years now I've seen the slow degeneration of what used to be a tight knit society (I was never a part of it, but I had respect for those who were). Hey, if you drift for fun (on a closed course), good on you. If you bought a RWD car because you wanted to be some uber drifter, but then go and do a body kit and paintjob before you do a single bolt on or mod, then you my friend sucketh mightily. If you go out and do this crap on public roads, please do me a favor and total your car by yourself. These drift punks go out and buy a Nissan, without knowing a damned thing about it, pay someone a boatload of money to do the work for them, then have the balls to tell me that they "drive a 180sx" and that they are a real "racer".

I've got my first Nissan 240SX when I was 17 (back in 97). I was one of none. That car met its end early this year when a Blazer decided to become one with it. While searching for another 240SX I've found that prices for this cars have skyrocketed cause moron kids will pay idiot prices for a garbage car with a truck motor in it. I bought mine for 1k, it was on its last legs... 1k for a car that could barely move, has body dmg, no stereo, and no options. Gimme a break...

My 240 has a SR20DET in it. I cannot tell you how many times high school kids and people rolling on 19's on their honda CRX's have asked me if I drift. They usually follow up with "Is that swap hard, I was thinking about getting a silvia too". I usually give them an odd look and tell them I have a 240SX, then go about ignoring them.

While I am tired of all these wannabe's and their "silvia's", I am a little happy about the increased availability of aftermarket parts. These losers that go out and rice up their Nissan's must be buying a couple parts, as I've seen the number of online shops increase ten fold. The prices are still kinda high, but now there is a little more competition so a bit of a drop has happened. Good on you lamers.

"But flohtingPoint," you may ask, "you have a link to your GT3 drift video's in your sig, dont you think this is kinda hypocritical?" I put bolts of energy through people, sending them into thousands of pieces, in RA3. This does not mean I approve of building a lazer and going to the mall and gibbing people. Its a video game...

/rant off

 

[Ethix101]

This has been covered many times before.

There will always be idiots, posers, or whatever you want to call them. When F&F came out, everybody wanted civics and eclipses to rice out so they could drag race. When 2F2F came out, everybody wanted Skylines and Evo's. Now that drifting is gaining popularity, everybody wants 240sx's and AE86's. I'm sure when the Dukes of Hazzard came out, everybody wanted Chargers. Just ignore them. They'll move on to something else eventually and the drifting fad will be over. Then, if you're still interested in it, you should be able to get cars and parts cheaper.



-Mark

 

[JohnBM01]

Face it, flothing. It's been covered before, and loving drifting is like sports sometimes. Either you love something very much, or loathe something very much. But if I have to go through a topic like this once again, then damn it, I will!

To bring back what I have said, just because a car drifts around someplace doesn't mean it's rice. Now sure, mostly the sport compact folk are into it, but it doesn't mean it's only for them. The same discussion was going on in the GT4 threads, so my main response is... GET OVER IT! It's going to be in GT4 whether people like it or not, and I would like to welcome drifting. Oh, and I said it was mostly for sport compact types, so answer me this. Why is a new-model GTO in drifting? Huh?

And one more note, moderators, this thread should be moved to "Drifting and Other Motorsports." It seems more like a motorsports title rather than car talk.

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by JohnBM01
Oh, and I said it was mostly for sport compact types, so answer me this. Why is a new-model GTO in drifting? Huh?

Because someone thinks they can make money putting it there.

This has been covered many times before and doesn't need to be rehashed again.

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