Skypowereds13, thats a long name, im going to call you s13 for this message. I have never heard of this site, and I'm very happy to have found this. Now I can let it all out and find my answers. First of all, I love cars, since the day I was born. I have a brother 3 years older than me. I was born 1988, and my father has always been into cars. He has raced/tuned and fixed up cars for money in Jamaica. When he moved to Canada, he had bought a 1988 mustang, now this thing is still in mint condition. Me and my brother grew up watching him test and tune his mustang, and sooner or later we followed his footsteps. Now I know so much about cars, and the ONLY GAME THAT IS REALISTIC IS GRAN TURISMO!
Starting from ps1 to now ps2. GT1,GT2,GT3,GT4. I have all of them. Right now the best one is GT3. Seeing as how I love muscle cars and rear wheel drive cars, the reason being is, you cannot beat a rear wheel drive car, the physics behind racing is a rear wheel drive car. If you were to race a front wheel drive car, you would get quite frustrated with the understeer. Anyways, yes rear wheel drive cars are the only type of drivetrain that will allow you to truely DRIFT. I discovered the drifting technique in GT2, the one for PS1, on midfield raceway. I was about 13 or 14 years old. I am now 18.
Anyways, once I got ps2 and gt3, I tried drifting and it was quite hard to adapt to the new feel of the car and physics behind the game. In real life i can somewhat drift, not like the real japanese crazy guys who drift like crazy, but I can hold a nice corner. I mean I know what it's all about, and it's real hard. Anyways when I finally got the hang of it, I could drift with any rear wheel drive car, and I still can. Then GT4 had come out and I was dying to get it, I bought it for 70 bucks canadian, and as soon as I had a decent car to drift with, I think it was a nissan 270r or something, I forget, but the point is, I COULDN'T! I had gotten so angry I almost broke my controller.
I tried everyting from going to the options and trying to make it a "real" drift car, POSI diff, and the tires, the weight transfer! Man, nothing worked, it was useless. One key thing I noticed was the donuts. I am not trying to brag, but I am quite intelligent, might say im a nerd... haha, but yes in gt3, when you do donuts, it's like a whirling effect, like the physics is real good, just like real life. When you do donuts in gt4, the car does perfect circles. How on earth can you do perfect circles? There is no real car that can do that, unless a 4wheel drive car, but even so it's still kind of hard. Thats when I knew the game just sucked, because when you take that aspect out of gran turismo, you just dont wanna play no more. So many times I have tried giving it another chance, and guess what, I just get mad and eventually pop in gt3 and drift till the morning. Me and my brother were so mad it's not even funny.
The good things would be this about gt4, EVERYTHING ABOUT THAT GAME IS AMAZING, except the driving, the one most important thing about the game. Anyways, another bad thing that you mentioned s13 guy, you said the weight transfer or something, you know the little meter that moves left to right, when you jerk your car left or right, weight transfer, i think its called. Anyways you are kinda right it's pretty kewl, but it is very fake though. In a real car if you were to turn fully right then fully left and keep doing that, YOU DON'T WIPE OUT, you may fish tail and the swinging of the back will increase, but in gt4, it's like almost computerized. If you try doing FEINT, like maybe, ONE, TWO, THREE, you just literally do a 360, it's so fake! I honestly want to like go to the headquarters of GRAN TURISMO or whatever it is called, and show them everything and what they need to improve, I mean I know what real is, and I'm sure some of you do as well, and all I need is like a Japanese guy who drifts in real life, and I can talk to him and tell him what is bad and im 100% sure he would agree with me. I'm just so furious because cars is my life, and gran turismo is my life. I have ps2, and its original, no chip or anything like that. I have only 3 games. GT3,GT4, and Tourist Trophy. All made by the same people. Please, can somebody answer all of my questions and comment on anything you would like. The tracks in GT4 are amazing, and are dying to be drifted on. I am new to this gtplanet thing, I dont even know how it works, and I hope someone reads this and hears my cries. I guess you can email me at
dusty_bc@hotmail.com. I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO SOMEONE WHO IS AMAZING AT THIS GAME AND KNOWS QUITE A BIT ABOUT CARS.
PEACE.
whats with the bold print? angry your wrong about gt3 being more realistic? i'm not repeating myself again. Of course drifting in real life is easier. doesnt take a genious to figure that out if you've ever stepped into a decent rear wheel drive car with decent power. 
don't you guys hint sarcasm
there is a added clutch involved but idk 
