Hey.
I don't want to sound out of line or anything, but I'm sure something like 'what is a good car to start with' kinda thread has been posted a lot. But then again I guess it would not hurt (much) to ask anywho, maybe it's me, dunno, maybe the admins think differently or something...
On to relevance, it's down to what YOU want really... nearly every car that's rear drive or four wheel drive can be driftable, be it bone stock or modified, and regardless if you have a DS2 or a wheel (such as the Logitech Driving Force pro at 900 degrees), I know this since although I haven't been uptaking drifting too much as of late, I've been doing some decent drifting with such cases as bone stock cars (BMW M3 CSL N2 tires bone stock, same for a 300ZX Z32 98 on N2's as well, also Bone stock...) with the DFP and DS2.
A good car to start off would be a 'usuall' (I say usuall becuase they are VERY common) drift car such as a Nissan Silvia (S13, S14, S14, any K or Q varriant), 180SX(Japan)/200SX(Europe?)/240SX(America), Sil-Eighty, Mazda RX-7 FC and FD, there light and are easy to control and throw around to an extent...
Same for the AE86 model Corolla, the Tureno and Levin as they can be tuned eaisly as well to be drift cars (and perhaps bone stock but I honeslty had yet to try it, been busy working with other cars)...
The Toyota MR2 SW20 and ZW30 are also very driftable cars as well (old and New MR2's I mean), and can be very tail happy (espically my 320bhp MR2 GTS, depite the fact it's a nerve racking car, least how I've set mine up, I like it a LOT...), most MR cars such as the Lancia Stratos are tail happy and you could try those out as well.
Bigger more powerful cars such as the Corvettes, Vipers and Mustangs are also driftable, N1s or N2's can do the trick on those cars as well, cars in particular such as the Mustang SVT Cobra R and SRT-10 Viper can be a bit harder to drift, but on more than one thing...
Weight being one thing but that's a reason also why there so powerfull, and they aren't too difficult to get them sliding, it's keeping them sideways and recovering that's the hard part, a similar case with the Z06, although I expected that car to be more tail happy than it is in GT4, but then again I have to try it on N1 tires when I use the DFP again.
I'd go on, but basicly it's down to what you want to do, my suggestions though are this...
Try a car bone stock on N type tires and see what's what, it could be anything and on a track you're comfortable with and see what's what to you with any given car. A huge surpise for me was the Nissan Skyline G35(?) Sedan GT-8 (hope I got that right), I didn't know what to expect as I took it to Laguna Seca, but it's very driftable and it's a fun car, least to me with the Dual shock 2 controller, if I have the time I may try it with the DFP.
Also, less it's an absolute or just to experiment when boored, try not to mix tires, have equal quality tires on the front and rear, although it's true in some cases that there are mixed tire combos for some drifters in real life, this would be okay for say an RL situation where you can't always afford top quality tires or you can't change one part of a car to make it more dirtable without using that much money, so you may go for a cheaper option to use for example strong tires at the front and weaker tires on the rear (for say an GC8 Impreza Sedan or a 3000GT VR-4 turbo or a Lan evo 5..), however it's usually looked at as counter productive, thus not something that will work well, but really if you're just trying to rely on soley mixed tires. If you can learn how to drift on equal tire sets, then well it's a maybe, I only say so becuase I've been thinking of actually trying that on a GC8 I made to be a bit faster than a Z06 Corvette on Suzuka (but the GC8 is moded so yeah, but if I used my moded Z06 it would be a different story...)... see what would happen there.
If I got anything wrong, well Oh well I gues, nobody is perfect.
Guess that's all i can say for now.
Later.
It does what it says on the box. Then after you've gotten the basics of that, buy an Toyota Sprinter TRUENO AE86 and tune it up, add a lil HP. Or buy the Shuichi Shigeno edition of the Sprinter TRUENO and drift it stock.
So I suggest you start with an MR2.
