EASY drifting cars?

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The only way you can get good with a wheel is to start with an extremely underpowered car and work your way up. They do that in real life and GT5 is no exception either.

It might just be me, but I found doing the exact opposite to be more effective, in my case atleast. The first day or so I tried drifting with my wheel I failed miserably using 250-300ish horsepower cars. Day 3 or 4 comes along and I hop in my 70 Challenger RM with the power limited to 450 for about a week. I see amazing progress and start to now drift DFGT better than a lot who have had it longer than me. Then somewhere in week 2 I took the limiter off and bumped it up to 750+ hp and I've gotten progressively better ever since.

Now that I've had it about two and a half months I'm fairly confident in my drifting, despite being rusty from no online.

The point in me saying all this is that I learned/am learning the wheel in a really unorthodox way but I've seen results a lot faster than people who start with stock cars and worked up. Now I have absolutely no trouble drifting stock cars or really underpowered cars, in fact, I'm starting to prefer them after my AE86 showed me the light.

All I know is that from wrestling with my high hp, torquey Challenger for weeks, its made me be able to drift a variety of cars faster with an easy learning curve. Now going from using my regular 800+ torque in my Dodge to roughly 150 in some of my 4 cylinder cars is a breeze.

This post ended up longer than I thought it would, sorry.

 

[Fe662]

yup the R8 V10...its a crazy car...got me used to the basics adn now i normally drfit something like the Z34 (370z) or the Ford MKIV (a surprisingly good car to drift with...) or the G37 Concept

dont know about you guys but i preffer a car with a smooth tourqe curve...with the exception for a few cars!

Lol u drift with a MARK IV?? Totally crazy!

 

[DC9990]

Easiest I've found so far by a long shot is a completely stock 240SX on CH tyres.
Was drifting beautifully even at the first corner of trying!

 

[Sander 001]

I'm new to drifting and only do it rarely and briefly so to get through the events I figured I need 4WD and mid engine.
So

Ford RS200

It's easy and it's fun. That's it, that's all.
I know I'm not doing it properly because it ain't 2WD and all that garbage...as if I give a hoot!

 

[savage_80]

I'm new to drifting and only do it rarely and briefly so to get through the events I figured I need 4WD and mid engine.
So

Ford RS200

It's easy and it's fun. That's it, that's all.
I know I'm not doing it properly because it ain't 2WD and all that garbage...as if I give a hoot!

I dont mind awd "drifting" aslong as they take advantage of having the awd system. And use it to get huge angle entries at crazy high speed don’t see the point it putting 90% power to the rear.

 

[jez0099]

s13. enough said

 

[Willfred_1]

don't try to run before you can walk as I've done the exact same.

firstly just use for races to get used to the force feed back then turn up the force feed back slowly.

once you have mastered the grip racing,go to rallying as it brilliant for teaching counter steer and throttle control to maintain a slide

Then try drifting on dirt in a rwd as the 10% difference for awd to rwd makes a big difference.
Then go on to a track with something like a s13 and just practice getting round 1 corner.
I started with the 1st corner of Tokyo till I could drift round it with out spinning

then go to a track like tuskba (probably spelt wrong) or autumn ring and learn to drift the small sweeping bends on the first corner. then use something more powerful like a 450-500bhp rx7 or similar car

then slowly move to the more complex corners after perfecting each corner work on chaining them up

 

[Adamater210]

I feel like cheating when I drift with the 370z, it's extremely stable just leave the suspension alone and lightly mod it, not too much power. stay around 400hp

 

[Megamarcx84]

The standard model supra is stupidly easy to drift in the game...truth be told any car rocking the jz engine can be made into a stable and predictable drift car w/ a full customized suspension, ecu upgrade and perhaps some weight reduction...the supras, sc300/soarer, and gs300/aristo are damn near interchangeable...

 

[aland18]

Weird that this thread popped up because I was gonna start a recommendation thread. I'd say I'm a decent drifter - I'm not a high speed drifter but I do get decent scores on the drift seasonals and the sector runs. My current best Tsukuba run is 19,600.

I was goofing around last night with a RUF RGT 00 - found it amazingly easy to drift AND control once you get the HP up to about 430.

The ONLY change I made to it was to bump up the horsepower but everything else was bone stock. I ran CM on the front and CH on the rears (which is what I normally do). No suspensions changes, no tranny changes, nothing. Excluding the increase on horsepower, I was running it straight off the showroom floor. I know its an MR car but for folks having trouble learning how to drift, it might be a good learning tool.

I bought an extra one last night since it popped up in my UCD. I'll share it if anyone wants to try.