lets ignore the fact that everyone in here has probably already tried drifting on the street) and in fact I would encourage you to drift because it'll help you out on the road incase you lose control. like the time I hit black ice and almost ended up in the ditch but cause I've been practicing I was able to save my truck 
Unfortunately, since various drift series allow front-wheel drive cars in competition, and D1 in Japan actually has a class specifically for it, there is even less justification for calling it "not drifting" than with AWD drifting.
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Too bad many of the techniques used for FWD drifts in real life don't carry over well to Gran Turismo. Engine braking still isn't strong enough, and while handbrake drifts are easier and more realistic, momentum and feint drifts aren't quite as natural as in real life.
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Drifting a front-wheel drive car in real life, though, is sometimes frustrating, sometimes fun.You can't sustain the long, lurid drifts you get through a power-over technique, and instead have to think ahead and rely on momentum and weight shifts if you're even going to attempt to link drifts. This makes them uncompetitive in drift events against rear-drivers, and poses problems for tandems, which is why Formula Drift in the US bans them outright and why they have their own class in D1, because they're better able to tandem against each other rather than RWD cars.
With the right car, though, or with some adjustable rear camber bolts or links to dial out the egregious amounts of stock rear camber on most front-wheel drive cars, it's a lot of fun to do. Some cars that you wouldn't think of being that capable, such as the Mazda2 or even a plain vanilla 2.0 Sentra (the new one... at least on stock 16" wheels) and the "classic" SE-R are great candidates for this kind of tom-foolery. These are cars with a relatively soft suspension, a very neutral demeanor, not much rear camber and great engine braking, which allows you to initiate oversteer with a mere Scandinavian flick and a lift. I was vastly amused when a MotoIQ.com writer finally drove the Mazda2 and said out in public what we Mazda2 cognoscenti have known for a long time... that little car is almost criminally tail-happy in the right hands.
But do this on the track please. As long as your racetrack doesn't automatically black-flag you for drifting...
