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[ghostchild316]

First FatF and now this,the world is really gonna end.
Whats next?
The Japanese tuners are gonna start ricing out cars?!?

on the other hand...

What if we kill all the riceboys first before they buy our precious RWD cars?
They're gonna kill themselves anyways...

[Sandhawk]

buy up all of our precious RWD cars, crash them and kill themselves and the cars.

Then comes stricter laws and higher insurance rates and bleh

[stanner]

yeah that does really suck. but on the bright side that means that rwd cars will be in higher demand, and thus raise the market value of our cars. but on the otherhand that is not much of a trade off. Stupid capitalist market driven economy.

[Suislide]

Originally posted by stanner
yeah that does really suck. but on the bright side that means that rwd cars will be in higher demand, and thus raise the market value of our cars. but on the otherhand that is not much of a trade off. Stupid capitalist market driven economy.

the only 2 pro's i see are that our cars re-sale value could go up, and also they could get more aftermarket support (ie more japanese parts available). but other then that, it's all bad news.

[Takeshi_Nakazato]

A con that I see is if all these RWD cars become really popular, that's gonna spell out more theft and such, like with all those hondas that are targeted with their super custom jobs and stuff. Time to start stocking our cars with some baseball bats and anything else we can get in the back of it.

[Fliquer]

and now all the little riceboys are going to buy this magazine and it'll make them think that they're Tsuchiya EVEN MORE, so they'll go out, buy up all of our precious RWD cars, crash them and kill themselves and the cars.

Whats your point? Anyone who wants to drift is going to crash at least once, riceboy or not. Its a given.

Personally, I dont think ANYONE (not even a riceboy) is vain enough to go BUY A CAR so they can pretend to be like some OBSCURE FOREIGN GUY they saw in a NONMAINSTREAM magazine who has a rare skill that CANNOT be applied to racing, or anything other than SHOWING OFF (I know some of you drift out of personal pleasure but if someones buying a car to drift out of pleasure than theres nothing to complain about. am I right?)

And even if this DID bring more people to the drift scene, wouldnt it be a good thing?

(BTW, S13 im not really talking to you personally...i think most people on this board have similar opinions about the "exclusivity" of rwd)

[mynismo]

missing some important ones...

T - turbo
TT - twin turbo
CAE - cold air extension

[Ace$nyper]

We can all hope that it's such a ricer mag it's all FF drifting (not true drifting but fun anyway hey it beats walking) Or maybe it might have a whole new staff and be a cool mag. why do i keep getting my hopes up?

[ghostchild316]

NISMO - actually short for Nissan motorsports

[Suislide]

Originally posted by Ace$nyper
We can all hope that it's such a ricer mag it's all FF drifting (not true drifting but fun anyway hey it beats walking) Or maybe it might have a whole new staff and be a cool mag. why do i keep getting my hopes up?

well, who really knows for sure. maybe Import Racer is only providing the funding for the magazine and is hiring a whole new staff of knowledgable people for it. that's the best case scenario. the worst case scenario is obviousley a bunch of know nothing Honda ricer boys running the magazine that know nothing about the sport or the cars involved. we'll see what happens when it comes out next month. oh, and it's not just for FF drifting. on the preview site (i can't remember the URL), they have the Mazoora Falken Toyota Chaser JZX100 that was at Drift Showoff last month.

Fliquer - of course everyone is going to crash when drifting, but SMART people who get into drifting will know to start off easy and won't expect to be a super-pro drifter the first time they try it. they'll start easy and therefore the crashes will be smaller and less serious. some morons (the Hot Import Nights crowd) will see the mag, buy a RWD car and think they can be a super pro drifter right off the bat. they'll go full speed into a drift and expect to soar through it, but instead they'll wreck into a telephone pole. i've heard of it happening before, and i don't want to see it happen again. also, it seems you have something against drifting. drifting IS showing off. it's purely for fun, and by doing it, we don't expect to lower our track times or go any faster in a race. we drift to drift, we drift for fun. that's what it's all about. i personally think drag racing is illogical (lets go in a straight line for 11 seconds), but i keep my opinions to myself and focus on what i like.

it IS good that more people are coming to the drift scene, but some of the wrong kind of people are converting, and they need to realize that drifting is an art form that takes years of practise to perfect.

[too-cool-2]

drifting is cool...ive only tried a couple of times, but its difficult to get right, i usually end up in the dirt, two times on the curb, thats why i kept the stock bodywork, if i go drifting i can just slap on the stock 240 bumper and i dont have to worry about damaging it because its sh*t already!

the funny part is people who know what D1GP is but think that its time based. its not. ranking is based on i think 3 judges. thats why its so fun to watch though is just to see the different styles that people use.

HICAS = rear wheel steering, (only 3-5 degrees) like on the new chevy trucks (that suck), and the prelude had it too. oh well, the skyline had it too. i hear its bad though because sometimes in in phase and sometimes its not (hard to determine during normal driving)

but the 240s with hicas also came with LSD (dont ask me why, i think its really stupid, but they did and non-hicas 240s didnt)