How do you make a car "drift"?

Question

I've heard of it because of the new Fast & Furious movie. What does it mean? How can you make your car do it?

Answer 1

Drifting = controlled skidding under acceleration. Get a rear wheel drive car with high horsepower. Stomp the gas, break the rear tires loose, steer into the skid, try not to hit anything.

Answer 2

1st off you need a rear wheel drive car. what you do is get the rear tires to lose traction (i.e. start going into a skid) and with the steering wheel veer the opposite direction from the drift you are in. So if the rear end is drifting left you turn the steering to the right and keep in mind the rear tires are spinning faster than the car is going the whole time. Its quite fun actually, I have a pontiac GTO and Im a showoff and i love drifting around corners. I hope my explanation was understandable.

Answer 3

On a dirt road, from high speed you can just suddenly downshift or momentarily pull on the handbrake (turning the steering wheel will enhance the drift). On concrete or asphalt road it is quite difficult because the car will need to be on top condition to make the tires glide on the surface to drift.

Answer 4

I read that it takes a straight shift car and you have to have a certian amount of gas with a certain amount of clutch. When its right all you have to do is press on the gas and the wheels spin with almost no traction. Pair this with sliding downhill sideways and you've got a drift. Basically it's a controlled spinout going sideways... think of it as fishtailing except instead of you having no traction from slamming on the brakes, you have no traction because your tires are spinning out.

Answer 5

drifting is driving pretty much out of control. most standard or stock cars are unable to drift due to lack of power. in order to drift you need a lot of modifications done to your car to give it enough power to drift. as far as making the car accually "drift" as you take a turn very sharply you accelerate making your car almost hydroplain across the pavement

Answer 6

go really fast when you're about to make a wide turn and right when you make the turn...lift your e-brake up n let go of the gas whie you turn the wheel on the turn... and you'll drift..just make sure there are no cops around...kids in the street and parked cars in the way..cuz you might fish tail or something.

Answer 7

Get up really close to the car in front of you. It's worse that tailgating where you actually have a possible chance of stopping.

Drifting is what racers do in Nascar.

Answer 8

you oversteer a car pull the hand brak raise the rpm and then ur sliding

Answer 9

dont align the wheels