Welp,  it's that time of year again in japan,  cheap dealership deals to counter the nobody wanting a new car delivered in snow. 

I plan on abusing this by picking up a Toyota GT86 RC,  to upgrade tune and otherwise thrash about,  depending on where in the world you are from this will either be a gt86, scion frs,  or subaru brz,  since the car is a result of companies pooling costa and development. 

The reason im going for the RC version is simple,  steel rims,  unpainted bumpers, interior accents removed and el cheapo exhaust,  all of which i would be changing for high end parts anyway so the RC means not spending 7k+ for parts i would otherwise be pulling off on the first week. 

Anyone on these forums have experience with drifting / working on drift cars? 

I have an old abused lancer that i have up until now used for my drifting fun but the chassis is starting to let go on it and really doesnt have much life left in it. 

the goal is simply to go sideways but for the car to still look good while doing so,  im not really interested in straight line speed or drag racing,  so the stock boxer engine will do once i strap a turbo or suoercharger on it,  but more importantly the gt86 rc has options from factory for a rollcage and strengthening struts all round to improvde rigidity,  another bonus. 

so any of you guys (or girls)  drift?  and please if your experience is in forza or gran turismo only,  move along. 

By all means post up pictures of your drifter (so long as its yours and not pulled off the interwebs) 

I have a whole bunch of drifter buddies.

Basically : get something used to bang around in. Get used tires, lots of them.

Buying a new car to drift in is .. well .. probably not the best financial decision. It's also really hard to do with that car if you put decent tires on it. It drifts well stock because the grip is fairly low (thin tires with mediocre grip = easy to toss, wider sticky tires = not enough power to push through with that low torque engine).

Good candidates are the ever-abused S13s, S14s, original 86s, S2Ks (these are starting to get to pretty good prices!), etc.

There are some other possibilities, but they're more tempermental. E36 and E46 M3s (or even 330s), Porsche 944s, RX7s (rotary hell), 300ZX, etc. I also know someone who tries to drift with a MazdaSpeed Miata, but the short wheelbase makes it tough to get the balance right.

IMHO drifting is usually the absolute worst way to go around a curve, but I can't say I haven't done a lot of dumb things with cars. I'm never lowering a car again, never doing DSM again, never doing AWD again, etc. I have basically a long list of stuff I'm done with.

86 is to under powered bra, you blow 10k on power soon enough and then another 10 making it last. Get a used 240 or a is300/altezza, better platforms to start with.

If you want newer and have the cash you can go for a Bimmer, be different look good and enjoy.

Dont really drift, my fun is mauling +100k cars on the highways.  I find the supra quite tempermental, not a nice tail happy car more of a she'll hold grip till she tries to kill you type.  

LOL your description of the Supra makes me think of my exact experience with a 99 Viper GTS with a Kenne Bell SC. What a deathtrap, tons of fun though.

@Ark
Yeah, not really looking for a full time drifter is the thing, just something to occasionally have fun with but be used aa a normal car 95% of the time, i know the new 86 isnt the standard candidate for drifting but over here in japan, the regulations and testing make maintaining a usable drifter for more than a year nearly impossible, i have several different cars currently from a finely tuned r34, to an old hakosuka, the lancer is purely for thrashing till the chassis gives up, Tachikoma also has one she abuses, a fully stripped down chaser with enough beans under the hood to give me r34 a challenge, but generally the sort of drifting we do is less about power and more about control.

I'm not alien to stripping a car down, even a brand new one, and changing absolutely everything, ive been doing engine swaps and custom fabrication for over 15 years ;)

@beelite
As i said above, i have cars for sheer power, cars for relaxing, just looking for a decent base to modify conservatively and fly below the radar of the strict shaken testing out here, whilst still handling and having the ride of a normal road car 95% of the time
Not a bone shaker ;)

My chaser is epic :P

Also, the gt86 has enough space for a 2JZ ;) 

Any Caddy ATS available there? I tossed one of those around at Texas Motor Speedway on a dealer event, and it was a ton of fun. With the right tires and the electronics shut off it holds pretty well as a comfy drifter.

I literally have zero idea of what's available in JPN.

mostly kei cars and minivans. 

oh and heres the chaser. 

^^ That looks great, love the 90s JPN styling so much.

Looks like ATS does fairly well at this kind of thing :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuAAJw55RB8

so does the 86 :D
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NBiTEm11os

You can have my spare TE37's Tamron