your definition of drift?

just wonderin what your real definition of a drift would be, here is mine-

for the rear tires to lose grip, and slide, but the front tires stay in the direction the car is going, throttle is used to keep the drift going because the rear tires spin more, and lose more grip, let off the throttle and it will straighten out, this makes it impossible for awd or front wheel drive cars to do it, because on an awd yur front wheels will grip, and set you straight, impossible for ff because there is no power in the rear so drift cannot be held at all.

i also think that a 'ff drift' is the same thing as a powerslide, but when drifting came, people called it drifting, but it is the same thing as powerslide was a couple years ago.

just my opinion on what a drift is, and what i wanna see what everyone else thinks it is.

Controlled loss of traction.

It's impossible for front wheel drive to power slide. You can call it sliding, ass dragging or even stupid but power slide has a pretty set definition; overpowering the rear tires to induce oversteer. This obviously can't be done with front wheel drive.

AWD can drift in my opinion, because even though they are spinning they control the car, it just makes it harder... FF isn't not drifting if you ask me, but I won't get into that anymore... but yea I basically agree with what you said... I don't feel like getting all technical and writting it all out :)

isnt' this a repost?

Another thread about this. Next tiem do a search, there have been many threads talking abou peoples deffinitions. It always leads to a flamewar.

RWD&AWD vs. FWD.

of WHICH one?
lol?

where is... what's his new name.. s13iketani needs to come in and insert his definition from one of the other threads about this same topic...

or here. he sums it up much better than anyone else i've seen

drifting, in short, is using a RWD car to create a lack of traction to the rear wheels (the drive wheels) and power through a series of corners sideways, using inputs of throttle to the rear wheels to keep on course. drifting is NOT getting sideways for half a second around a corner. drifting is the art of stringing many corners together into one long seamless run. it can be described as "artful recklessness", as basically you're out of control, but in control at the same time. you're trying to keep your level of out-of-control-ed-ness under control, if that makes sense.

and yes, in my opinion, ONLY RWD cars can drift. like i said, drifting relys on the lack of traction in the rear wheels to power through the corner crossed up. if you have a front wheel drive car, you can get sideways, but a) you won't be able to hold the drift for as long because your back wheels will be locked up (from using the e-brake) and will naturally want to slide back into line) and b) you won't be able to go as fast, since you'll be using a form of braking. also, since it's the front wheels being used to power the car through the corner, they have traction it's just not the same, and i don't consider it drifting at all. there are people who do, though. FWD "drifting", i call it "ass-dragging".

so there you go, a simple definition.

from this thread (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=108991)

srry i didn't realize it was a repost

Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn!
Why doesn't anybody here know what a powerslide is!?
i also think that a 'ff drift' is the same thing as a powerslide
Wrong! A powerslide is overpowering the drive wheels to induce a slide, the front wheels of a front wheel drive car are it's drive wheels, overpowering them results in UNDERSTEER, which while in the technical sense is a drift, it is the exact opposite of the OVERSTEERing drift that most associate with drifting...
When people say FF can't drift, what they really mean to say is that FF cars can not go into oversteer through overpowering their drive wheels. This is but one of many ways to drift, there are other techniques that FF can use to drift. POWERSLIDING is not the ONLY way to drift, something alot of these RWD bandwagon jumping nazis just don't seem to understand.
Anyway, this has been done a million times before, this thread is the weakest link, goodbye.

goodbye!