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Eighteeteewhy
6,437 posts
38 months
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Honestherbert said: Its not drifting though is it, he's just handbraking an avensis.....on rear spacesavers at about 30mph. I don't see what you guys are seeing as so impressive?? it even seems the slo mo's are to hide how slow he's actually going!!
If this was in england with a guy doing it you would all be reacting in a completely different manor. Go on youtube and search streeto and you will find a hell of a lot better videos regarding car control.
Exactly this.
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Baddie
211 posts
87 months
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Skater12 said: What a Douche-bag! I reckon he was given the car by his elderly parents, tinted the windows and thought he was the dog's b  ks. Then discovered that handbrakes and and heavy estates are easy as piss to slide on wet roads. Nothing a few shots of Vodka and a brave pill couldn't do for anyone else. Drift Fail ! If this had been a 400 hp BMW would you have called him a "douche bag", which is a s*** insult anyway, or would you have exhibited html hyper-excitability? If you think this kind of driving is easily conjured up with vodka I hope you live a long way from the rest of us... ON YOUR OWN
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Baddie
211 posts
87 months
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traffman said: I am so jealous of his working handbrake , ps you can clearly see it lock the rear wheels in earlier shots.
Top marks for making a dull dull car into something far more entertaining.
Proof that even the underdogs have there day. Ok, drop the hub caps and you can't see the matt-steel rear wheels slow, fine. This in no way subtracts from this driver's extreme control over his yaw rate. Superb precision driving. I have never owned a FWD car, but the only thing putting me off now is that I cannot drive as well as this legend
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EDLT
14,592 posts
76 months
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traffman said: I am so jealous of his working handbrake This. I can barely lock mine on gravel while going half his speed 
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jonny33
87 posts
48 months
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Reminds me of me old 1996 A4 avant with miss matched part worn tyres on the rear. Ahhhh the fun
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Mrlol
102 posts
94 months
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alexmorse said: This guy has some serious car control skills! And big balls!!
Yes, you can see he changes his tyres for less grippy ones to make it slide; but come on, if you could, you would!!
Awesome vid The wheels may even be space savers ! If not, they are definitely steel wheels with much narrower and less grippy tyres than the front which is cheating a bit. Still, the lads got talent though 
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NaumanF1
48 posts
102 months
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How is this different from any "Hagwallah" videos this site often talks down upon? Just because it's not an Arab doing stupid things on public roads makes it OK? Double standards don't you think PH!
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J4CKO
7,574 posts
70 months
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Just your average Manchester illegal taxi.
Pretty Good though.
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BeirutTaxi
5,181 posts
84 months
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Maybe we'll see Mr. Block in one sometime soon :P
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dave stew
1,337 posts
37 months
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vz-r_dave said: Exactly, i wouldnt listen to those stating that its not impressive. To the majority of us on PH this is well beyond our skill level or what we are willing to risk/do. Spot on, very true! Of course my grammer and speling are perfect and I could easily do that drifting.
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Reardy Mister
11,054 posts
92 months
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f k me there are some proper heros on PH aren't there? He's got steelies on the rear because chopping up a set of 225/55/16 is expensive, as is spanking your alloys against the kerb if you get it wrong. They're not space savers, which is obvious if you're not Mr Magoo. I would love to see the personal efforts from all the armchair heros saying its not that impressive. It is. Especially in a fwd. yes, he hand brakes it to get it started, so what? So do pro drifters. Yes he's not going that fast, so what? That's not the idea of drifting, He's working in wet roads and with parked cars either side. No doubt the dissenters here would have gone through at 120. It's low grip - but so what? How else would you suggest he slide that platform and power, predictably? When you sling the arse end of a fwd drive out, you become a passenger, unless you're going slowly enough that whatever power you have at the front wheels can drag you out of trouble. That's why he's going slow, he only has 100hp to play with. A RWD can have its slide induced by simply overcoming the rear grip with power and then modulating the angle using the wheel and or the power, it's much easier (for me). I think we've proved the appetite for this sort of thing on PH so if you have video evidence of you doing something more impressive, by all means pst it up for comment.
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vz-r_dave
2,518 posts
88 months
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Honestherbert said: Its not drifting though is it, he's just handbraking an avensis.....on rear spacesavers at about 30mph. I don't see what you guys are seeing as so impressive?? it even seems the slo mo's are to hide how slow he's actually going!!
If this was in england with a guy doing it you would all be reacting in a completely different manor. Go on youtube and search streeto and you will find a hell of a lot better videos regarding car control.
Could you do it?
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forzaminardi
882 posts
57 months
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Brilliant. Totally absurd but bloody hell that bloke can drive (an Avensis at least).
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blasos
45 posts
32 months
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Mike Gill said: Hero Yes, Mike: Driving recklessly on a public road while people are trying to get from A to B safely is truly heroic.
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FestivAli
893 posts
108 months
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kit5871 said: Ken Block eat your heart out! We have a new Gymkhana star right here! I enjoyed that way more than I did Gymkhana 5. I almost clapped at the end it was that wonderful. Very irresponsible though, I hope he doesn't end up hitting someone one day.
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Fruitcake
3,826 posts
96 months
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Skater12 said: What a Douche-bag! I reckon he was given the car by his elderly parents, tinted the windows and thought he was the dog's b ks. Then discovered that handbrakes and and heavy estates are easy as piss to slide on wet roads. Nothing a few shots of Vodka and a brave pill couldn't do for anyone else. Drift Fail ! 
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UnderTheRadar
451 posts
43 months
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I went on a rally driving course a while back. The instructor loaded six of us into a Toyota Serena FWD people carrier and proceeded to take us around the course, mostly sideways, whilst calmly explaining lift-off oversteer. We didn't learn a lot - we were too busy looking for something to hang onto and if the seat in front had the letters SRS 
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EDLT
14,592 posts
76 months
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Reardy Mister said: They're not space savers, which is obvious if you're not Mr Magoo. I'm glad someone else said this, I thought I was going blind when I couldn't see the space-savers anywhere in the video.
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radlet6
736 posts
44 months
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Eighteeteewhy said: Honestherbert said: Its not drifting though is it, he's just handbraking an avensis.....on rear spacesavers at about 30mph. I don't see what you guys are seeing as so impressive?? it even seems the slo mo's are to hide how slow he's actually going!!
If this was in england with a guy doing it you would all be reacting in a completely different manor. Go on youtube and search streeto and you will find a hell of a lot better videos regarding car control.
Exactly this. Plus one Not impressed. I had a 2.5 Mondeo Estate for a short while. Came with Pirelli P4's on the front and a wornish set of 'Slide & Glides on the back. Any wet surface (and a couple of bags of sand at the tailgate) and you could hang the tail out no bother - didn't even need the handbrake. Used to take it to autumn/spring track days just for the laugh.
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Debaser
1,191 posts
131 months
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Everyone is hailing this guy as a driving god, yet when Ken Block does something a lot more impressive, he gets slated.
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