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BMW’s Drift Mob Is Nothing Compared to this Twelve Car Tandem Drift
BMW’s Drift Mob Is Nothing Compared to this Twelve Car Tandem Drift

18 Sep 2014, 14:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW launched a rather interesting video a while back, featuring five of the best drivers in the world, drifting five M235is in tandem. They called it the ‘Drift Mob’ and we were all impr...

 
Gymkhana with a Tractor: Volvo-Powered Traktor Terror Goes Drifting
Gymkhana with a Tractor: Volvo-Powered Traktor Terror Goes Drifting

9 Sep 2014, 09:47 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Although Gymkhana started in the 19th century with horse riding skills over a predefined course, no one really knows how it switched to motorsport. Some say it started after WWII when American soldi...

 
Check Out BMW's Smokey Burnout Function in Action
Check Out BMW's Smokey Burnout Function in Action

2 Sep 2014, 16:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The fact that M3s are being used as smoke machines around the world doesn’t surprise anyone anymore. Rear-wheel drive and 400 HP are a match made in heaven for those looking to burn some rubbe...

 
Pro Drifter Chris Forsberg Gets Tasered Behind the Wheel
Pro Drifter Chris Forsberg Gets Tasered Behind the Wheel

22 Aug 2014, 13:04 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Drifting requires a big amount of brain effort to be able to make the car harmoniously slide around the track. Still, do this for more than a couple of years and you might be able to perform such ma...

 
Killing a Toyota Hilux, the Arabian Style
Killing a Toyota Hilux, the Arabian Style

21 Aug 2014, 16:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You know Arabs love to do all kind of crazy things in cheap but reliable cars - from rolling on two wheels and drifting at high speeds on the highway to fast J-turns and killing tires on the tarmac....

 
Initiating the BMW M4 into the World took 52 Cars and One Drift
Initiating the BMW M4 into the World took 52 Cars and One Drift

21 Aug 2014, 14:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW decided to ‘initiate’ the new M4 instead of launching it in the States. In order to do so, they started calling some of the members of the biggest forums around, including the BMW Ca...

 
Reckless M3 Driver Shows Us Why BMW Owners Have Such a Bad Rep
Reckless M3 Driver Shows Us Why BMW Owners Have Such a Bad Rep

13 Aug 2014, 14:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Earlier today, an Instagram user posted a video of a 700 HP Supercharged M3 doing some ad-hoc drifting in a suburban intersection. So what? you’d be tempted to say. Well, that’s why all ...

 
Chris Harris Uses a BMW M235i to Teach People How to Drift
Chris Harris Uses a BMW M235i to Teach People How to Drift

31 Jul 2014, 14:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / We’ve grown so used to Chris Harris’ videos that we simply know that he’s going to drift the car he’s reviewing even before we start watching. It’s some sort of tradema...

 
Toyota GT 86 Steals BMW’s Drift Record in Turkey
Toyota GT 86 Steals BMW’s Drift Record in Turkey

31 Jul 2014, 08:43 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Last year, a 1,000 hp Toyota GT 86 broke the record for the fastest drift, with Jakub Prygonski sliding the car at 159 mph (256 km/h). Now, another entry level coupe makes it in the news by performi...

 
Who Knew the BMW M4 Can Do Magic Tricks?
Who Knew the BMW M4 Can Do Magic Tricks?

30 Jul 2014, 12:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It seems like there’s little the new M4 can’t do these days. After drifting on top of an aircraft carrier and showing us what real handling means, BMW posted yet another video of the new...

 
The Epic BMW M235i Driftmob Is Finally Here
The Epic BMW M235i Driftmob Is Finally Here

30 Jul 2014, 07:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Remember the preview we showed you a while back of five BMW M235i cars drifting synchronously in a roundabout? Well, the final video is here and it’s absolutely awesome, as we expected it woul...

 
Good Guy Nissan 240SX Driver Rescuing Crashed Rat Rod Rival
Good Guy Nissan 240SX Driver Rescuing Crashed Rat Rod Rival

30 May 2014, 16:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It’s nice to see people still believing in sportsmanship and not going full NFS-style on the racetrack, whatever the stakes are. And in case you thought the spirit got extinct, here’s a ...

 
BMW M3 and M4 Get in a Drift Off in Moscow
BMW M3 and M4 Get in a Drift Off in Moscow

29 May 2014, 15:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Despite all their problems with the international community and the ever increasing tensions on the border with Ukraine, Russians still know how to have fun. The M Festival organized by BMW wasn&rsq...

 
You Don't Need Hills Anymore With The Gas-powered Tortuga Drift Trike
You Don't Need Hills Anymore With The Gas-powered Tortuga Drift Trike

27 May 2014, 15:51 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / We all enjoy a proper drifting-time spent with our four-wheeler, that is a fact. But what would you do if we’d tell you can do the same thing, only with a lot more adrenalin running in you vei...

 
Mercedes-Benz E 500 Driver Trying to Tafheet in Russia <span>· Video</span>
Mercedes-Benz E 500 Driver Trying to Tafheet in Russia · Video

6 May 2014, 12:08 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Despite the fact that it seems to have been filmed with some kind of potato, the following video shows plenty of details that could very well be characterized as moronic and highly-illegal. In sh...

 
Watch a 360 Spin Performed Mid Drift
Watch a 360 Spin Performed Mid Drift

29 Apr 2014, 14:05 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Steering using the throttle isn’t exactly the simplest maneuver in the world. Even when tons of practice turn the slip angle balance into a second nature status, you’re always one split ...

 
Scion Pro Drifters Tearing Up a Parking Lot at Lake Tahoe
Scion Pro Drifters Tearing Up a Parking Lot at Lake Tahoe

28 Apr 2014, 14:29 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Blox Racing, Beatznpieces and 247media recently hold an awesome Scion event at Lake Tahoe, bringing together dozens of Scion FR-S fans, their rides and two professional drifters to black out the tar...

 
Overpowered V8 Toyota AE 86 Can’t Go Straight
Overpowered V8 Toyota AE 86 Can’t Go Straight

15 Apr 2014, 12:39 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Remember Driftworks’ orange V8 powered Toyota AE 86 we showed you last month? In case you don’t, all you need to know is that the drift team decided to build an extraordinary hachi-roku ...

 
Ken Gushi Drifting the Bejesus Out of Some Geeks in a Scion FR-S
Ken Gushi Drifting the Bejesus Out of Some Geeks in a Scion FR-S

14 Apr 2014, 15:52 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Thought the Scion FR-S/Toyota GT 86 is a boring car just because it only has a 200 hp engine? Why don’t you take a look at what a professional drifter can do with it giving some gaming enthusi...

 
Local Motors Verrado Electric Drift Trike Goes into Production
Local Motors Verrado Electric Drift Trike Goes into Production

10 Apr 2014, 15:09 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Trike drifting is possibly one of the “x-sports” with the very fastest growth in the US, and it looks like it’s also spreading across the pond. Arizona-based transportation design ...