The second car in our series of reviews for the “best cars for drifting in GT5P” is the 2002 Viper GTS.

As a kid growing up I had always been a huge fan of the Viper – however I lost some interest in the car as I grew a bit older and got into Japanese and European cars. Well, after getting a ride in an SRT10 from a professional race car driver, it got my attention once again.

After going for the ride, I decided to try out the car for drifting in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. At first, I tried drifting with the SRT10, but later got into the seat of the 2002 Viper GTS – a much more raw and vulgar vehicle.

With a bit of practicing, I actually found the car quite fun to drift. After I played with the settings a little bit, I found it to be one of my favourite cars for drifting in the game. Not a huge surprise since they actually use Viper’s in competition.

These are the settings I enjoy using:

Power 550 hp
Weight 1333 kg
Tires N1/N1
Ride Height -27/-22
Spring Rate 5/5
Damper 5/5
Toe Out/In 0/0 (again, still haven’t messed with this)
Camber 1.5/0.5

And of course, a video of me drifting on the High Speed Ring (reverse) to go along with it.

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Gotta love HD video. Can’t wait until the day that all uploaded video is high def.

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Just thought I’d share some photos of a Sileighty (180sx with a Silvia front end) I owned briefly last summer.

Although I didn’t get a chance to track it (or modify it to my own taste), it was a blast to drive. The current owner is working on an impressive build, which can be found here (membership required).

And here’s what the car looks like now:

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An awesome trailer for the upcoming DVD featuring Australia’s most extreme drifters.

Gotta love the Homer Simpson passenger doll (near beginning of the video).

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This video is truly awesome. I’m such a sucker for drift videos with great music and great cinematography.

In case you’re wondering, the song is “Innerpartysystem – Don’t stop”

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In order to kill sometime while we wait for GT5, let’s examine some of the best cars for drifting in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. This will be part one in a series of reviews. All driving performed on a PS3 using the Logitech G25 as my steering wheel of choice, with all driver aids off, all settings on professional.

To kick this off, we’ll start with my current favourite:

Ferrari 512BB

Produced from 1973 until 1984, the 512BB was certainly not built as a drift car. That being said, it’s actually very enjoyable to drift. Below are the settings I usually use when drifting the 512BB, although it can change slightly depending on the track.

Power 415 hp
Weight 1190 kg
Tires N1/N1
Ride Height -25/-20
Spring Rate 6/6
Damper 5/5
Toe Out/In 0/0 (I’m still kind of new to playing with Toe in/out)
Camber 2.5/1.5 (sometimes I change it to 1.5/0.5 – still haven’t mastered camber)

Everything else is stock – sometimes I’ll increase the steering angle to about 45 (which should make it better for drifting), however I usually find it messes me up.

Here’s a video of me driving the 512BB on the Suzuka D1GP course (for a competition on GTPlanet).

My apologies for the terrible video capture, but really, it’s not THAT bad.

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I just love the contrast of the green on black, along with the fitment and general aesthetic of the car. One of my favourite looking S14a’s for sure.

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Pretty hilarious.

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Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if more sports cars from the 90’s were made rear wheel drive. Drifting would probably be a lot easier to get into, that’s for sure (more cars, more parts, etc.).

Not sure why the images are a bit squashed – still getting a hang of this whole “blogging” thing.

Integra Type-R (DC2)

Honda Prelude – looks very similar to an S14 from certain angles…but it’s just missing something. *cough* rear wheel drive

Chevrolet Cobalt (although I hate this car all together, if it was rear wheel drive it would only suck half as much)

Toyota Celica – what happened to at least the AWD version?

Subaru 2.5RS (GC8) – would have been nice to have the option to go RWD from the factory.

What cars do you wish they made (or are making) with rear wheel drive?

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One of my favourite drifting videos. Great cinematography, great cars, great driving. Oh, and they get airborne.

JDM Allstars – Wembley 2009 – The Drift Festival from JDM Allstars on Vimeo.

The biggest, loudest closest drift event in Europe returns on exceptional form with one of the best show-drift tracks designed. With 70mph entries, huge sweeping corners, jumps (yes – jumps), and walls to scrape – this was always going to be a lot of fun.

In the end, it turned into one of the best top 32’s ever seen, and the standard of driving was gobsmacking. The event was comparable in atmosphere and skill to the RedBull world championship finals with Formula D last year – a testament to how hard JDM have worked on this event, and also how much the skill level has improved yet again within Europe.

Final results were:
1- Dan Chapman (PS13 – Driftworks / Touge Heroes)
2- Paul Vasblom (BMW E36 M3 Touring – DriftKing.nl)
3- Remmo Neizen (BMW E30 M3 (M5 V8) – Falken Tyres)
4- Pete Barber (RX-7 – Hayward Rotary)
5- Martin Ffrench (RX-7 – Dragon Performance / Touge Heroes)

Music – Al Clark & Jaguar Skills
Edited by Al on Final Cut Express (ftw).
Additional camera op: Josh Allen
Presented by JDM Allstars.

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