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This featured Car is Carrera GT

Carrera is a slot car.

This featured Car is Carrera

Carrera dominated the German markets in the 1960s and 1970s, due to using an additional third wire, and effective marketing, also at the nearby Nuremberg International Toy Fair.

This featured Car is Carrera

In the 1970, Carrera offered 1:24, 1:32 and 1:60 scales for slot cars, and the slot-free "Servo" systems which allowed cars to switch lanes, guided by the guard rails on the outside. Due to the many systems offered, and fewer customers (Generation), Neuhierl had to sell his company in 1985, and took his own life. The new owners sold rather cheap products.

This featured Car is ABT

Johann Abt (born December 1935), who continued a horseshoeing tradition of his family with motor cars, was a motorcycling and hillclimbing racer for Abarth factory team until 1970. He later entered cars with his own team, winning the "Trophée de l’Avenir“ and other series.

This featured Car is Koenigsegg CCR

The Koenigsegg CCR is a mid-engined sports car manufactured by Koenigsegg. It briefly held the world speed record for a production car and is currently the fourth fastest production car in the world, behind the Bugatti Veyron, SSC Ultimate Aero and the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.

Tuesday 6 September 2011

Honda Drift Cars


Famous for their V-TEC system, you don’t see the Honda S2000 all that often in drifting, but with money for some modifications it can be turned into a great drift car.
It’s one of the very few Honda drift cars and has a perfect 50:50 weight distribution, so it drives very neutral. For racing this is wonderful, but for drifting you wouldn’t mind having a little oversteer.
Something worthwhile mentioning is that the strength of the S2000’s chassis is super strong. Depending on your driving style this is, or isn’t a good thing. It takes a better driver to cope with such a stiff chassis, because a chassis that flexes more is also more forgiving.

Besides, it’s very common to put a rollcage in your drift car as a safety precaution, and that would make the car even stiffer. This can make the S2000 quite a handful to drift with. But the S2000 comes with another problem. It comes with an electronic power steering system called EPS. This can make drifting the S2000 near impossible. Fortunately it’s possible to fix this by changing it with a normal hydraulic power steering system.
To change the neutral character to a more oversteering character, it is recommended to upgrade the suspension. The rear-end, like for example the control arms and axles, is known to be pretty weak and recommended to upgrade as well.
There is a lot of tuning potential but the NA engine has its limits of course. In stock form it delivers 240hp and gets up to about 300-350hp, but bear in mind that it’s a lightweight car and can get a lot lighter with the help of some carbon.
If the S2000 is tuned right, like for example the S2000 from Amuse pictured above, it can be a real monster on the track. But for drifting I’ll think twice before getting a S2000. Unless you really want to use the S2000 for drifting you’d be better off considering another car.
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