This question was asked by a friend of mine who loves drifting, but wants to know if the GS430 is sufficient enough. My question for him was, why do you want to drift a luxury sedan? It seems a little illogical. Anyways, i just want some input on this. Sorry to waste everyones time.

1) Can you drift a Lexus GS430 and would you?

 

You are right...its a stupid question.

 

I think it will be very easy to drift in GS!!... the way it's handling corner in stock suspension...

 

I think it'll require a healthy dose of ice, and a load of electros-be-gone.
I wouldnt drift it, it be like stuffing a pig in a swimsuit, it just ain't pretty.

 

I like the way you put it. It's a luxury car, not a cheap toy. However, my friend did show me a video of a guy doing drifts and donuts in his 92 SC400. But that just made me want to confiscate the car from him because no Lexus deserves to be treated so harshly.

 

Okay, here's the even dumber question. I know what donuts are, but what is drifting?

 

Your buddy probably watched the episode of Test Drive with Tommy Kendall and Danny Sullivan driving 450h cars around the track and drifting slightly thru the corners

 

Those commercials where you see cars going around a corner sideways, that's drifting.... what they don't show is the car eventually wrapping around a tree or light pole...

 

I don't think you can drift a GS. All of the traction control and stuff can be turned off manually but they will switch right on. There was an Autoweek article a while back comparing it to the M45 and that was the main gripe about the car.

 

If you press and hold it for more then 10 second... It turns off permanantly!

 

It's easier to drift the older cars because they didn't have VDIM, TCS and all the other electronic controls that the newer cars have.

It *is* possible to disable VDIM, etc though so I guess you could possibly do it. If you look in the tips/tricks sticky thread, there is a sequence (I think pressing the brake pedal a certain number of times and some other stuff) to turn off VDIM. If I recall correctly, it was intended to allow the engineers to dyno the car

 

I think that now-a-days, computers do way too much. its safer, but when something goes wrong its much more difficult to repair.

 

Now is this for all GS's or just the 06' and up model?