The Stupid Question For Today
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The Stupid Question For Today
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?
1) Can you drift a Lexus GS430 and would you?
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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.
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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.
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If you press and hold it for more then 10 second... It turns off permanantly! 
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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
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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
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
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