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Video: Tanner Foust Drifts Mulholland Drive In 600-HP NASCAR-Powered Scion

 
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Tanner Foust drifts Mullholland Drive in Scion tC

HI-RES GALLERY: Tanner Foust drifts Mullholland Drive in Scion tC

Mulholland Drive is a legendary strip of blacktop in Los Angeles that every native gearhead and many visiting interlopers know, love, and occasionally, fear. But few have attacked it the way Tanner Foust does in this video, taking to the section known as "The Snake" with his Rockstar Scion tC drift car.

The car isn't a true Scion tC--it's been converted to rear-wheel drive, had a 600-horsepower V-8 Toyota NASCAR engine shoehorned into it, and fitted with a pro transmission and drift-style handbrake to make the sideways bits easier to engage--if not to maintain.

Foust shows off some serious driving skill in this clip, particularly at 2:54-2:56, where he comes within a hand's width of an unforgiving guardrail, and again at 3:13-3:18, where he executes a long, 180-degree drift so geometrically perfect Euclid himself would be proud.

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  1. By R2Dad Posted: 3/17/2010 2:43pm PDT

    Maybe Toyota didn't get the memo. Race on Sunday, Sell on Monday requires a stock vehicle similar to the track version. This just begs for 16 year-olds to drive irresponsibly. Don't get me wrong--I'd love to see a TRD Scion tC in the showroom just like this one. But if their FWD model was so great they wouldn't have to swap drive ends, now, would they? I suppose this is preferable to a Lexus SC re-badged as a Scion, just for the purposes of drifting.
     
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  2. By Rice1 Posted: 3/18/2010 1:36am PDT

    Has this drifting stuff died down yet? What a waste of good rubber. Yes, it takes a lot of skill to drift, but it actually makes you go slower. I'd rather watch drivers race around a circuit like grand-am.
     
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  3. By TnTPhilly Posted: 3/18/2010 1:41pm PDT

    Maybe not with a true TC, but I bet something similar will be possible with the new Toyota RWD FT-86 concept. Damn, this guy can drive...
     
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