(#14) Mazda Miata
No. All right? Just... No.
Full disclosure: If the price ceiling for this list hadn't already and arbitrarily been set at $5,000, it would have been bumped up to $15,000 just to include the Honda S2000. But what's done is done, and the single greatest Japanese roadster of all time is just too expensive for this list. Instead, cruel fate forces me to recommend the S2000K's slightly less butch cousin. To be fair, the Mazda Miata is a truly amazing driver's car, and rightly deserves its place on any list of the same. It's designed from the ground up for exactly the kind of stuff drifters love, and there's no question that the Miata can be built into a fearsome drift car. Cheap.
True, the Miata doesn't have a lot of power stock, but remedies abound for that. There's no reason a Miata can't throw up massive, eye-watering billows of dense tire smoke with the right tuning - or LS motor swap. Which is a good thing, since it's going to take a lot of tire smoke to hide the fact that you're still driving a f***ing Miata.(#3) Nissan 240SX
Oh, don't pretend you didn't see this one coming.
(#12) Ford Crown Victoria
Make no mistake: The Crown Vic is absolute crap as a drift car. Oh, sure, you can make it behave on a drift course if you try hard enough and throw enough money at it. But you can try to make an elephant tap-dance, too. Doesn't mean it's a good idea.
However, what the Crown Vic lacks in agility, precision and most other things that make drift cars work, it makes up for with rear drive, big, stupid Mustang power and being utterly dirt cheap. Ford produced millions of these things for police forces and cab companies, and you can find these usually well-maintained cars for practically nothing at auctions.
If all you're interested in doing is spending nothing, billowing tire smoke, doing ridiculous powerslides and grinning like an idiot...then a Crown Vic might just be the tap-dancing elephant for you.(#11) 1991 to 2000 Lexus SC
It's no great secret the 2JZ Toyota Supras are expensive and hard to come by these days; but how would you feel about a sweet luxury upgrade and Supra performance for way less money? The SC was Lexus' upmarket take on the Supra, complete with every luxury gadget you can think of and a couple of great engines.
No, the American version never came with the Supra's twin-turbo 2JZ-GTE, but it did get a non-turbo version of that engine which can be upgraded to Supra spec. Or, you can get a 4,0-liter V-8 for rumble and smoke together. In truth, though, the six-cylinder is probably better, if only because upgrade parts and turbo kits are so much cheaper and easier to come by.
Best of all, you can find SCs in decent condition for reasonable money: usually a good deal less than the far more collectible Supra, especially if you want one that hasn't been modded and thrashed to death. Care for a bit of tea with your powerslide, sir?(#10) 1989 to 2000 Infiniti Q45
As the makers of the Silvia, you'd imagine Nissan knows a thing or two about rear-drive performance. The Infiniti Q45 produced by Nissan might not be the first car you'd think of to take drifting, but that's exactly what makes it perfect. The car actually got its name from the "Q-Ship," a term for a sleeper high-performance automobile; which itself refers to the Q-Ships used in WWII, fully armed battleships disguised as harmless transport vessels. A perfect description of the Q45, if ever there was one.
With all the aftermarket support in the universe, it's entirely possible to turn a Q45 into a fully armed, tire-smoking drift car that looks like little more than a transport for executive passengers. "Q-Ship," indeed.
(#4) GM G-Body Cars
You'll probably recognize this platform best as the one underpinning millions of Monte Carlos, El Caminos, Buick Regals and Buick Grand Nationals produced from 1978 to 1988. Olds and Pontiac had G-Bodies, too. But nobody cares about them. The funny thing about G-Body cars is that if you ask most kids who grew up in the '90s and 2000s, they seem like big cars. But they're not, really.
A G-Body Regal coupe has about the same wheelbase as an E36 BMW 3-Series, it's narrower than a 3-Series, and at 3,250 pounds weigh barely as much as a new Honda Civic. Only the comparatively long front and rear overhangs make it look big. But in between lays a chassis that's just as capable of drifting and road racing as anything GM produced in the 21th century.
Upgrade parts are cheap and plenty, the engine bay will take anything from a 500 c.i. Cadillac to a Turbo-Six Buick, and you can find G-bodies for next to nothing all over the place. Especially if you get one of those Olds or Pontiac cars.
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