NEWS>> NEW SCION DRIFTING TEAM FOR 2009!

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scionrs3 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:37:15 GMT

I heard a rumor from reliable sources that the Houst tC will be powered by a 800hp 5.7L v8 (AKA NASCAR Motor)

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Section09 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:56:02 GMT

Oh man I wasn't complaining about you guys! I know Orido is a hardass like always but my rant was more about just these Scions. They just rub me the wrong way.

You guys just keep doin' what you do, you're great at it.

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ridgezero — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:10:08 GMT

14x8.5 RS Watanabes crushed nooooooooooooooooo!

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dukeofny — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:47:58 GMT

wow that sucks

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Antonio Alvendia — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:29:23 GMT

yeah!! hyundai! actually i heard a pretty well known team will be debuting a hyundai for next year. i wonder if they will be sponsored by hankook or kumho? hehehe

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Antonio Alvendia — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:16:34 GMT

Section09: well, we wanted to do a car feature on orido's GS, but he wasnt too cooperative with us when we were trying to shoot it. you should complain to him. but he'll make you wait in a line before you can tell him yourself.

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Steph — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:23:06 GMT

I'd rather see hyundai's new rwd model in the mix and how it holds up. Anyone with me?

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byron h — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:16:49 GMT

“Maybe we just need to introduce a FF drifting series to keep all these manufactures of mild performance vehicles satisfied.”

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Section09 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:03:12 GMT

This is the gheyest thing in the world.

Man I gotta tell you, I friggin' hate scion Tc. Scion is always pushing their cars so hard to the 'youth' market with all this ricey garbage. They are the new ricers. I remember hondas used to be the ricer kings. Now hondas are just awesome and these Tc's took that title. Whats up with these Tc's in Formula D? The RS*R one was interesting but I still thought it sucked at life. Lots of great work done on it but its still a Scion Tc. Now these rockstar car? Arghh, someone stop this madness please! How can these guys be allowed to run these cars with all these parts from other cars when Takatori got all this heat for doing the same thing in his GTR?

Papadakis? No disrespect but this guy doesn't seem very good at drifting. That poor AEM S2000 got trashed so many times when he drove for them. Not that I could do any better but how does this guy get to drive for any pro drift team knowing that he's wreck prone? Well all for the best, do us all a favor and crash those damn Tc's.

Arggghhh! Bring D1 back to the states! Enough of this Fomula Doh! Seriously american drifting is so bad. I mean we get a damn ARISTO driven by GT driver Orido and most people dont get how big that is. Meanwhile a Scion Tc gets more news? FAIL

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Brian Harte — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:58:18 GMT

Dave SS special copy edition EF.

haha

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DiscoQuinn — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:03:54 GMT

Formula D should put a rule on factory supported teams, if your converting the car to RWD, you better offer it to the public.

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Antonio Alvendia — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:17:11 GMT

Brian: yeah, you're talking about Hatakeyama. but he was weak, and Falken crushed his famous EF. The EF looked the best when it was camouflage, so fresh... even with the black paint/RS Watanabe logos it looked dope, until it got painted all corporate style. So sad that the awesome 14x8.5 RS Watanabe Rs got crushed with the car... I wanted soo bad to just swap them out with Rewinds real quick, nobody from the state would know the difference...

Naga_ten: Sorry man, no espeaka spanish. wakarimasen.

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I Love BH — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:18:23 GMT

You make my day a bit brighter.

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Sgtrubberducky — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:24:55 GMT

Gushi shouldve just stuck with the Mustang... The tc looked horrid and clunky. obviously couldnt run either...

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Sam — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:59:03 GMT

A RSX FR = NICE!

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Naga_Ten — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:09:16 GMT

Antonio, que tu estas loco, hombre?!

Drifting RSX's and Integras???

Man, I'm all up for never-before-seen stuff, and I'm okay with 4WD cars being used in drift even though I find them a ~little~ unorthodox, but that's waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too unorthodox for me...

@Jaggorri:

That would be a good example of an unorthodox drift car, but it's legality is easily explained:

Scion is a subsidiary of Toyota, and the Scion TC model share its chassis with a few Toyota's including the 4WD Toyota Caldina (which is also the current holder of the legendary Toyota GT-Four title...).

Formula D (and most other pro drifting comps) allow for FR cars (obviously) and 4WD cars converted to FR as long as the 4WD is present in a factory model chassis

Since the chassis they use on the TC is the same as the Caldina's, it makes the car's convertion competition-legal. (I still think it's friggin' unorthodox, but hell with it.)

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Jaggorri — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:25:29 GMT

Um. Okay. Scion is pouring a whole bunch of money into promoting a version of the Scion TC that doesn't exist for the end customer. Remind me again why this car isn't illegal under Formula D rules?

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Brian Harte — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:51:41 GMT

Why did the comments get all out of order?

What the heck???

Maybe they should keep it Front Wheel Drive and have hatekayama drive it.... or whatever his name was. I forgot.

ANTONIO?????????????? I bet you know who I am talking about.

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Antonio Alvendia — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:06:56 GMT

LOLLLL tight!

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allmotorking — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:38:44 GMT

i'm hoping that they can figure out a way to stop breaking the axles on the tC.