TOUGE

DriftYo! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiYqY2MNM54&feature=related Zipties for the win! word!!

Whatever happened to the days of 'keeping it on the down low?'

haha yeah, right

Needs more zip ties!

That was funny when I saw that. Everyone thinks that the american JDMDriftbois started that

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Why do I get a kick when they whip out the zipties to fix the fender?

haha nice Apex

because it's awesome! I got a laugh when he just pushed in the bumper and yanked the zip tie tight lol

Nucking Futz.

Zipties hold rally cars together...

Anyway, from what I understand, touge is NOT drifting. I am participating in a season long touge event held at the local track. You start half-way around the track from your opponent, and you "chase" them down. 3 laps total I believe, using transponders. The different forms they show in Japan usually involve cars starting XX amount of meters between them and racing down a mountain road.

I know this ain't Touge, I just thought to put it as the title since the video is called touge drift, to just generalize it I guess I love Touge, was addicted ever since I saw Initial D and Hot Version dvd's. It's just a shame it went down the same path as JDM, as with being a name nowadays.

I wonder who pays to replace the guard rail?

holy crap those roads are narrow. i'd have to wear a diaper to be a passenger in that video!

You guys are a little off on what the word 'touge' means.

The literal translation is "the pass," which refers to the mountain passes that are used to travel between population centers.

Essentially, touge racing means racing in the mountains, touge drifting is drifting in the mountains, touge driving is driving in the mountains.

"Touge" events are events at race tracks inspired by the 'cat and mouse' style of mountain racing where the objective is to decrease the gap to the person in front of you. This is because passing in the mountains is too dangerous for most people. A touge event at a racetrack is usually one where amateur drivers can race without having to drive wheel-to-wheel.

Spirited driving on a mountain road isn't limited to Japan, either :P

The thing is that the cars in that video are crappy, beat up, and the drivers know that they are going to wreck them again and again, so why spend big money on new body panels.

And of course the problem now is that people are using zip-ties as a fashion statement for their cars. I was at a rinky-dink drift event last month and one guy used 2 tiny zips to keep his rear bumper on, and at the slightest bump, even though he was going slow and not drifting well, the bumper came off and everybody thought it was amazing.

If you're scripting your body pieces falling off, something is seriously wrong with your motorsport.

It won't buy you a cup of coffee, but there's my .02 anyways.

Sorry, but that's gnarly. That stuff is what got me fascinated about drifting in the late 90's, when there was barely anything on the web about it--a few japanese sites and that was about it.

Some ripping driving there--hate notwithstanding.

exactly ^

just underground and grassroots, late night on the touge, end of story. haters gonna hate

Initial D got me hooked when I was younger

NickF40 wrote: just underground and grassroots, late night on the touge, end of story. haters gonna hate

No, haters gonna hate the poseurs... and rightfully so.