What's The Better Drift Car: A Ford Focus RS Or A Modified Toyota GT86?

The Toyota you see in this video here is no ordinary GT86, and not just for its Initial D-inspired livery. It’s been given adaptive dampers that allow you to run a soft setup at the front while keeping things firm at the back, making it more prone to oversteer. So essentially, it has a drift mode.

Autocar was keen to find out exactly how it compared to the most famous of drift modes - the one found on the Ford Focus RS. The Focus used isn’t standard either, as it’s running a Mountune power pack, which should make it even better for sideways tomfoolery.

In the end however, there isn’t really a clear winner: the GT86 is deemed too underpowered for easy drift heroics, while the Ford’s synthetic oversteer moments are - while fun - deemed not to qualify as true drifting.

The solution? A turbo or supercharger on the GT86 would do nicely…