I love this car!

I somehow doubt that this car was stock.

Thats one cool drift, but you also need to have a good driver who knows steering/throttle control when drifting.

i wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t

It would have been cooler if they had actually used the Speedway instead of the parking lot. But then it would be harder to drift on a banked curve, and I don’t think the curves are quite a mile long.

As far as stock, I think it was stock. I’ve drifted quite a bit in my old ‘76 280Z, and in my mom’s old ‘97 Trans-Am. This car has a lot more power than both the Z and the TA did.

Don’t you just need some really bald tires?

That’s cool. Who’d have thought that an American car would hold the world record for longest drift.

I think we would have heard more than just the tires if it were tuned.

OLD NEW…
Vaughn Gittin Jr. is one of the best, what did you expect?…

Congratulations Ford???

As economy drifts into $hithole we are finding great news to inspire us.

That’s no where near the drift record. It was done in a scooby in 2001 and went on for over 2 hours. It only ended cos the car ran out of fuel.

^-Wow, what a dumb ass. Show me a tire that can withstand two hours of burnout.

Mach! Exactly. I can’t even get my track tires to keep from getting greasy after 20-30 minutes of hard driving.

Its amazing how many idiots there are on this site.

Who said it was on a track. Read the link and you’ll see. Jeez louise.

Scoobynet’s Simon de Banke recently set the Guiness World Distance Record for Driving Sideways. What the attempt required was for a car to be in a constant skew in a drift around a circle track for a duration of time without stopping or straightening out.
Simon de Banke set the record at a lofty 2 hours, 11 minutes, and 18 seconds.

Yea. Show us the link. That scooby attempt is already suspect. You said it was a on a circle track and aren’t those scooby’s AWD too??? I can’t imagine ANY tire putting up with that.

LINK PLEASE.

where is the damn link Pumazooma?????

louise who?

Woot woot Ford dominates.

I googled…and…no such link as Scoobynet’s Simon de Banke set the record at a lofty 2 hours…….so…it’s really fishy.

Ordinarily I wouldn’t get that excited about something going sideways but when the entire industry is going backwards at least it’s a start.

I can see it now, 101 rebuttal videos from every Evo Skyline RX7 drifter making the longest rip evar!!

The tire companies now have an official new torture test device.

this is dumb

I’d keep this outdated piece of crap hidden in smoke to if I was Ford! This is the nearest American car yet to a Jap Appilance.

Can’t we all just get along….NO.

So Pumazooma is so full crap he can’t see straight. Second I highly agree with Fordman here, what idiot at Ford is gonna use this as good publicity..I can see it now,

” Ford Employee Pricing Plus Plus Plus Plus Plus Plus…..buy a new Ford Mustang for free because hey, all your money will go towards tires and rear axles”

I saw the other video on youtube this thing is supercharged to 500+ horses and has a tuned suspension.

WTF news is this???
Prove what??? Americans can corner now??? Make the biggest donuts???
This is sooooooooooo stupid!!!
5min going round and round….and round…
I’ll do it better…lock the steer and put a brick on the gas pedal and would go for a coffee… when the tire blow i would win

THIS IS AMERICAN PURE STUPIDITY

The car looks ugly imo(The interior is alright though) prefer the Challenger over this

OMG , this is the most important record in automotive history ! I’m glad you Americans have fun with the whole drifting thing

Yawn

American pure stupidity? Americans having fun with the whole drifting thing??

I may be out of touch, I consider traction an asset in a car, not a liability, but isn’t drifting an Asian thing anyway? I mean, that silly F&F sequel wasn’t called “Albuquerque Drift”…

A couple of things. No fan of drifting and don’t really care. That said it does show two things, an American manufacturer can compete. Secondly that Ford is actually doing some pretty cool marketing to small niche markets. I am pretty sure this car is not the GT500 motor, watched a couple of times and I can’t hear any supercharger and I am certain throttle control and suspension are the big keys. Either way, stock or not (I am sure the Guiness record wasn’t stock) it is impressive.

Car_Fanatic how the hell can you get 500 horses with a supercharger?

Tyler, the Corvette ZR1 has 600, & the Shelby ‘Stang has 540, both supercharged. Why don’t you ask them?

If Ford wants to improve real-world usable traction they have to reduce rear-axle hop. So that the Mustang can compete all the other fronts (besides motor) with the real-deal front-engine RWD sports coupes.

Here’s a novel idea – an Independent Rear Suspension. Even the Hyundai Genesis coupe gets one.

……………………… still waiting on Puma’s link……………………………….

Drifting Is So Damn Silly, I Had A 75 Pinto That Could Drift All Day Long With A Stock 88 Hp 4 What Is The Big Deal ?

-Sarge

hahahahah….. I drift in my ‘90 Jeep Comanche……. it’s funny as all hell!!!!

He mentions in the video that they put special drift tires on it, I imagine they tweaked the suspension a bit, too. In the end, big friggin deal. Let’s see him do it around an actual track instead of one continuous circle.

I think it has more to do with the driver than anything.

……………………… still waiting on Puma’s link………………………………. X2

I just posted it but obviously it isn’t showing for some reason.

In fact I just found the record in my 2003 Guinness Book of Records!

lets try it this way

www [dot] topgear [dot] com [slash] content [slash] features [slash] stories [slash] 2007 [slash] 03 [slash] stories [slash] 17 [slash] 1 [dot] html

I don’t get why you can’t just copy and paste the link, Puma.

I don’t care what you guys think, this is awesome. The new Mustang is awesome. It looks sharp and sinister…plus, it does 0-60 in 5 secs (or even less). Challenger R/Ts can’t do that…too heavy.

Why would anyone doubt this car is not stock? I have a ‘96 Cobra and it’s easy enough to drift endlessly in the car. Of course there is no supercharger, you can hear no whine whatsoever.

Pumazooma’s an idiot.

Speeeed3Z- All your money will go to tires? Huh? This is not some promotion for Ford or the Mustang. Vaughn is just doing his thing.

This is not American stupidity. This has nothing to do with Ford. Vaughn Gittin Jr. drifts with the current Mustang, so obviously he singed with Ford again and will be drifting this season with the ‘10 Mustang. This was just Gittin Jr. doing a special with 0-60 Magazine, nothing more.

Dante…..true statement!

That is all.

ninteysixvert
-If only Colin McRae were still alive, he would show us how to truly drive, oh such a great WRC driver.

So stupid…

well, what should i say… good for mr. gittin jr. … hope he didnt get seasick, though

This really is the most pointless debate in LeftLaneNews history…..why don’t we just argue if the background to the home page is carbon fiber or perforated leather!?!?

Perforated leather gets my vote!

+1 Perforated leather.

===>> +2 Perforated leater, reinforced by carbon fiber!

God bless the USA!

Perforated leather.