What's cooler than driving sideways? Driving sideways in a limousine! Thing is, as these guys found out, it's not as easy as you might think. Even on a water-soaked skid-pad, that stretched wheelbase is hard to balance with opposite lock. Points for effort, though we would've like to have seen a "Just Married" sign and some tin cans being dragged along off the back.
[sportbilen.se, h/t to Bo!]
Drifting A Limo Ain't Easy
12:40 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Mark Arnold
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What's cooler than driving sideways? Driving sideways in a limousine! Thing is, as these guys found out, it's not as easy as you might think. Even on a water-soaked skid-pad, that stretched wheelbase is hard to balance with opposite lock. Points for effort, though we would've like to have seen a "Just Married" sign and some tin cans being dragged along off the back.



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I bet drifting a school bus isn't a cake walk either.
foreigners are scary
The coolness of this video could've been cubed by the addition of fire, hang time, or longhorns as a hood ornament.
Sorry Swedes...Iceland's still got my vote for best Scandinavian Hoonocracy.
(I just added Hoonocracy to Firefox's dictionary)
What, no hookers in the back? Bummer.
But that's some first-class, VIP hoonage right there!
Gotta give him points for the 360 spins. Liked that they grounded it while reversing into the warehouse.
Another thing I like about Sweden added to the list.
Wedding Singer 2 is filming already???
Rollin'..in my 8.3
Got ho's floppin all over me!
Got my meatball driver at the wheel
Stompin the pedal makes the wheels squeal!
That's what you get for closing the privacy screen.
Not bad. Unfortunately, I'm spoiled, having seen clips of Secret Service trainees performing reverse J-turns in stretched Caddies in the dry. If any You Tube super-sleuths can find those clips, they are much awesomeness.
A friend in high school had access to a HUGE Buick wagon. It would pin you against the tailgate when doing donuts so you couldn't move, just sit there and laugh.
Clearly what's needed here is a tremec T-56, and a helical LSD... also, it's a limo.
They said it's like "Drifting a porsche". This must be a result of poor weight distribution.
I volunteer as a passenger to help correct it.
Okay, so it can't drift. But it can almost imitate a handbrake 180...
@Spasticteapot: Add Max Mosley to get even closer to an 'ass' engined Nazi slot car.
It needs to be painted yellow with DMX across the windsheild!
Oh, OK, I thought this was the premiere to the next Fast & Furious movie.
Prom night just got a little better.....
Swedish proms must be so cool. I was born in the wrong country.
I've now found my wedding limo. I wonder if they are for hire in the US.
What, no Rockford?
And I bet that with the crappy 239hp 4.6L 2V V8, it would be *impossible* to drift if it wasn't on a wet surface.
That is an amazing bit of hoonery, considering the vehicle. Wonder how queasy people in the back would get? That's some serious sliding.
Um, despite the short sleave shirts and no sign of snow, I would venture to say that there may have been some ice involved. If not, there is no way I'm getting into a limo if it is raining out! That track looked way to slick for just water.
It's the owner, driver and builder of this porsche 911 turbo=
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"He is known as Qvarnis" And that car is officially set a record for the worlds fastest road leagal car. Around 1000HP depending on turbo boost.
Regards.
@Karpet:
Well we have 20 celcius plus here right now! The weather in Stockholm, is very similar to the weather in New York!
Regards
@SundaySunday:
I saw that tape years ago and would really like to see that again.... It was freaking amazing seeing those Series 75's raising wheels in reverse J turns!
Interesting, but I've had a 28 passenger bus, an E-350 conversion, on mud, with passengers. Only about 12 passenger, though.
They were rather happy once we emerged from the field where the parking was for a high-end wine-tasitng event, or something like that, and they weren't wading through mud in high-heels nice clothes.
A majority of the other vehicles, primarily limosines, were mired hopelessly.
Once the bouncing and sliding was over, I think mud fell out of that vehicle's undercarraige for years.
My own mantra is, in foul traction conditions, exit speed is a directly correlated to entry speed, A.K.A., the Bradley method.
yes....but......why?
They should use these people to model the limo handbrake in the next GTA.
What's cooler? Donuts in a motherfucking full-size school bus.
I talked my bus driver in high school into doing one when the parking lot was empty and we were waiting on one kid who had some sort of delay or something. Just the one, and it was a snowy lot. But yeah, donut in a school bus.
@Mr.U:
I thought this was the world's fastest road legal car:
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@Mr.U: But he is definitly an asshole.
His company has just been put up on swedish tradiding comisions warning list..
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