Neither Fast Nor Furious: Previa Drifting - Jalopnik Comments

Neither Fast Nor Furious: Previa Drifting

karan1003 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:30:52 EDT

I now have something to do with my 01' Honda Odyssey...

karan1003

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CptSevere — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:28:24 EDT

I thought this was cool until I wrecked Mom's new '78 Monte Carlo on a dirt road leaving the high school parking lot in front of an audience of my peers. North Florida, 1979. Drifting wasn't hip yet. Especially when the ass end of our new Chevy was sticking up out of a drainage ditch after a serious overcorrection. Cop didn't write me a ticket, said I was already in enough trouble. He was right.

CptSevere

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koolykool44 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:37:21 EDT

Wow thats my dad work car, i drift it in the snow like none other but i didnt realize you could go so much further

koolykool44

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WillTheThrill3 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:25:24 EDT

@mwood10: I don't think people watch fifth gear. the only time it's heard of is when people say how much it sucks.

WillTheThrill3

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deus ex wagon — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:07:24 EDT

This reminds me of when I first got my license and was presented the keys to the family's Pontiac Trans Sport. Whenever it snowed we would take it to the parking lot of the Kmart that closed and e-brake that sucker. There would usually be a couple kids in a Mustang or Camaro that were already drifting there, and they would book it as soon as they saw what they assumed was a soccer mom. They always came back a few minutes later and were utterly astonished to see a minivan sideways, but they got over it and joined back in. Good times.

deus ex wagon

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NovaloadMissesPolar — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:51:55 EDT

There was something very Homer Simpsonian about the way that fat van was lurching along.

NovaloadMissesPolar

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emilyestelle — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:50:30 EDT

RWD, mid-engined, and SUPERCHARGED, you people are forgetting. Of all the minivans a 16 year old boy could be forced to drive by his parents, this is the best. And it had Chrysler's "swivel n' go" seating back in 1991.

emilyestelle

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DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:05:51 EDT

Jeebus. That looks like a fat man running to the head of the buffet line right after they mopped the floor. They must have got the idea from an old Laurel and Hardy movie.

DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror

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DicknMcNuggets — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:25:38 EDT

At least it's RWD...it's not like they're trying anything silly like drag race a civic...or make a non-AWD unicyle.

DicknMcNuggets

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mytdawg — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:46:27 EDT

@JoSCh: Why hello, you other white type cracker person... I actually live in a quite urban setting, no McMansions or soccer moms in my neighborhood. My house is 100 years old etc. We killed them and ate them. We do have a trial lawyer but he's like the local shark, you just leave him the hell alone. Me and one of my neighbors used to yell that back and forth across the street. White people have a strange sense of humor.

mytdawg

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JoSCh — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:55:56 EDT

@mytdawg: But I say it as an ex-white kid so it cancels itself out... it's like you've taken a class or something... wow. Sup mah honkie!

JoSCh

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SRekauqh — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:51:07 EDT

That was pretty bad-ass I must say...

SRekauqh

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A strolling player just got CR-Ved! — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:41:27 EDT

All those times I've said, "It's mid-engined! It's practically a Formula 1 car!" finally pay off! Someone was listening! :D

A strolling player just got CR-Ved!

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Thirty-Nine — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:39:57 EDT

Sideways-sliding boxes (and jellybeans) for the win.

Thirty-Nine

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ChristianGM — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:26:40 EDT

Its a mid engined supervan!

ChristianGM

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mytdawg — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:16:38 EDT

I'm now mauve.

mytdawg

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mytdawg — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:16:17 EDT

@rkwadd: But I say it as an ex-white kid so it cancels itself out...

mytdawg

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harumph — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:01:23 EDT

@rkwadd: don't pretend you weren't thinking it too.

harumph

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rkwadd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:54:45 EDT

@mytdawg: That's racist!

rkwadd

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mytdawg — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:44:51 EDT

Much like other cultural abominations this sport makes more sense in it's natural context. It falls apart when white kids get involved. Those bastards ruin everything.

mytdawg

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harumph — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:33:15 EDT

it's like the overweight kid who hangs out with all the skateboarders who has to try 10 times as hard to land anything.

harumph

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muhnkee_2 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:26:52 EDT

why o why do they need to paint their bonnets mat black, just how much low level sun can they have in the land of the rising sun???

muhnkee_2

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harumph — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:25:46 EDT

a carbon fiber(esque) hood? even if it was real, the hoodon that thing is miniscule. it'd make zero difference. still love a previa though. sideways engine, long shafts running the drive belts. total mishigas that thing is.

harumph

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pjsammy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:14:17 EDT

awesome. awesome. awesome!

how about an 80s Toyota Van off-roading video? Those things can do some crazy things!

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pjsammy

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Doggie Daddy runs on gin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:12:22 EDT

And for the protection of the driver it comes with a sushi bar

Doggie Daddy runs on gin

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selfhatingotaku — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:11:06 EDT

Yeah, wheres my hat tip??? I expect a Jalop-o-star for this outrage!

selfhatingotaku

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Al Navarro — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:07:16 EDT

@Matt Hardigree:
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt Hardigree...guess you can't read every comment on every post every day...(I certainly don't. Nearly wrote "In a van down by the river" in a comment for that "what vehicle would you live in" QOTD.

As you were.

Al Navarro

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OldeEnglishD misses Polar — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:03:19 EDT

LOOK OUT FOR THAT JELLYBEAN!!!!!!!!!!!

OldeEnglishD misses Polar

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Matt Hardigree — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:00:54 EDT

@Al Navarro: I didn't see that there, I got it off of JPCN.

Matt Hardigree

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mwood10 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:59:27 EDT

In case you haven't seen it,

Fifth Gear drifts vans

mwood10

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LTDScott changed his name! — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:59:06 EDT

Wow, Juno went berserk.

LTDScott changed his name!

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Al Navarro — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:56:02 EDT

Again no hat tip to tipster (Self-Hating Kotaku)?

Al Navarro

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Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:55:12 EDT

I heart the Previa - it's the only mid-engined car my mom would consider driving.

And, if it's got wheels, it's worth drifting (I don't know if shopping carts count, but any time I go for groceries, I'm trying to overpower the back wheels).

Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car

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Froggmann — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:53:50 EDT

Hey rear wheel drive, Supercharged mid engine why the hell not? At least it's diffrent and not another Tureno or Silva...

Froggmann

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eltonito — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:53:34 EDT

Wow, I kinda like it though it is no match for the Eurovan 996.

[videos.streetfire.net]

eltonito