I hate cars. I am deeply opposed to cars. To the fault of one antisemite millionaire reich-humper who lobbied to make cars the only possible way to locomote in America, we deal with -
Ahem.
A minimum of 30k US traffic fatalities per year since Ford died in 47, the countless wars fought and lives lost over Capitalism's addiction to oil, risk of irreparable cognitive damage inflicted upon anyone born before the banning of leaded gasoline, lackluster or nonexistant public transit in anywhere but dense cities, and an entire industry based around the production, purchase, use, insurance, repair, and eventual wasteful scrapping of these one-ton blights on humanity, as well as the billions spent razing homes and nature to make way for freeways and interstates. Not to mention the countless tales of union busting, safety regulation skirting, and just crimes upon crimes committed by every single automotive manufacturer under the sun.
B U T.
Have you ever drifted cool in a video game? :)
Unless it's something fantastically high speed like F-Zero, I won't play a car game unless it has sick drifting. Lego Racers was my fix when I was a tiny baby of 5 or so, though then it was called a POWERSLIIIIIIIDE and it was a requirement to win (outside of the instant warp green bricks of course), most notably on the tracks where you race against the blue alien girl whose name is a slur.
Then I got CRAZY TAXI as a 6 year old horrific baby-child hybrid and this game... drifts hard. Big, loud, product-placed cash money drifting. Breathtaking. Every bonus blip of cab fare clawed out of the wallet of my unsuspecting customer by grinding my taxi against a boundary gloriously crashes wave after wave of dopamine onto my joy deprived, depraved little mind.
I tend to prefer the bombastic cartoon drifting that video games gravitate towards. Games about realistic drifting have been around just as long as ridiculous kart racers, but I am bad at them. I got a copy of Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec to scratch my insatiable, primal itch to drift, but this game is hard. I'd take OutRun over it any day. Do you get to impress your hot date with sick drifts and rival chases in Gran Turismo? Didn't think so.
In real life, drifting involves allowing your horrid metal death machine to lose traction in its rear tires to force the car sideways as it moves. Terrifying. And expensive! do you know how much tires cost? Takumi should not have been able to just casually practice drifting on spare tofu money. So why not get on Mario Kart Deluxe for the price of Less than ONE real life tire, and BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEE 
(Also you should play Buck Up and Drive, it's like $8 on steam and also drifts hard)
