Touge is dead. Everyone thinks the touge is just 1v1 racing in your widebody Evo 9. No, it's much chiller...

Touge is dead. Everyone thinks the touge is just 1v1 racing in your widebody Evo 9. No, it's much chiller. I use to live in Japan in 2005-08 and it still was nice. None of that widebody S13 with a locked diff, no rocketbunny BRZ, none of that. Clean cars, friendly people, and amazing communication, on MT. Irohazaka and Mt. Hakone (Nanamagari route) Everyone going downhill waits at every corner, so the uphill car can transition their slide in the tiny straightaway, and if one of the drifters wiped out, everyone waiting at the corner honks loudly so everyone stops, no words being said, just simple communication through their cars. I'm grateful my dad was into JDM, every weekend I got to drive in the passenger seat of his R32 GT-S. It was almost completely stock, but everyone who was drifting on the pass was laughing and having fun, I remember seeing a S13 and a R32 crash into each other, a fender bender, nothing serious, they both got out and started laughing and saying "Look where you're going dumbass" while continuing to laugh, despite having crashed into eachother, and from then on, they turned into friends I believe. Anyone who came here from Initial D would not understand the touge. It's much more than intense racing, it's simply drifting for fun. OFC there is the racing, but I prefer the drifting scene. Now-a-days everyone ruins the touge culture, by posting the drifting the Japanese do on YouTube. Then they put down speedbumps on the passes. That was the case with Haruna (Akina) after everyone raced on there after seeing Initial D. Not to mention the tuning of the 1990s, the cars looked amazing, none of the newschool BRZ rocketbunnys, no hellaflush S13, none of that garbage, back in the 90s it was stock body, maybe a lip spoiler (Mostly a Wangan wing/BWAVE spoiler) and maybe some wheels or bumpers.

At least you got to experience some of the magic first hand, op. There's no car culture where I live, but the roads are peaceful at night.

Yes it's dead and gone now if you weeb faggots can be quiet about it that'd great.

touge is alive and well in california. none of that constant stream of cars going up and down at the same time in the day, i've seen videos of it, cool stuff, but there is an active community of people who enjoy driving and modifying their cars specifically for the various mountain roads around california. i perfer racing people over drifting but it's very common to run into other groups of people at night who are out having fun and are up for some group drifting/racing.

snapback faggots with fiestas and handbrake drifts have it on life support

thanks for drawing the delica, user
it looks awesome
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Is that a saturn?

I live in new york and pretty much am the only person that runs my touge roads. Either I'm literally the only one, which is very likely, or nobody knows the roads exist, which is also very likely. Kind of lonely to rip roads alone all the time.

Snapbacks can neck themselves for all i care, they're the ones that started hacking decent shit boxes with unrepairable stance "mods". I think the evo is somehow immune to their bullshit compared to the wrx

I still do solo touge, not to race or set times or even drift, but to enjoy the roads and my car. Driving at 50-70% on a nice twisty road is just so comfy and satisfying. I'm not sure what it is, but I think it's that same chill feeling that you're talking about.