Revealed - Drift styled Muscle Car - RTR-X

I approve very strongly of this. If it ends up looking anything like the artists impression it'll be epic. Pic reminds me a hell of a lot of the old street machine type ones too.

It's the love child of Vaughn Gitting Junior who is a pro drifter and is said to be on the track after SEMA!

Rysz.

Ford V8 - a crate engine initially, over 400BHP for $8k!

Rysz.

Yeh the suspension has the usual "have you even looked at a suspension design book" look to it that unfortunatley so many US Muscle and Rods have, a lot of show, without much good theory behind it. *Rant mode on* I know that sounds harsh, it's just a simple engineers opinion of it - good looking shape and design of bits of metal welded together, does not equal good engineering. That whole inboard mounted shock arangment made from billet alloy is showing off what a CNC machine can do, not the engineering skills of the guys who drew it in CAD *Rant mode off*

Looking at the upper arms in particular I guess they had a set of hubs they wanted to use, and putting a bend in them was the only way to package it all - what they should have done is shortend the hub, or used one more suited to the layout dictated by the overall vehicle concept, but whatever, I doubt the car is ment to be the best thing possible around a track, thus picking up on suspension oddness I guess is missing the point......

Of course looks wise both in concept and exicution thats figging awesome! Love the lime green detailing - more of this I say, more ;D

i quite like the idea, It could look really good. I think the rims and arches are going to spoil the look though, seems daft to go blending in all the body mods nice and smoothly and then just screwing those aftermarket looking arches on the side and fitting tyres that are not the right size.

another thing i can never work out on builds like this. chassis wise they allways end up with a big box section ladder frame, which yes i know is esay and strong but if your building from the ground up surely a proper space frame would be lighter, stronger and more pleasing to the eye rather than some big square lumps of box section.
would at least mean they could have the suspension pick ups tied into the frame properly and had striaght wishbones. you would of thought with it being a drift car it would need decent front end geometry?

Am I the only one thinking it looks best here - without the arch extensions?

F & F Tokyo Drift written all over it, but i do approve !

Very nice except for the manky tacked on arch extensions, and them aside I cant see what so JDM about it..

Pro touring is what I see.. and I likes what I see (bar the wheel arches natch..)