On Tuesday afternoon at the SEMA show in Las Vegas, journalists were treated to a lunch of Nathan's hotdogs, King Size Snickers and Pepsi, compliments of the Big 2.5: General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Daimler Chrysler. Weary journos scarfed down the free food at the Motor Trend proving grounds nestled in between two giant halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The after-lunch entertainment was a drifting exhibition featuring Samuel Hubinette's Viper drift car, Rhys Millen's Pontiac GXP drift car and a Ford Mustang GT drift car (not the official Ken Gushi racer, though). It was a great exhibition of drifting entertainment and wasn't competitive in the least. As a matter of fact, it was somewhat touching to see all three automakers get together on behalf of our hunger and stage this little display of solidarity, which we present to you in this web-based moving picture show. Photos after the jump.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
D-Dog @ Nov 1st 2006 12:09PM
Boy, that sound track is annoying. Lets just hear the sound of the cars riping around the track.
SoloTwo @ Nov 1st 2006 1:59PM
Yeah seriously wtf was with the music? Jeezus christ!
Btw that IS Gushi's current GT500 drift car, he's been using it since the 2nd event of the season.
TheOne442 @ Nov 1st 2006 2:32PM
That GXP looks great, those things are going to sell like crazy.
Edsel @ Nov 1st 2006 4:31PM
I don't get "drifting". What's the point?
PiCASSO @ Nov 1st 2006 9:29PM
I'll take the Solstice, thank you.
mark gigstad @ Nov 2nd 2006 9:28PM
why do the japanese get all the credit for "creating drifting" when we were doing it clear back before most of those drivers were born [1982]. granted, we didn't have judged competions, we just wasted tires for the heck of it! thank god for our friends at the gas stations that got us tires for cheap!