kids were learning how to powerslide up and down the winding passes (known in Japanese as touge). Less focused on racing and more focused on style, the cars were vastly less glamorous—cheap ...

But seeing the former WRC champion drifting up the touge (mountain pass) in Japan is on a whole new level of excitement. Mount Iwaki in Aomori Prefecture looks like drifting heaven with 69 corners ...

is an online Touge Racing Game based on Japanese car culture in the 90s. With an emphasis on balance between realism and fun gameplay, the physics are tailored for competitive drift racing ...

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For manual-gearbox BRZs and 86s (Toyota doesn't use the GR prefix in Japan), the software entails a revised accelerator map that allows the driver to blip the revs for better, smoother downshifting.