Question we come across everyday. So here’s the definition via our friends at wikipedia.

Oversteer is a phenomenon that can occur in an automobile while attempting to corner or while already cornering. The car is said to oversteer when the rear wheels do not track behind the front wheels but instead slide out toward the outside of the turn. Oversteer can throw the car into a spin. The effect is opposite to that of understeer.

According to wikipedia here’s the actual definition.

Drifting refers to a driving technique and to a motor sport where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels through turns, while preserving vehicle control and a high exit speed. A car is said to be drifting when the rear slip angle is greater than the front slip angle prior to the corner apex, and the front wheels are pointing in the opposite direction to the turn (e.g. car is turning left, wheels are pointed right or vice versa), and the driver is controlling these factors. As a motor sport, professional drifting competitions are held across the world.

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A few years old but still pretty cool. As you may know smoke from drift events is common. It’s like the beef patty to a hamburger. How about colored smoke as you drift?

Ecsta SPT Colored Smoke tires are Kumho’s attention-getting Track & Competition DOT tires developed for drivers who participate in organized drifting and drag racing style burnout events. Kumho debuted colored smoke tires in May of 2005, and today’s Ecsta SPT Colored Smoke tires will continue to be crowd pleasers by producing colored smoke when they are spinning and sliding.

Ecsta SPT Colored Smoke tires feature a unique dye mixed throughout their tread compound to produce the colored smoke. This special tread compound is molded into Kumho Tire’s popular Ecsta SPT’s directional tread design that features large, independent shoulder blocks, four straight circumferential grooves and three solid center ribs to combine predictable handling and stability. On the inside, Ecsta SPT Colored Smoke tires feature twin steel belts reinforced by a spiral-wrapped, jointless nylon cap ply on top of rayon carcass plies to enhance durability.