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8 Crazy and Unique Formula Drift Cars!
If you’re an avid Formula Drift fan and followed along for years you may have your share of favorite memories. However, can you remember some of the most unique FD builds to take the grid? Here are our top 8 picks for most unique Formula Drift Cars! Let us know if you think we missed any or what your favorite ones are!
8. James Bondurant’s Factory Five Shelby Replica
James Bondurant (son of Bob Bondurant) brought a few unique cars out to Formula Drift over his career span. The most unique was a Factory Five Roadster, which is a mock chassis of the famous 427 Shelby Cobra. He never qualified in it
7. Mike Peter’s Automatic Chevrolet El Camino
Mike Peters drove a 3 speed automatic Chevrolet El Camino around Formula Drift for quite some time! The automatic transmission is now illegal in Formula Drift so this is another unique feature to this odd drift car that stands out. You could also classify it as the only “truck” to run in Formula Drift if you wanted too. The really cool thing about this build is that is was super budget and Mike Peters was decently competitive with it.
6. Travis Reeder’s Electric EL1 Chevrolet Camaro
Travis Reeder with Napoleon Motorsports unveiled a full electric Chevrolet Camaro for the 2019 Formula Drift season. The car qualified at Road Atlanta putting this Chevy in the history books of Formula Drift. This Camaro runs Konig Ampliform wheels that are 20″ x 9.5″in the rear and 19″ x 8.5″ in the front wrapped in Nitto NT555G2 tires.
5. Team Falken’s 1969 Chevrolet Camaro
Team Falken really had their glory days of Formula Drift in the early years of the sport. The 1969 Chevy Camaro was a perfect example of the boys in teal and blue throwing anything on the track they thought could drift. Ryan Hampton was tasked with trying to wheel this old muscle car around Formula Drift. While the car never performed exceptionally well he did look up to the standard of the times in Formula Drift and man it looked good sideways.
4. James Robinson’s V6 Honda Element
James Robinson took his day job as an engineer at Honda and applied his skills to building a V6 swapped Honda Element for Formula Drift. This marks the only SUV or non-car chassis to compete in the sport to date. The new rulebook does not allow trucks or SUVs to compete in the series so this will stand as the lone qualifying SUV for a long time into the future.
3. Tanner Foust’s RWD Volkswagen Passat
Tanner Foust and his crew chief/builder Stephan Papadakis have brought some wild builds into Formula Drift over the years. I choose to dig into the Volkswagen Passat that was converted to RWD with a Chevrolet LS7 squeezed into the engine baby. The car was a very unique chassis and the first Volkswagen to compete in Formula Drift. While Tanner Foust is retired from Formula Drift he still brings the Passat out to events such as Gridlife where the car has been dubbed the “Drift Taxi.”
2. Blake Fuller’s RWD Acura Integra
In the early days of Formula Drift we had Blake Fuller of Braille Battery bring the first RWD converted FWD car to Formula Drift. He showed up with a DC2 Acura Integra that he converted to RWD and competed in FD. This car wouldn’t even be competitive in Pro Am these days but it was pretty cool and unique for its time. It was also the first Honda chassis to compete in Formula Drift with several to follow.
1.Federico Sceriffo’s Nitrous Powered Ferrari 599
This is the car you are likely the most familiar with on this list. The Ferrari 599 made a debut in the 2018 season piloted by Italian drifter Fedrico Sceriffo. The first version of the car was a twin-supercharge the 6.0-liter V12 for its debut season. It was later simplified to a simpler motor setup with nitrous to top it off for power. It’s not likely we will see another exotic car compete in Formula Drift in the next decade so this is truly a crazy and unique chassis to treasure.
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Honda CR-Z Concepts (SPEED)
For those of you who remember our 2010 Project Honda CR-Z build for SEMA it was recently featured on the SPEED Channel’s Honda CR-Z Concepts.
The article features a collection of CR-Z’s, which were awarded to a select few companies for a special build. Companies included but not limited to; KÖNIG Wheels, HPD, Bisimoto Engineering, Eibach Springs and DSO Eyewear.
KÖNIG’s concept featured a set of KÖNIG Milligrams in matte black, a Synergy Green paint scheme with matte black accents along the sides of the car, Thule rack, custom Kicker Audio system, Eibach Springs, Weapon-R Performance components and so much more! KÖNIG’s objective of the concept was to combine Tuner style with various lifestyle and sports attributes including Skateboarding, Surfing and BMX.
All CR-Z concepts were shown off in a special area within the Honda booth at the 2010 SEMA show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
After the SEMA show, the KÖNIG Wheels Honda CR-Z spent that entire year attending various auto shows and many large international auto shows as well as some spotlight appearances on the show floor of Honda dealerships.
KÖNIG would like to thank Honda Motors for another great opportunity. Special thanks to Whitfield Racing for their efforts in making this a successful build and all the great companies who helped make this happen.
To check out the article, Click Here
Images below courtesy of the SPEED Channel
2012 Honda Civic Tour
Linkin Park and Incubus have joined forces for this summer’s Honda Civic Tour. The tour begins this August in Bristow, VA, and tickets are on sale now!
KÖNIG Wheels is proud to be a product sponsor of the Honda Civic Tour for yet another year. This year, Linkin Park and Incubus have teamed up to create an incredible show, which the Honda Civic Tour has been known for. This will be a very unique blend of talented musical artists, and a great turnout for fans and car enthusiasts alike.
The 2012 Honda Civic Si Features 18″ KÖNIG Deception wheels in a matte black finish, which were then painted two-tone. The spokes were painted bright orange, which pop in contrast to the Civic’s custom airbrushed paint job that gives off the illusion of the car breaking out of a cocoon. Other features of the car include Toyo Proxes 4 Plus tires, and an Exclusive Honda Factory Performance Kit, which boasts a complete aero body kit with front, side and underbody spoilers.
To view the KÖNIG Deception on our website click here: Click Here
For more information regarding the 2012 Honda Civic Tour such as Dates & Tickets, Bands, Sweepstakes and the Custom Civic visit: Honda Civic Tour
KÖNIG / Honda CR-Z Hangs out at Honda City
We would like to thank Honda City of Levittown, New York for displaying the KÖNIG Honda CR-Z on the sales floor for some great exposure. Honda’s new CR-Z is an exciting platform that combines sport and hybrid all together. As you may remember Konig built this car for Honda to help the launch of the platform. The Konig CR-Z was unveiled at the 2010 SEMA Show in Las Vegas in the Honda Booth. We hope that the Konig CR-Z will help to promote and show what accessorizing can do, especially to hybrids!
The car will be on showcase there for about a month. If you are local and would like to see the CR-Z and the Lightweight Konig Milligram Wheels up close and personal, just head over and check it out!
