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" Whose bright idea was it to include a car with an automatic transmission in this mix? Ours actually. We thought it would be fun to invite the most powerful IS to this dance because of its massive 416 bhp and 371 lb.-ft. of torque generated from its 5.0-liter V-8, not to mention its tail-happy nature (with the traction control turned off). What&amp;#039;s more, the IS F was Yoshihara&amp;#039;s drift car for the first half of the 2009 Formula D season (granted, his car was equipped with a manual gearbox and a 600-plus-bhp NASCAR V-8).   So how does one slide a front-engine/rear-drive car with an automatic transmission and no handbrake? &amp;quot;Just flick it,&amp;quot; says our man Millen.   &amp;quot;With the IS F, we needed to resort to what we in the drift industry call a feint initiation, or in good old terms, the Scandinavian Flick. The downside of this is that you start your slide a little slower than if you were using a handbrake or clutch kick. But the IS F has enough power to make up for any loss in speed. As soon as you turn the car in, it responds immediately. The chassis is set up really well and is very predictable. The IS F feels really good through the Manji, as it was fast and responsive through left/right transitions. It&amp;#039;s too bad there&amp;#039;s no handbrake here, or it would be even more controllable at the limit. One complaint was that instead of a rev limiter, the engine has a fuel cutoff at redline, so once you get going, it goes into a safety mode, cutting power when you need it.&amp;quot;   Our data revealed that the IS F got sideways with the best of them, averaging a drift angle of 37.0 degrees through the two sections, third best of the group. But because our 3825-lb. test car had some understeer at turn-in, possibly the result of having 54 percent of its weight over the front tires, its average speed through the drifts was compromised. But at the end of the day, the IS F was one of the most dramatic cars to drift, its well-tuned independent suspension giving our drivers excellent feedback.           "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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