I didnt realise you could get a standard FWD hot hatch so sideways and recover it safely, I found out yesterday by accident that you can

Never had a car proper sideways before mainly due to never having anything RWD, but I'm surprised its pretty much the same to control and correct as RWD (and thankful!)

Basically it was damp and I was doing 75 in 4th on a private (genuinely!!) 2 lane service road, I turned in and it started to go round as I knew it would then all of a sudden the back end just snapped, so with all 4 tyres squealing and having to look out the side window to see where I was going I didnt really have time to think of much except floor it, I suppose if I was expecting it I could of changed down to 3rd but luckily there was enough power in 4th to keep it sideways until it slowed down enough to straighten itself out with the front wheels spinning. I can now see the attraction of having a bash at drifting and want a go proper.

So as soon as I have a job I'm going to look out for something cheap to pinball off the curbs/walls/hedges around here and have a go at learning how to do it, bring on the streeto