Touge?

[Paul C]

What exactly is 'Touge'?

[Actual_Ben_Taylor]

Pronounced 'toe-gay' - is the term for dirfiting on mountain roads I think...

[Paul C]

Ahh right, sweet, thanks Ben

[Carl]

the biggest mountain i have round here is from the bottom of my drive to the road

[Genjuro]

lol, yeh i know what you mean, i live in Portsmouth which must be one of the flatest places you could live, theres nothing even hill like about. That said though i used to live in bucks which was hilly but you'd have to be insane to throw your car sideways down those skinny country roads, its not like the ones you see in japan with the smooth tarmac and lanes that are big enough for 1.5 cars.

[Simon AE86]

errrr...this is a bit weird.

The pronounciation of toe-gay is correct.

However, the kanji symbol for toe-gay literally means up-down. They use this term for winding mountain roads.

So although the words themselves dont mean it, but the term means winding mountain pass.

Hope the helps or that Pazza might be able to be even more accurate than me

Cheers

Si

[Mad Man Dan]

After watching my growing selection of Best Motoring DVD's over and over I thought Touge was more about grip racing than drifting?

As far as I understand it two cars head either up or down a 'hillclimb' one after the other. The car in front has to open up a considerable gap on the car behind to win, whilst the car behind simply has to maintain the same gap to the car in front (and preferably close the gap) to win?

Either way it's cool as **** and I quite often pretend the lane leading to my barn is a touge!

[Paul C]

I watched my best motoring vid tonight for the first time and I now understand Touge, it's the 350z shock dvd, pretty good one in my opinion.

[Mad Man Dan]

Ah, Vol.6 - a particularly fine vintage

[Paul C]

What are the others like? any good Silvia/Nissan versions?

[siranui]

Yup, the Kanji are up-down, and it's both a description of mountain roads, and the races there.

It's not about drifting, but it's where drifting was born.
A lot of the racing is against the clock and about setting good times on certain stretches. Think road-rally stages.
It's a lot about conventional grip racing, but some corners were best taken in a Scandy flick, which is how drifting got 'started', really.