[Vincent]

Digis definately drift. And they do it well. It's interesting because, minus a frontal steering system (AE86 and RX7 rs have them), digis work much more like a real car than bits.

The dual motors in the back of the digis work much like a 2 way limited slip differential (LSD) on a car.

I'm not even going to try to explain how a 2 way LSD works because it would take a page of it's own.

Let's say you put the digi into a turn.
You let off the throttle (gas) a little to slow it down. The dead weight of the motors slows the wheels allowing the back wheels to slide a bit at an angle. Then you turn the wheel to the direction you want the digi to go and then gradually give a little more throttle. The wheel closest to the direction you are turning gets a small ammount of power, where as the wheel on the outside (away from the direction you are turning) recieves most of the power to "push" the digi in that direction. With the right ammount of throttle you will induce a "real" drift.

I do it all the time on the kitchen floor (rough tile allows for limited traction). It brings a grin everytime I do it because it works the exact same way in a real car.

I own a 240sx and play with the exact same quirky physics in real life on a regular basis.

A lot of people are saying the frontal steering systems on the 86 are quirky. There is a good reason to this but I don't feel like explaining it now.

Bits have a rear drive system more like what people reffer to as a "Detroit Locker." At least I think that's what it's called. This is were the rear axels of a rearwheel drive car are basically welded together so that wheels spin at the same speed all of the time. This is the reason that the bits like to spin in place a lot. I doubt that even proportional throttle would help this problem.
Drifting a bit is a lot like pulling the Ebrake through a corner in a Camero. It's pretty uncontrolled and normally doesn't look very graceful.