i learnt this the hard way. after souping up my RX-7 to max perfomance i went for the drift king. the second race day toward the drift king is in tokyo n my mazda couldn't get anything better than 1600 points.
just because the drift king drives the RX-7 doesn't mean its the best there is. then i purchased the RX-8 n had its perfomance max'd. i Beat the DK in a heartbeat!
the RX-8 is better at handling and has a higher top speed n accelaration whereas the RX-7 needs more time to accelarate to its top speed. This makes it suck in small, tight conered tracks. it doesn't look that good either. RX-7 sucks!!!
DO NOT use the RX-7 in any Tokyo Dockyard drift race.
any other cars you might consider???
Bull****. RX-8 is good, but the RX-7 does NOT suck. My all-time record is 12,566 with that car. No way does it suck. Take it from someone who specialises in drifting in all NFS games.