Try this in a safe environment:

- Start out by going 20 mph straight in 2nd gear with constant throttle
- Flick steering wheel right approximately 30 degrees at 0.2 hz while still maintaining constant throttle
- When you feel car roll over to the left, lift off the throttle and flick the wheel to the left approximately 60 degrees at 0.2 hz
- The rear end should start to come around, get on the the throttle and countersteer in the opposite direction.

This is known as the Scandinavian flick. It's the technique used by rally car drivers to get around tight corners. They sometimes use the handbrake as well.

 

Pump your tires up to about 40 psi if you plan a lot of this nonsense ... at stock pressures, if you do something wrong and the slidding tires really hooks up, you can pull the tire off the bead and collapse it, and then experience what happens when the rim hooks up with the pavement.

Keeping it in a slide requires finese of the right degree of opposite steering and throttle. Very sudden throttle changes (particularly off) result in sudden and violent changes in vehicle attitude, like snapping completely in the other direction, or transitioning into a spin.

With very little experience the tendency is also not to put in enough opposite steer and soon enough.

But if you really want to get good, go to a track driving school where you can learn the various techniques under controlled and supervised conditions. It may offset the trip to the body shop or worse. Certainly a better trade off.

 

I accidentally drifted my '04 v6 one day. It had rained earlier (but wasn't currently) so the roads were slippery, and I barely took a wide corner at around 10-15 mph, and i guess my wheels caught on the water and didn't respond to me turning the wheel left to 'complete' my turn, so i ended up just sliding across at an angle (had started the turn before it 'caught' so i was diagonal), and then slammed into the near curb sidewalk (luckily no cars in other lanes).

That sucked hiney....so if I can accidentally slide going 10 mph on a wide turn....then yes, you should be able to as well.