Headscratchers / The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

• How is it that Sean is a gearhead completely oblivious to the idea of drifting? Is he the type that only practices his love of cars in the garage and on the street, but never picks up a magazine about cars? Not being able to drift is one thing, but confusion as to what the word means at all is quite another.
  • Since he was a fan of home-built, grassroots American muscle at the start of the movie, it's kind of understandable that the idea of drifting would be alien to him, as drift cars are typically always imports; back when the movie was released, using a muscle car which had been set up for drift was very, very uncommon. Even so, most car enthusiasts, barring those who hate any and everything outside of their preferred car choices (which can't be true for Sean, as he only makes a small quip about the imports being 'cute little toys' in comparison), do at the very least acknowledge certain types of motorsport popular with certain cars. It seems his confusion was to have a way to show off drifting in a good way for people who didn't know what drifting was, as well as making Sean's poor performance more credible.