You can use any car to drift with just tap the e-brake if you think that you wont make the drift

Sometimes if you drive to close to the wall you will hit it or go through is and when you go through it you will mostly go through the ground.that make you car reset and you might end up in last place so I typhlosion am warning you don't drive too close to walls.

The mazda miata is the best car for street cross.it may be slow but it makes up for it in handling.make sure you drive over the little grey line when turning corners.

When you start, go right behind the person in front of you. You will be using his slip stream. You will catch up to him. When your about to hit him, change lanes and use nos. This should help.

Here are my tips hope you find them helpful.
1.When your in street cross races don't use the e-brake unless your experinaced ( If you are experianced this can be used great to your advantage)
2. When your in rally relay races leave your best car till last, this makes it easier to catch up if you fall behind.
3. When in drag races tap your nitrous button insted of keeping your hand on the nitrous button this actually makes your car go faster than insted of keeping your hand on the nitrous button.
4. Try to win as many races you can without buying upgrades this way you have more money to buy better cars eariler then upgrade it better! But if you find this to hard just upgrade.
5. Have a good handiling but low top speed car when drifting the neon is a ideal car to start drifting with.
6. Use shortcuts to your advantage ( memorise where they are on tracks that you race alot on so you know when it's best to turn and where they are)

To get infront of the guy infront of you, ram the back side of their car and turn to the side. This should get you infront of them.

To get the nissan skyline,subaru,corvette and the charger

Corvette :take the nissan 350z and beat the gold difficulty on the last street cross event (boss race:Hit The Apex)

Nissan Skyline: Take the corvette you won and use it the beat the same race on gold difficulty (boss race:Hit The Apex)

Charger: Take the subaru that you bought and use it to beat all the pro boss races on difficulty

Subaru: Take the charger you won and use it to beat all the pro boss races on difficulty again

The only reason you have to beat all the pro boss races on difficulty is because I forgot which races it is that you get the charger and subaru, but I know that it is on the pro challenges.
Sorry if 1 or 2 of these tips don't work

To master the drift mode you must have a car that has decent handling and a low top speed( such as a Neon).But make sure the handling is not to good.