# CarX Drift Racing

> Realistic mobile drifting simulator with customizable cars and multiplayer racing. (iPhone/iPad app by CarX Technologies.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/carx-drift-racing/id644907661 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [CarX Technologies](https://appshunter.io/developer/1179670377)
- Category: Games, Entertainment, Racing, Simulation
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 17,695 App Store ratings · 51 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 8.0 · 1.3 GB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, European Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish and 1 more
- Released: 2013-05-19
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/carx-drift-racing/id644907661/reviews.md

## What is CarX Drift Racing?

THE MOST WANTED DRIFT GAME EVER
More than 30,000,000 people around the world downloaded CarX!
Warning! Be careful, this application may entertain you for more hours than you think! Don't forget to take a break at least every 40 minutes!

THE REAL DRIFTING SIMULATOR
- CarX Drift Racing gives you a uniquely simple and intuitive experience in handling sport cars
- If you like to drift, get ready to spend many hours playing this game
- Use the separate handbrake button to start drifting
- Burn tires doing donuts
- Animation of the thick smoke while drifting

THE MOST REALISTIC MOBILE RACING GAME
- Insane feeling of powerful sport cars
- Unique driving on different surfaces — asphalt, grass, and sand
- Racing on high detailed tracks
- You can customize the controls
- You can select different setups for every car — Stock, Turbo, Racing, and Drift
- You can change color of your car and wheels
- Live cameras and replays
- You can upload your best replays to YouTube and Everyplay

MULTIPLAYER
- Compete with real rivals in online tournaments
- Reach the top of 5 leagues
- Drive in tandem and unlock premium cars

CAREER MODE
- Win cups and earn coins
- Unlock 40 sport cars and new tracks
- Ghost Mode for competing with your best race

ONLINE TIME ATTACK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
- Compete with your friends and beat world records
- Time attack racing mode with worldwide ranking

TRUE ENGINE AND TURBO SOUNDS
- Original engine sound for every car
- Simulated turbo and blowoff valve sounds!

ADDICTIVE MUSIC
NEW licensed sound tracks

TIPS:
- Your COINS, unlocked cars, and tracks are saved on your device. DO NOT DELETE game before you update it, or all your progress will be LOST!
- To make the game run faster close all other applications in task manager
[Double click the home button and drag other applications upward]
- LIKE facebook.com/carx2 for news and updates

If you like high-end racing games, get ready to spend hours playing CarX.
Have fun with CarX Drift Racing!

## Key features

- Realistic drifting physics
- Handbrake button for drifting
- Customizable car controls and setups
- Multiplayer online tournaments
- Career mode with unlockable cars and tracks
- Time attack with worldwide ranking
- Live cameras and replays

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SCHOOLBOY | $2.99 | one-time |
| WANNABIE | $7.99 | one-time |
| WANGSTER | $12.99 | one-time |
| POCKET MONEY | $3.99 | one-time |
| GOOD START | $5.99 | one-time |
| DRIFT THEM ALL | $12.99 | one-time |
| Starter pack | $4.99 | one-time |
| Drift School Extra Pack | $1.99 | one-time |
| MINIPACK | $2.99 | one-time |
| Fujin Drift Extra Pack | $2.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of CarX Drift Racing?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Awesome gameplay
- 👍 Great graphics
- 🎮 No ads
- 💰 Good value for money
- 🕹️ Challenging but fun
- 🏆 Competitive multiplayer

**Cons**

- 🐛 Glitchy and unstable
- 🔧 Limited customization options
- 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
- 🤖 Overly assisted driving
- 🔍 Lack of real-time multiplayer

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Game crashes on certain tracks
- Rewards not registering properly
- Ads still show up after purchase
- Steering issues when 'Steering Assist' is off

**Most requested features**

- More car customization options
- Real-time multiplayer lobbies
- Offline/local multiplayer
- More tracks and events
- Improved car sounds and physics
- Free roam mode

## Recent user reviews (10 of 51)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/carx-drift-racing/id644907661/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Nothing beats it!

*2024-03-29*

I love how you can go to different maps and play in different courses. It is fun. The graphics are pretty good, and there are no ads. NONE! It js the best game ever. Buy it for high thrills and boredom killing. All the offers are at a good price, and won’t get you bankrupt in the first day of playing. The best part is playing with an ai to challenge your best score on a race, along with online play too. This game is too good! The only problem is that the games uses the metric system for everything except for car speed when playing can be miles per hour. I’m not good with imperial to metric conversions, so if I could change that, that would be great! For example, the cars weight is kilograms not pounds, and speed is kilometers per hour not miles per hour for fastest drift speed. Other than that, I have no complaints!

### 4/5 — CarX

*2022-01-09, version 1.16.2*

Absolutely amazing game, truly love the attention to detail when it comes to the cars. The upgrades are better than any other car game that I’ve played. I play this on PC but recently got it on mobile and can say its great. Mobile theres a lot of ads but even mobile game has it. Only things I’d like on the game is more attention to detail in painting and some upgrades. Such as gutting interiors, custom steering wheel letterings, and maybe even for that extra detail is damage to cars like fender rub and dents. Love the game cause the developers support mods (PC) and they listen to the community. Another thing which I know takes time, is more big body VIP cars. People like to host more than drift meets like car meets, and people put some serious time into paint and building their cars. So I think some cars that a lot of people will enjoy is 
Lexus LS400 & or LS430
Nissan Cima/Infiniti q45 (I own irl & love)
Lexus GS300
Honda Prelude (1st or 2nd gen)
MK3-4 Golf/Gti
BMW 740LI (e38)
EK Honda Civic
Infiniti G37 
NB Miata
Nissan President

I think tons of people will love to build these cars up including drifting, car meets, cruises, and others. Much love to the developers!

### 4/5 — Fantastic game!

*2021-11-20, version 1.16.2*

This is my all time favorite game on my phone. I downloaded it like ten years ago, destroyed with it and forgot about it over the years until recently. Now if it would connect with my Facebook maybe I could get my money and cars back but it’s coming back to me slowly through playing it again. My only concern is that for some reason I click sign on Facebook and it says it’s not available for this app. Please please fix that! I had sooooo much money. And now I don’t know how to collect the x1x2x3x4x5 drift points. It always keeps me at the same exact score now. Before I’d get like 150k drift points per run, now my highest is like 6k. Anybody know what’s up with that? I don’t wipe out, make gorgeous shreds throughout the entire courses paths and still my highest was like 6k now. Someone help me learn why my dp’s aren’t landing in multiples anymore. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

### 5/5 — This is amazing just needs a little touch

*2021-10-02, version 1.16.2*

Car x drift racing is amazing. This game brings drifting to another level just wish the developers updated the game because it’s still a great name. They should add online rooms to this as well but without using gas to join a lobby and also more modifications for cars to make it as realistic as possible. This a a great game hopefully you developers see this and hopefully make the changes. I love this game I’ve played it for years and still trying to get better at it😁. I know there is a Car X 2 but it’s not the same I prefer this one to have online rooms and events and more. Anyways the Car X 2 is fun in all but the gasoline system it kinda a let down for me. That’s why I play this game more. Thank you for making a game that I can play all I want.

### 4/5 — CAR DAMAGE EFFECTS

*2020-09-28, version 1.16.2*

LOVE EVERYTHING SO FAR!! The new updates have been amazing, seatbelts, color change of lights, seats, shift knob etc! Awesome! 
However I would love if the cars would take damage as if we were drifting in reality(I know it’s a game) but for the bumpers, mirrors,to fall off or take scratches and dings or banging doors, and have multiple outcomes not the same noticeable marks each time you know? 
It would be rad to have especially on a multiplayer run, you should make it so that the car isn’t ghost and we can actually have the option to physically crash into if we get too close on a tandem or whatever have you! 

As for the wheels! Great job adding new 90s wheels to the tribe! I love them! I stay static on some 15’s on my 240 irl! So that’s rad I can make my own car on the game! Keep it up!

### 5/5 — Help! Game will not load past 75%!!!

*2020-09-16, version 1.16.2*

Hello Car-X gents!  Still giving you a 5 star rating due to the hours and hours I’ve invested into the game.  Since Car-X 2 has come out, I still follow up with the original for about an hour however, the last few weeks the game will not load past 75%.  It just continues to try an load but is unsuccessful in completing the task.  You guys have always been fantastic with communication not only with myself but the rest of your consumers throughout the life of Car-X (original).  Figured I would take shot at you guys possibly seeing this review and take a look at the game or provide a update patch to get us going again.   Again, thanks for all the hard work put into this version, it’s greatly appreciated and sought after even though #2 is out and even more incredible!  Hope this reaches you fellas....if not, we’ll...I guess it’s onto the newest version as a “experienced newbie”.  Will take some time before I am competitive as I would like to be.  Either way, I hope Car-X2 lines your pockets in gold my friends...it is honestly a work of art!  Here, here!  Thanks again guys...Tygart511

### 5/5 — Best game to me as a kid

*2020-06-06, version 1.16.2*

There are a lot of games but this one stands out. The graphics are spot on and it’s not one of those games that every race there is an ad. Also as a 13 year old boy this game isn’t like the other games it very addictive and I like it doesn’t use “energy” so you don’t have to wait so you have enough “energy” to play this game is awesome I would just like that some more of the cooler cars would have prices and so you didn’t have play events but that’s just one minor inconvenience all in all this game is very good and would recommend to everyone

### 3/5 — CarX Drift Racing

*2019-11-30, version 1.16.2*

Ok. Lemme say this. Graphics-✅, Updates-🤷‍♂️,Game quality-✅, Car steering and going-❌,Most of the game✅! I’ve been playing the game for 2 years. I download it every time I get a new phone or something. One of the first games I ever downloaded on my 1st ever phone! However I had to delete the game because, I keep getting spammed( and I mean SPAMMED) notifications like no tomorrow. I reset my phone even and it kept going off like crazy!! Very annoying ❌🤔
I deleted the app due to this but other then that, Game is decent and fun. Here’s some other random junk I’m gonna put that y’all can ignore:⤵️ ok so my car always glitches but it’s still ok. Free play option maybe? 😮 The online chat never worked kinda?? Maps and cars are to hard to get (I think, idk I forgot) The game really is decent and is worth a shot. Anyways thanks for reading( Even tho I bet nobody on this earth is gonna find this and read it) and I drift ya later! Catch me on track! CYAAaaaaa👋 🚗💨 *Insert drifting sound effect here*

### 4/5 — Gameplay declining?

*2019-08-14, version 1.16.2*

Great game, but it seemed like I was driving worse as I got into higher levels during multiplayer. My car, even though it was very well suited for my style, seemed to have significantly less power than when I played other modes. It was like the game was making me mess up. The first few times I thought I was just messing up, but when I noticed I would press the handbrake/gas and there was a noticeable lag, I knew something wasn’t right. I kept playing though but it’s been about two weeks and now I’m getting scores that are consistently getting worse because of it. I’m now scoring about half what I was and I’m over it. Time to move on to something else.

### 5/5 — Friend feature??

*2019-06-15, version 1.16.2*

This is easily the best racing or more specifically drifting game. There’s almost nothing wrong with it, amazing graphics, the physics feel great, customization is admirable, the events helps get you currency to get more cars but there’s still a perfect blend of grinding to get cash, and the multiplayer is second to none. The game is great, and I’ve shared it with my friends and we’ve even battled in the league. Yet, it’s just not the same as being on the same track, throwing tandems with them. The game would be perfect if there was a friend list of some sort and a way to play with them. The game would have a new reason to play it, because I can literally slide around with my guys! Thank you allowing me to voice my opinion!!

## Frequently asked questions about CarX Drift Racing

### What is CarX Drift Racing?

CarX Drift Racing is a mobile game that simulates the experience of drifting with sport cars. It offers realistic handling, various tracks, and multiple game modes for players to enjoy.

### What are the key features of this drifting game?

Key features include a realistic drifting simulator with a separate handbrake button, customizable car setups and colors, diverse driving surfaces, online multiplayer tournaments, a career mode, and time attack challenges.

### Is CarX Drift Racing free to play?

The game is free to download and play. However, it offers in-app purchases, which can be used to unlock cars, tracks, or other in-game content.

### What platforms is CarX Drift Racing available on?

Based on the description, this is a mobile application, suggesting availability on iOS and Android devices. Users can typically find it on their respective app stores.

### How can I improve my drifting skills in the game?

The game provides a simple and intuitive experience for handling sport cars, with a dedicated handbrake button to initiate drifts. Practicing on different surfaces and utilizing various car setups can help players master the art of drifting.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.16.2 — 2019-03-01

1. Multiplayer tracks have been updated
2. Cars and tracks have been updated for select events
3. Overall optimization & bug fixing

### 1.16.1 — 2019-01-16

Bug-fixing

### 1.16.0 — 2018-12-18

1) It’s time for a New Year competition! Every participant has an opportunity to receive a car as a New Year gift by simply racing and completing tasks. 
2) 3 new cars have been added. Check out your game to find out what new supercars are available now.

### 1.15.1 — 2018-11-13

- Facebook synching has been fixed
- Occassional disappearance of handbreak has been fixed
- Wellington GT & Wellington Halloween breaking momentum problem has been fixed
- Wellington GT & Wellington Halloween engine settings problem has been fixed
- Occassional problem which would not let players complete multiplayer race on - L.A.Block track has been fixed
- Problem saving settings on Chiioko and Rabe has been fixed

### 1.15.0 — 2018-10-26

Our truly spooky update of the year has a lot to offer:
- 8 web-covered vehicles & 3 old car upgrades but beware the witch spell when you start up the engine
- More wicked tracks with clipping points and zones
- So, if you're not scared, c'mon in and show everyone who runs the show.
- We keep fixing bugs you report.

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## More apps by CarX Technologies

- [CarX Drift Racing 2](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/carx-drift-racing-2/id1198510863)
- [CarX Highway Racing](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/carx-highway-racing/id1236730191)
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- [CarX Street](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/carx-street/id1458863319)
- [CarX Drift Racing 3](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/carx-drift-racing-3/id1569386864)

All apps by CarX Technologies: https://appshunter.io/developer/1179670377

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