Gun shooting Saudi drifting is brilliantly scary [video]

A smooth new asphalt motorway with a constant layer of blowing sand makes for great drifting conditions. As a result, a Saudi Arabian style of drifting has emerged in recent years and it is known as Hagwalah.

With little regard for surrounding traffic, practitioners of Hagwalah take their vehicles to the limits of control by drifting at high speeds from left curb to right.

Taken to the extreme, as seen in this video, Hagwalah passengers are seen hanging out of the windows during a high-speed session. It's also not uncommon to see them shooting automatic assault rifles into the air.

At 0:40 in the video, a Honda Accord is seen doing a 360 degree spin past a school bus filled with lots of people. Other front wheel drive vehicles seen Hagwalah-ing in the video include the Toyota Camry and Hyundai Sonata.

To quote a YouTube commenter, "Hagwalah is illegal and the people involved defy the police and government - a lot of them are actually in prison."

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 iLikeCars iLikeCars
Sth that Japanese drifters would even DREAM of Doing :p
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September 29, 2011 5:35 am
 Cootje Cootje
This should not be posted on WorldCarFans.com, by doing this you promote this lunatics, who should not be allowed to drive any car again. Secondly you make yourselves impopulair.
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September 29, 2011 5:38 am
 Hellbound Hellbound
This clip was posted on Jalopnik first (after Youtube!). I hate them, because people always post up racist/xenophobic crap. It's just an opportunity to hate a certain part of the world. Websites like WCF only do it because they generate a lot of web traffic. It's sensationalist rubbish. There are a lot of clips on youtube where stunts like this go terribly wrong and people die. We need a serious car industry insider website that rises above this sort of thing.
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September 29, 2011 6:17 am
 Mister Stig Mister Stig
Hellbound - I have been thinking about that exact idea. Not to sure how to go about it, and how to get decent traffic.... but I may give creating such a site a go!
September 29, 2011 7:09 am
 RODHA RODHA
You are right... Besides, I think they should be executed without question for the good of society...
September 29, 2011 11:31 am
 pumazooma pumazooma
That driver is a total arsehole. Doing that kind of lunatic driving next to a school bus and a tanker is staggeringly stupid. I hope the police catch him and put him away for a long time. It's not brilliantly scary. It's stupid and should not be on here.
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September 29, 2011 5:42 am
 Wojciech Wojciech
I'll try this on my way home today :) Just one question: is the gun obligatory? - I don't think I have any...
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September 29, 2011 5:48 am
 RAPTOR77 RAPTOR77
Where would you like something to do in Poland? I think the stretch of motorway A4 between Katowice and Gliwice, because that's where we sometimes even 4 lanes;-) As for weapons, you can use the rifle used in the ASG, but you will have to make noises with the mouth shots;-)
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September 29, 2011 7:08 am
 benz_man benz_man
There's a clip of a guy totaling his 745 while doing this. Made me laugh pretty hard!
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September 29, 2011 5:51 am
 ALMERAIKHI ALMERAIKHI
I don't recall this website posting such non-sense. I'd rather see car news not idiocy, or stereotype promotions.
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September 29, 2011 6:38 am
 ZHPRegistryNet ZHPRegistryNet
The site is simply whoring itself for more traffic so that can hang on the last bits of advertisement money. Maybe it's all of us that use AdBlock that are at fault here.
September 29, 2011 9:53 am
 dudeluk dudeluk
It is truly disappointing to find WCF posting sh*t like this. It may be impressive driving, but who gives a fvck when this is clearly abandoning any sense of reason. I'm a car nut through and through, but this is neither brilliant nor scary. Its just stupid!
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September 29, 2011 6:49 am
 Mister Stig Mister Stig
But of course we don't HAVE to watch these links.... Isnt that right Brian? Neither do we have to visit this site at all - and TBH the content here of late is making me wonder if I should keep bothering.
September 29, 2011 7:06 am
 RAPTOR77 RAPTOR77
Definitely not I would buy a used car from them ;-D
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September 29, 2011 7:09 am
 adz612 adz612
Neither big nor clever.
September 29, 2011 8:07 am
 benz_man benz_man
Geez ladies, pull your panties out of a twist. Its just a post. If you're not interested in it, DONT WATCH IT. Why lambaste Brian when you can simply not view the post?
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September 29, 2011 8:16 am
 911TT 911TT
This makes me want to puke. Utterly Disgusting.
September 29, 2011 8:18 am
 tumbo tumbo
I am shocked that this is posted here on WCF... Seriously? What were you thinking? Remove it before its too late.. This makes me want to puke!!
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September 29, 2011 8:19 am
 SV-maniac91 SV-maniac91
as i am saudi... i can surely tell u all that that school bus had no children in it at all... not one school in the whole country uses that bus as a school bus they use it in my country for workers... its still wrong but atleast their not children! and whats wrong if WCF posts this video im shocked from ur childish behavior... just how other countries have their way of drifting so does saudi... so all u haters can STFU!!
September 29, 2011 9:17 am
 Dude von Dudenstein Dude von Dudenstein
It's not because they are Saudi but because this kind of driving behaviour is extremely dangerous on public roads.
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September 29, 2011 11:19 am
 jerry05cod4 jerry05cod4
ppl you should lighten the f**k up...it relieves the stress of the day...having said that, i watched this at jalopnik a week ago and the 'stunt' these arseholes pulled is absolutely condemnable....but props to the driver (fpr his skills not his brain obviously), he must be professionally trained to control a fwd car like that!
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September 29, 2011 9:29 am
 kattanh3 kattanh3
Since when did WCF turned into a tabloid. This isn't the quality expected from WCF and it's not even news anymore, been posted elsewhere a while ago. I am from Saudi and I have to say, WCF just lost a rank or 2 in my book. On another note, our school busses look different. The typical yellow school busses are usually purchased cheaply from the US and shipped to Saudi to transport low-wage construction workers to/from work sites. And just so everybody know, this is not a common scenery, this lunacy is practiced in the far outskirts of couple of cities, typically with stolen cars and they are typically gay. Yup, ask anyone who can read arabic to read the stickers on the rear windshields. Word has it that they seat their "boys" in the back seats lol
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September 29, 2011 9:37 am
 PONTIAC G8 GXP PONTIAC G8 GXP
These guys should drive donkeys and camels, not cars. All of them are potential killers
September 29, 2011 10:15 am
 kayutr90 kayutr90
SV-maniac91 is right, those school bus never carries any children it's used for carrying workers. they are also playing Indian music some portion of the time.
September 29, 2011 11:30 am
 BrianWCF BrianWCF
Thanks for all of the honest feedback everyone. I really appreciate it! The reality of the situation is that WCF is an internet magazine whose goal is to reach as many people as possible. Some may say that WCF is "selling out" and that's fine but we're not rock stars. We are a small internet business trying to survive in the most balanced way we know. As Mister Stig mentioned above, if the story doesn't interest you, please move along to the next. If this is not good enough, you're free to never come back to WCF as well, although that's not what we want. However, survival of the fittest is in full effect here, and WCF needs to be as competitive as ever. As some comments mentioned above, many of you visit several car news sites in addition to WCF. We can't be so naive or full of ourselves to believe that WCF is the only automotive destination that you visit. So we have to try and be as competitive as we can and these types stories is an area where we are weakest compared to our competitors. When the WCF redesign is launched, which is very soon, this issue will be addressed as all "Auto Trash" category stories will be removed from the main news headlines so those who do not wish to see them don't have to. As unrealistic as it may be, we're trying our best to satisfy everyone.
September 29, 2011 11:45 am
 vilivo vilivo
That is just wrong... I say, keep putting things up like that and let the public decide if they are going to check it out. The fact that they are commenting means they looked at it and it got their attention. Perhaps the fact that they watchd it upset them, but the article states what is on there, so read 1st, then decide if ur gonna watch it. I think its more about feeling bad that they are interested in the topic, not so much about being upset that it is here. If ur gonna move these to another ategory, I suggest naming it something funky, because auto trash would be wrong- some of us like to watch these, shake our heads at how silly people can be and move on. Dont let a few panzies put you off adding a lot of content. If U go down that road, w are soon going to have 1-2 articles per day AT MOST. I say, bring the articles and to hell with the haters.
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October 1, 2011 2:40 am
 BrianWCF BrianWCF
Thanks for the correction about the school bus everyone. Article has been edited.
September 29, 2011 12:09 pm
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