The grassroots motorsports world owes a debt of gratitude to younger gearheads, including—gasp!—the drift scene. Without these much-maligned enthusiasts, the fantastic new Scion FR-S and its fraternal twin, the Subaru BRZ, may have never seen the light of day.
By the new millennium, the flingable, affordable cars that were so common in the 1980s had all but disappeared. Even the …