It's ugly, it's tired and it smells like burnt rubber. It's also one of the most fun cars we've driven in any shoot.

Some cars are bought. Some are restored. And some are simply used, over and over and over again, by strangers, until there's almost nothing left of them, and not in a ride share or taxi kind of a way.

Out in the middle of nowhere in the Mojave Desert, you'll find Apple Valley Speedway, and there you'll find a small drift school called Drift Zone, operating at the former go-kart track, now drift circuit and drift pad. They have several Nissan 350Zs; specifically, the ones we drove, I believe, were from 2003. This is the perfect car to get started in drifting.

This was my first time drifting, and I'll be honest, I'm not a drifter, but I had an absolute blast. It was easy to get up to speed and easier to not worry about breaking anything, because nothing seemingly worked.

This is because the cars are beat up worse than most UFC fighters, as anyone can show up and pay 25 bucks a lap once you prove you kinda know what to do and you're not gonna be too much of a liability. So they're not in the best condition. My car's steering wheel was on crooked, which, as a drift car, doesn't matter, but it always drives me insane. The seatbelts are a bit iffy, and frankly, you don't have the most confidence that if you are in some kind of a crash, you're gonna come out in one piece. But it doesn't matter, 'cause you're having too much fun.

I can't really review the car when it comes to the exterior, interior or looks, because these things look like they have been dropped from a crane, set on fire and used as a stunt car for movie wrecks, all in the same afternoon. Nothing in the car works. You don't have a speedometer. The rev limiter is iffy at best. The brakes are not the most reliable, and the tires are so worn from the drifting that even if you wanted to try and put a hot lap together, you're gonna be finding the barriers, 'cause it's like you're driving on ice. Getting them to spin around on rubber that's been worn down by dozens of hours of first-time drifters means that you have less grip than Bambi on ice.

These cars have 287 hp and do 0 to 60 in about 5 1/2 to 6 seconds. However, on this track and in a drift configuration, you're never getting out of third gear. They're easy to learn, easy to manipulate and definitely easy to spin out completely. But at the same time, people who have never touched one of these cars or a track before can get an entire lap sideways by the end of the day, if they know what they're doing.

In any normal review, this is the part where I'd tell you it's a terrible car. It has no speedometer, the brakes are a rumor and the seatbelts are more of a suggestion. If you saw one for sale on Craigslist, you'd report the listing. However, this car has more character in a single washer, than most car I've driven costing 10 times as much as this.

This 350Z doesn't care that it's broken. It doesn't care that it's been thrown sideways by a thousand strangers who had no idea what they were doing. You get in, you turn the key, and it just wants to go sideways again.

Would I buy one? For anything other than to trash it drifting, absolutely not. Would I drive one again? Tomorrow. And that, in the end, is the only review that matters.