I'm not sure if the same tires come on the NTC3 as with the electric TC3, but the stock e-TC3 ones are pretty grippy to me. They are certainly not the best but they have too much traction for drifting. Certainly you can force them to drift, but you really have to build up speed to break the wheels free. With PVC you can hit the throttle from a standstill and almost instantly be in a slow, controlled drift. I would really recommend getting an extra set of wheels to mount PVC to. I have rubber tires and drift tires, so I can be zipping around a parking lot at 40+mph then switch to drifting in about a minute.