You bring up some great points, especially with the cops.
If you have a truck (or heavier vehicle such as the Charger or an SUV) in the game, you should be able to take cars out fairly quickly (without needing an upgrade for it). I mean the cops have the rhinos that take more damage out of your car, but the heavier cars you buy don't do that kind of damage.
The drifting definitely needs attention. I have been messing around with parts, tuning, and different set ups in cars but can't seem to get that perfect match on drifting style I like (which you mentioned the inertia drifting which allows chain/link drifting which I have used in other NFS games and it was beautiful.
Pink slips is a great idea, also to include crew domains and dominance. Bringing back one on one drag races would be great too.
Not sure why they took out the "Perfect", "Good", and "Poor" starts at the beginning of races (which also added to the realism of driving).
I am very happy to see off road races added to the mix though, but would really enjoy seeing night racing for this, especially since you can equip runner light bars on the offroad vehicles (it would make more sense).
There are issues, but overall I do enjoy this game.
Great ideas though.
