Japanese Girl Gets Behind the Wheel of an RX-7 Demo Car, Enjoys Drifting It 17 Mar 2021, 18:04 UTC ·
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It s no secret that the Japanese tuning industry has been going through a tough time over the past decade, with so many people these days opting for cheaper Chinese manufactured parts. Even so, the hardcore JDM fans and most of the petrolheads living in Japan still support the industry, which means more great content for us to watch. 11 photos
Japanese people have a fascinating way of going about their business, as you ll see most tuning companies building an impressive demo car and then bringing on a pro driver to test it. Depending on the type of company, you ll either see that car being driven hard during a time attack event, or a drift event, or sometimes over on the touge, as we have frequently seen in the Hot Version videos.
I first came across the Initial D series back in 2008, back when it was still on the air. Even though it originally aired in 1995, it took me 13 years to discover it. And it hit me so hard that I could only think of how much I wanted to go to Japan and experience the mountain passes while driving a JDM icon like the Mazda RX-7 or the Corolla AE86.
Initial D to Real Life, Aussie Man Drives Toyota Corolla AE86 and Mazda RX-7 FC 13 Mar 2021, 13:29 UTC ·
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I ve probably watched the whole series at least two or three times so far, and I feel like I m already overdue for the fourth viewing. The fact that I ended up buying and building an FC RX-7 probably has some roots in watching the series in the first place. Even though my car comes in Brilliant Black, it still has the same soul and feeling like the White Comet of Akagi, which was driven by Takahashi Ryosuke in the original series.
autoevolution 3 Mar 2021, 17:17 UTC ·
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If you re going to ask different people about how they first came to admire the Toyota Corolla AE86, you re bound to get a variety of answers. But there s a rather large group of them that will answer Initial D right away. The famous Japanese anime popularized the Hachi-Roku , which translates to 8-6, thanks to the fact that the main character in the series was driving a black and white Panda Trueno. 31 photos
If you haven t seen the series yourself, I can only say that the main character, Takumi, drives an AE86 on the mountain passes of Japan, racing against other highly-modified Japanese vehicles. He manages to win over and over again, even though everyone initially looks down upon him. This is how the myth has been propelled on a global scale, and many professional drifters will tell you that they ve been following Initial D too.