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Anime is a good way to trigger any car guy. I mean, why do you have Japanese cartoon girls on the sides of you Mustang? Maybe an S2000 with Miku on the sides is okay, but what about a Tofu Delivery drift machine that's not a Toyota?
Tofu Delivery obviously refers to the car in the legendary manga (comic) and anime Initial D. Not everybody knows that it was an AE86 Trueno, but most at least associate it with the Toyota brand.
Without the popular TV series, Toyota may not have had the incentive to develop the Toyobaru/GT 86 project. The world would be a little sadder, but that doesn't mean we'd be left without a drift car.
You see, the Initial D manga was published from 1995, but by that time, the first-generation MX-5 was already a household name, having been introduced in 1989. And unlike Toyota, Mazda never stopped making its awesome little roadster.
The modern 86 and the Miata have a lot of things in common. They're both no-nonsense machines, currently offered with 2-liter engines that aren't turbocharged. And with 6-speed manual gearboxes sending power to the back wheels, you are very much in charge of your own destiny.
One NA Miata owner decided to make an even deeper connection happen by adapting the Tofu Delivery white and black livery on his car. It's also got a widebody kit, coilovers, and is kitted with the "HDMI" exhaust from the Honda Civic Si. You can't hook up a monitor back there, but it certainly looks the part.
In case you forgot the story, Takumi, the hero of Initial D, develops his racing skills to be one of the fastest drivers in the Kanto prefecture while driving his dad's old Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86, hence the famous livery. He manages to defeat his opponents using risky moves he picked up while delivering tofu for five years. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Without the popular TV series, Toyota may not have had the incentive to develop the Toyobaru/GT 86 project. The world would be a little sadder, but that doesn't mean we'd be left without a drift car.
You see, the Initial D manga was published from 1995, but by that time, the first-generation MX-5 was already a household name, having been introduced in 1989. And unlike Toyota, Mazda never stopped making its awesome little roadster.
The modern 86 and the Miata have a lot of things in common. They're both no-nonsense machines, currently offered with 2-liter engines that aren't turbocharged. And with 6-speed manual gearboxes sending power to the back wheels, you are very much in charge of your own destiny.
One NA Miata owner decided to make an even deeper connection happen by adapting the Tofu Delivery white and black livery on his car. It's also got a widebody kit, coilovers, and is kitted with the "HDMI" exhaust from the Honda Civic Si. You can't hook up a monitor back there, but it certainly looks the part.
In case you forgot the story, Takumi, the hero of Initial D, develops his racing skills to be one of the fastest drivers in the Kanto prefecture while driving his dad's old Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86, hence the famous livery. He manages to defeat his opponents using risky moves he picked up while delivering tofu for five years. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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