Kaan.H (MR2maniac)

Who are the Kanjozoku? The Kanjozoku are a group of people who race exclusively civics and the occasional integra on the Kanjo Loop in Osaka. In the map shown below the Kanjo is the oval in the middle. They are also regarded as some of the original founders of “JDM” car culture.

What is the Touge? Tōge or touge is the Japanese word for pass and references any small and twisty mountain roads. Misconceptions Due to the increase in popularity of the manga and anime Initial D touge street racing has been highly referenced to drifting when the aim of touge racing is not to drift around corners but to grip and get through the touge as fast as possible. Types of Touge races Cat and Mouse

In an episode of Initial D first stage Bunta get’s a call from Keiichi Tsuchiya and he goes on to say “You scarred me for life with your monstrous drift.” . Now what if Bunta is real? Now I’m not saying he’s called Bunta Fujiwara and all the Initial D stuff but from that phone conversation it is implied that Bunta taught Tsuchiya how to drift and that he is indeed more skilled than him. So what if there is a legendary street racer very few people know that cannot be beaten?

Two versions of this car were built, one with rear wheel drive and one with Xtrac four wheel drive. Three different engines were tested: a 2.1L 503E LeMans GTP engine, a 2.1L 4T-GTE from a Celica TCT and an unknown V6. Power was roumered to be 600HP all round and up to 750HP available. The weight of the RWD variant was claimed to be 750KG which paired with 750HP would give this an astonishing 1:1 power to weight ratio. 11 prototypes were roumered to have been built, with most destroyed during crash tests leaving only 3 left a white and 2 blacks.

What does JDM mean? JDM stands for Japanese Domestic Market and is used to refer to anything made in Japan for the Japanese market and the Japanese Market only and there are constant misconseptions. These days what people refer to as a “JDM car” isn’t really JDM.