The Toyota GT86 Initial D Concept Is An Awesome Car-Based Manga Celebration
Arguably, the old Toyota AE86 is most famous for one thing: its starring role in Japanese manga series Initial D, in which main character Takumi Fujiwara belted around mountain roads on tofu delivery duties. Unsurprisingly, the original car’s famous black and white livery has been used on numerous examples of the GT86 - the AE86’s spiritual successor - worldwide, and now even Toyota itself has gotten in on the action.
The Japanese manufacturer’s UK arm has created this brilliant one-off ‘Toyota GT86 Initial D Concept’, and the attention to detail is extraordinary. Yes, the livery is spot on, but all the little details are correct too, thanks to modern versions of the Initial D AE86’s components being added.
There are custom-made RS Watanabe rims, Sportivo suspension from TRD, a Fujitsubo exhaust, Cusco strut brace and a caronfibre bonnet. Look carefully, and you’ll see fog lights with a yellow tint in a nod to the Cibié spotlights on Takumi’s AE86, and Toyota GB has even painted the engine cover silver to make it look a little more like the old 4A-GE.
The GT86’s standard boot spoiler has been ditched, mudflaps have been added, and the rear light clusters tinted.
Best of all though, Toyota commissioned UK-based manga artist Sonia Leong - who previously worked with the company on the Aygo Manga project - to create a set of magnificent drawings featuring the car and Takumi’s AE86.
Since they look so spectacular, we’ve added them all here with the optional of a wallpaper-friendly high-res download for each.
Want to see the car in the metal? It’ll be shown at various car shows throughout the UK this summer.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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I know the guy who designed the car and got it all together it was so cool seeing the final product and the pictures too
please… DO IT!
First three are high-res, last three low-res.
“added them all here with […] high-res download”
Right now I’m like this:
Definitely should consider making this a special edition like the BRZ Yellow. I’d pay to see it in action, and pay more to own one.
They really do! But, would they be able to get the copyright rights to be able to produce it? It’s super cool, and would be an incredibly awesome special edition that is guaranteed to increase in value over time.
That said, it’s also a perfect ride for when Tak would have taken over the tofu shop and have a kid of his own running deliveries. (I’d be guessing that if he was about 20 in the mid 90’s, then by the time he would have settled down, and had a kid, woulda been mid to late 2000’s, so by the time that the GT86 would be “an old beater” like the AE86 was, would be the same time as his kid would be getting old enough to be using it to deliver tofu.
Please tell me that there will be a new stage for initial D!!!
BUILD IT! NOW!
needs japanese plates superimposed on top
This is amazing!!!!! :D :D :D
Just needs a red interior, Italvolanti steering wheel and 3SGE BEAMS swap (considered as the modern 4AGE and more powerful than the stock FA boxer) to be spot on!
I never saw the anime
Never was much of a JDM guy (muscle ftw)
but still
WANT
It’s still great to watch, at least watch a few episodes