This year marks the 30th anniversary of Shuichi Shigeno's massively popular street racing manga, Initial D. The series centers on the life of Takumi Fujiwara, a high school student who digs ...

In the upcoming New Initial D the Movie: Legend 2 – Racer our hero, Takumi, revs his unassuming AE86 (a Toyota Sprinter Trueno) to prove that he is the best racer on Mount Akina’s treacherous highway.

Some fictional cars are so entrenched in the public imagination that their iconography transcends make and model. A bright-orange Dodge Neon with “01” painted on its door is obviously cosplaying as ...