If Initial D took place in 2016 America takumi would drive

the series would end after the first episode where takumi finds himself rolled over in a ditch because yanks cant drive

Us version of dagumi would be a pizza delivery boy of his parents or fathers pizza shop
he can deliver anywhere in the large county in under 30 mins or less but the county is a bunch of mountain roads in the middle of nowhere
he borrows his dads ecoboost mustang :^) to deliver pizzas

>>14235165
No way dude cmon

>>14235165
Tbh I feel like it should pander more to the highway system.

Like he's a 2am pizza boy with his dad's foxbody making 400whp and he shits all over late night highway dragsters. They never know who he is. Maybe involve the police idk

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Pizza delivery seems to be a common idea.

I don't think Mustang fits to be honest

>>14235228
Yeah, the equivalent the the 86 should be more of an underdog car; something unassuming yet functional.

>>14235250
That's why I thought neon srt4
It's pretty decent but nobody ever respects it or cares about it aside from select people
It has some racing fame
It's basically just an upscale econobox like the ae86

>>14235228
Why not? A Foxbody is almost an American version of the AE86.

>blocky, wedge-shaped 80's box on wheels with a mid-generation facelift
>2 door coupe and 3 door hatchback variants
>a bunch of different trims, only the top level is actually desirable (5.0 GT, 4A-GE GT-S/GT-APEX)
>live rear axle
>huge following to this day
>not all that great stock at all
>primarily used for one thing (Foxbodies for straight line speed/drag machines, Corollas for DORIFUTOOOO)
>still popular thirty years after its end of production

>>14235250
To be fair, in the US we don't really HAVE 'underdog cars.' Japan loves taking one car- Corolla, Skyline, Civic, what have you- and making a bunch of different versions of it: four door sedan, five door wagon, two door coupe with performance-oriented variants, etc. In the States it's usually always been a manufacturer has dedicated shitboxes and dedicated higher end models/sports cars, no overlap other than the special snowflakes like the Regal T-type or Hurst/Olds Cutlasses.

>>14235270
The foxbody is too old and already a sports car
It's more than just
>what usdm car looks most like an old corolla and is rwd

>>14235212
Sounds like wangan midnight kinda

The problem with the American drag muscle car version
Is the fact that it boils down to just hp numbers
>>14235223
So with this that mustang would have to be heavily modified so it kinda looses the appeal of dagumi outskilling his appointments with a less powerful car

>>14235250
Foxbody is very much an underdog. The chassis is absolute garbage for corners without serious modification.

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>>14235273
If you bend the rules a little you could use a Chrysler Conquest TSI

>>14235441
boosting at 150 mph
check rear view warrior
pizza delivery sign closing fast

>instead of the overflow of S13s among the rookie racers, F-bodies are commonplace
>Impact Blue's Sileighty is replaced by a Transmaro

>>14235503
> Hit the juice
> Mustang walks past you
> Driver doesn't even look at you
> Contemplate how small you really are

Why not put the biggest displacement engine in a van

>>14235115
A modern American Takumi would drive an early 2000s Ford Focus RS in the hills around Los Angeles.

Prove me wrong.

you can't

>>14235898
>not an ancient shitbox

>>14235898
>focus rs
>early 2000s

>>14235909
You're too stupid to live
Late 90s is the oldest a takumi car can be

>>14235898
He'd drive an AMC Gremlin

>>14235917
Bullshit. It's got to be a foxbody.

>>14235503
I want this so badly for some reason.

This whole idea sounds like a foreign idea abortion like American Top Gear versus the original.

>>14235938
>it's got to be a foxbody
No. That's fucking stupid.

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>>14235911
Ok, a Focus SVT ZX3.

>>14235917
Initial D started in 1995 with 'an aging Sprinter Trueno' that was on sale starting in 1983 and ending in 1987. That puts it from 8-13 years, which the Focus SVT ZX3 fits perfectly. Plus, hatchback, four-cylinder, pair it up with some shitty beat down pizza/chinese place and an angsty teenager listening to electro music and you have a winning combo.

>>14235962
Dumbass

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>>14235115
Not a bad shout, but it'd be nice to fit rwd in there somewhere. Not because of which is "better", but because struggling to control oversteer is a lot more interesting to watch than struggling to control understeer.

I agree that the Mustang just wouldn't be quite right though, somehow. We want something light, nimble, often overlooked and down on power.

Why can't he have a Fiero?

>>14237613
Nice reply

set in the 80s (because the fucking 80s that's why).
Half asian kid's father owns tofu store outside L.A. he has to deliver tofu to restaurants and individuals up in the hills (this gives city driving and mountain passes)

mid 70s pontiac lemans with de smogged 455.

There would be other street racing gangs, and two cops on motorcyles that chased him. One of the cops would be a mexican-american.

>>14237682
That's actually brilliant.
>>14237743
I think you did.

>>14237820
Fuck off
>>14237682
This makes no sense
It'd make more sense for fiero to take the place of the mr2 kids

>>14235115
No, it'd be a Foxbody
>solid rear end
>pitiful HP stock
>blocky design
>performance-void performance icon

>>14237867
No it wouldnt, holy shit what is wrong with you people .

I think foxbody makes the mist sense.

>>14237905
It doesn't

>>14237905
It'd need handling and brake mods, but I could see it working. Or a mustang SVO would be cool.

>>14237820
Ide watch it

>>14237931
A foxbody would not fit

This is what happens when FF tries to compete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z2oZAkWQeM

>>14237945
Why wouldn't it? It's cheap, it's old, it's an underdog in modern times, it's kinda shit stock, and it has a lot of visual variants like aero eye and four eye, notch and hatch, etc.

>>14237965
Because it's fucking 2016 not 2004 and takumi using that to race is the equivalent of using a chevelle in initial d or a 280zx
You're going for superficial elements and not the actual spirit of the car

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>>14237873
I think the Fox body is the best suggestion so far. It fits the exact description of the hachiroku, minus the engine. What's wrong with it? Ford is closer to being American toyota than any other of the big 3.

I however nominate the AMC Spirit GT
>lightweight
>N/A V8
>people tune the suspension and engine a fuck ton
>breaks traction quite easily
>used a lot in racing
I was tempted to say the Spirit GL Kammback because it had an I4 and I6 available, but it's just not sporty enough.

>>14237978
What is the spirit of the car supposed to be?

>>14237965
>t's an underdog in modern times,
eh? ever been to a drag racing circuit. The fox body is in no way an underdog, if you have ever held a wrench, you know the foxbody has a huge aftermarket and is one of the goto cars for cheap power.

The wierd thing is, i can't think of many american made cars that were practical, near entry level and handled at all well or had power options.

Never mind I've got.. Eagle SX4 he has to deliver tofu to people in denver during snow storms!.. or maybe just the eagle spirit amx in dry conditions.

>>14237978
The spirit of the car is cheap and forgotten no? As far as the actual age of the car, well its alot cheaper to have an old car in the united states than in japan. So I think the actual age of the car is not that important.

>>14237985
That's AMX* my bad

Also, Toyota had several other sports cars, but the 86 was basically a corolla hatchback with some performance tuning. Similarly, AMC has the javelin and AMX gremlin (much bigger V8 available than the spirit), and the spirit is part of their economy lineup, with the AMX being its performance variant.

Takumi (would be named something like Tyler, Ikutsuki would be Ian, seeing as how they are all slightly less common names) would definitely deliver pizzas, I can't think of a better parallel.

>>14238004
If you think th foxbody is forgotten you've been on 4chan too long a
And it's not famous in that ae86 way plenty of people know what it is and nobody thinks it's an underdog

Plus it's too old
You guys are just going for rwd and 80s wedge

Are we looking for a car to fulfill an adaption of the twisty road idea, or
>>14235212
The highway racing idea?
If it was 2016, it would need to be a 10 year old shitbox from an American brand, with low entry costs and a high ceiling for modification.

An s197 mustang makes the most sense I think, for both categories. A foxbody is just too old.

>>14237925
Maybe it doesnt make sense if you're autistic.

>>14238334
Only autist here is you

>>14237985
Why wouldn't >>14235962 work?

>>14237993
Well yeah, but those are modified to hell. Nobody would expect a mostly stock fox to do well on mountain roads.

>>14238535
It's literally too old

>>14235273
>ford escort

>>14238549
I didn't know there was an age requirement.
>>14237965 describes it pretty well.

>>14238566
It's too old

>>14238577
Why is there an age requirement?

>>14238588
Why wouldn't there be

remember me baby

>>14235223
>2005 Mustang
>not 1985 Foxbody
Come on, that's the most similar with the AE86. Everything else is solid

Foxbody works because itsuki could get an escort gt thinking it was a foxbody like how he confused the ae86 with the 85

>>14240300
>>14240274
You people are stupid wrong

>>14240317
Why are they wrong?
>>14240300
Itsuki could just get a 4 cylinder fox.

Mustang doesn't fit because people expect it them to be fast, it should be a presumably average car


Unless it has to be RWD, I think a standard cavalier would be good

>>14240416
give him a fucking Crown Vic then

>>14237985
>>14237931
It would have to be either the SVO or a GTturbo. You could always go the more American route and use a turbo Cougar or Thunderbird as well.

>>14240300
The SVO or GTturbo works in this case as he'd just get your average 4 cylinder.

Gotta be something RWD and driftable, because you're not winning a highway race as an underdog. So the exact opposite of our mindset back in the late 80's. Foxbody works pretty good, because they're kinda crap without mods like the 86 is. But then again the whole mystique of the 86 arose after ID, while this version would be launching at a time when everyone knows the Fox is one of the cheapest ways to go fast.

>>14240416
Except most mustangs aren't fast stock, they have to made fast.

FFS Foxbody GT mustangs put out less than 200 at the wheel.

This is fucking common knowledge.

Make him drive a fucking G-Body from the 80's. Some years and models had just 10 horses more then the 86 did, and thats with the largest V8 available. The suspension was as apathetic as a McDonalds worker at 3am. Though they looked pretty damn slick.


I have fifty '85 Cutlasses I need to sell, so some weeaboo deception would really help.

>>14237985
I was scrolling down this thread thinking about the AMC Spirit. That would be a pretty cool hero car.

Also think the SVO would work. I can't think of any underdog RWD cars from the 90s or early 00s. Most cars from the mid-80s to now are FWD, and the RWD cars are all well known.

All of you are wrong
American!Takumi would drive a PT Cruiser
>old shitbox
>universally hated
>comes in several performance trims
>hatchback

>>14240530
>ae86
>universally hated

what

>>14240530
But the 86 was known as a good car for the mountains at the start of ID, just outclassed by current machines. Itsuki was saving up for one even during the first episode. If I had a friend who was saving money for a PT Cruiser I'd call a fucking medical journal, because I'd have just found a new form of mental retardation.

>>14235115
Foxbod or Conquest

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>>14237693
>>14237704
>>14237723
>>14237727
>>14237732
>>14237739
What the fuck is this shit?

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What else?

>based on a shitty car
>kinda cute
>terrible reputation and highly underrated
>deceptively fast

No hektik skidz though, so Japanese-American Timothy Fujikawa would have to play the grip battle.

>>14235115
>American Initial D
>Initial Drag
>Volumes of "Tommy" at the drag strip with his friend "Kevin"
kek

Does America have any RWD 4-bangers aside from the Fiero?

>>14240607
The neon fits the best. I have no idea why people are suggesting foxbody or other 80s sports cars
Those make no sense, Neon fits.

>>14240676
Why wouldn't a foxbody make sense?

>>14240676
Because RWD.

>>14240684
Because that's an actual sports car and it's a fucking classic car at that point
It's too God damn old and isn't an underdog
>>14240686
This is the only explanation. Everyone is autistic over rwd

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>>14235165
Why not SVO?

>>14240703
>autistic over RWD

Initial D is mostly drifting jackass, and that's what Takumi does in every single race.

And controlling oversteer is much more fun to watch than understeer.

>>14240729
OK so you don't know a lot I see.

>>14240728
Jesus christ /o/

Why wouldn't takumi drive a small US domestic pickup/SUV?

>RWD
>not expected to be fast
>it's still a capable delivery vehicle

>>14240744
American version of takumi, I mean.

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>old
>RWD
>underrated
>lightweight

Are you fuckers serious? HE WOULD DRIVE A FUCKING CHEVETTE!

>>14240703
>fucking classic car at that point
And the 86 isn't?
>actual sports car
No normal person would look at a fox bod and consider it a sports car just like how everyone thought the 86 was a shitbox in Initial D

>>14240761
hooly fuck yes

>>14235165
I will order a pizza to alaska.. :3

and it will be a prank call since im in hawaii

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>>14235115
Sit down nerds.
Mercury Capri coming through

>>14240768
>86 isn't
The ae86 wasn't over 30 fucking years old in initial d
The foxbody is too much of a sports car and too God damn old
God DAMN it get over your 80s styling

>>14240789
>The ae86 wasn't over 30 fucking years old in initial d
AE86
>Production May 1983[1]–1987
Ford Mustang (third generation)
>Production 1978–1993
lmao ok

>>14240797
Your post makes no sense

What's your point
Why are you shilling for Mustang so hard ?
Even just Mustang alone automatically disqualifies the foxbody because it's too much of a sports car
The ase86 is just a sporty trim of corolla

>>14240813
>Your post makes no sense
You said the AE86 wasn't 30 years old in initial D and the foxbody is too old, yet they are of similar ages and Initial D takes place in the late 90s/early 2000s so neither would be 30 years old.
>Why are you shilling for Mustang so hard ?
The same could be said for you, why are you shilling for the Neon so hard? I don't even like mustangs desu kek

>>14240835
OH so you didn't read the OP?
>initial d in 2016

Why doesn't America make cheap FR cars besides the Moostang

>>14240840
The OP was retarded. Obviously everyone here is offering suggestions to the original years of initial D. If you can't use contextual clues, then I don't know what to tell you.

Seriously he suggested a fucking neon, it was b8. We just wanted to speculate about something that makes sense.

>>14240910
Just go away man
You're embarrassing yourself

>>14240928
Look at the suggestions in the thread
No one cares about the OP. I'm not even the guy you initially were talking to. You're just ridiculously autistic if you're bringing up 2016 when everyone clearly doesn't give a shit
A fucking neon? L M A O famiglia
Are you OP? You sure are a faggot regardless

Forget drag, and forget the idea that the cars all have to be domestics. The US is full of imports, one of the best things about an American version of Initial D would be international diversity in cars. Here's my take:

The main character lives in the west San Fernando valley, and delivers pizzas to houses in the Santa Monica mountains and the coast on the other side of them. His father was one of the old Mulholland racers.

He drives an E36 M3 with a lightly tuned US-spec motor and decent suspension work. I think the E36 fits the bill well, it's the right age, right relative performance compared to newer cars, RWD, and is the performance model of a very common car in the area. The motor gets replaced with a built euro-spec motor when he blows the first one up.

Itsuki gets a 325i when he buys a car.

Iketani and Kenji drive 4th gen Mustangs.

>Akagi gets replaced by GMR.

The Takahashi brothers drive Porsches. Those seem like appropriate cars for rich enthusiast kids, especially since one is becoming a doctor, and the relative performance is about right. Keisuke's is a 997 or 991 GT3, Ryousuke's is a 964 or 993. Both are heavily tuned.

Kenta drives a 5th gent Mustang.

>Myogi becomes Angeles Crest.

Nakazato drives a GDB STI

Shingo drives an 8th gen Civic SI.

>Not sure which other roads to use for what.

I'm torn about Impact Blue, another Mustang would make sense but I don't know how I feel about it. How about an S2000?

Emperor still drive Evos, just newer ones.

Kai drives an early Elise, which gets replaced by a new Exige when he returns later in the series.

Bunta buys a Focus RS to replace the E36.

Most of the Hondas in the series are replaced by newer versions. God Hand's S2000 stays an S2000.

God Foot drives an R35

That one RWD R34 becomes an E92 M3

Miatas also stay Miatas.

The Supra becomes a Viper ACR.

S15s become brand new Mustangs.

>>14235918
Great choice

>>14240987
This.

America has the most automotive diversity in the world. The only problem is the straights:touge ratio.

>>14240999
That's why I made it SoCal. We have dozens of great twisty mountain roads around here. There are as many packed into the one small region near Malibu as in the whole Initial D series.

>>14240961
Instead of acting like a salty loser, you could be >>14240987 instead

>>14241068
Listen, man, I don't care. I was just letting you know that you're wrong. Sorry you're having so much trouble with that. Usually people just accept the fuck up and move on.

>>14241078
Grow up Kido.
>>14240987
My concern is that base e36 isn't really much of an underdog , nobody shit talks it , M3 even less so

>>14241078
i think the fact you're so anti neon is points towards it being the takumi car

>>14241096
Compared to more modern stuff it is, though.

The AE86 was a credible performance car of its time as well, with a lot of motorsports history and stuff, but it was just underpowered and outdated by the time of Initial D. The E36 is kind of the same way, it's slow as hell compared to newer AWD sports sedans and the like.

It's hard to come up with a direct comparison, since modern direct equivalents of the 86 are basically worthless as performance cars, the E36 was the closest I could come, and the only one that I think has a reasonable chance of beating the opposition.

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>>14235165
Nah senpai he drives a Merkur XR4ti

>>14235273
>>14241341

it would be a ~2000 ford crown victoria

yes it's a heavy piece of shit, but it filled the same market segment in the US that the ae86 did in japan. reliable, affordable by every middle class household and reasonable to hand down to your son. a neon srt4 would never work, it's FWD. sure it's probably faster than the crown vic, but the point is that there's no reason to even tune an FWD shitbox. at least with a crown vic you could just put a stupidly large motor in there or something, and then there's the added element of basically wrangling a car that's poorly balanced and unfriendly to drive. an SRT4 is a better performing car than the crown victoria but it's not a "better" car than a crown victoria in a more holistic sense, and that's really what the ae86 in initial D represents (at least in the first stage).

foxbody mustang would also be an acceptable answer, but only because it would be so old that his father would have bought it used. it absolutely would make sense for a car that Jaden (the most likely american name for takumi) would drive, but if his father could afford a new mustang they wouldn't be living basically on the edge of poverty

>>14241401
>man fwd is shit
>better buy a land barge
Because rwd= better than fwd no exception
Just fuck yourself anon

>>14241643
pls don't rely to b8 posts report and hide

>>14241643
Depends if you want to drift or not

>>14240987
M3 is too good of a car. Its the ultimate driving machine (TM) for gods sake, and I dont think American Bunta could have afforded one when it was new. Though an E36 would be good. An E30 might be better, because its pretty much the German 86 (at least from where we're looking now). Same era, roughly the same power, not that quick, but it handles good and likes skids. Plus its a hell of a lot better looking then then the E36. Itsuki buys a 324d, thinking its faster then Takumi's 318i cause larger numbers. Throw in some catfish Camaros to replace some of the generic Silvia drivers or Impact Blue. The Cappucino is a tuned Suzuki Aveo or a Kia shitbox to elicit the same "Are you fucking kidding me?" reaction. Im thinking Bunta should buy an AWD German car that isnt a bimmer, so Takumi can still think "Holy fuck this thing is better then my car in every single way."

Other then that, very good.

>>14241672
E30 is too old
The cappu can be like that time attack suzuku swift / geo metro

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oUQk24VBF4s

>>14241691
The E36 is just so ugly though. WAT Animation Development would have to work their asses off to make that interesting to look at.

Though that Swift would be perfect.

gayest shit

Can someone post the picture of the guy with cool glasses with his gtr on side of hill. He has 1 foot on his car back bumper

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>>14243984
Got you fampai

>>14240761
THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS

>>14235898
it would never be around los angeles. it would be in the pacific northwest if it were on the west coast-- but it would never be on a coast. it would be somewhere along the rust belt.

>>14235115
I deliver pizza and drive a neon. On all levels but physical I am takumi.


It's clear to me that the people ITT are not on the same page. A foxbody would be great for an initial d set in America at the same time as the original show, because it would be 13 years old and going up against 4th gen camaros and trans ams. It's an underdog because of age.

For an American show set in 2016 the srt4 i think is pretty comparable to the ae86 because it's 10 years out of date and looks like a shitbox.


The problem is none of this would work at all because there's nowhere to drift and no American cars are particularly good at it anyway so it would be drag races that would just come down to numbers.

>>14235115
Takumi world drive a dodge RAM 1500
He would deliver moonshine in Tennessee
Itsuki would buy a Dakota v6 thinking it was a RAM

>>14244094
>On all levels but physical I am takumi.
Got some bad news about your girlfriend bro

>>14244175
2nd gen Dakota rt for takumi

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>>14244209
I learned from Takumi's mistake and bagged myself a satsuki when the oppurtunity came. Satsuki is her name right? the best girl navigator in the sileighty? My gf is near identical in looks and personality.

Oh god. It's kind of sick really. I actually based my occupation and gf off of a shitty Japanese cartoon about cars. I never really realized how pathetic it was.

>>14244257
You have a tittymonster gf, but drive a Neon. Things could be much worse.

>>14244257
Lucky you

>>14235115
>fwd
Yeh, but instead of all the awesome touge drift action it would just be drag racing at the lights lel

>>14244094
>what are mountain roads

>>14244367
Kill urself kid

>>14244257
Sayuki*

>>14240987
Change god hands s2k to snek i think it fits a bit better

>>14246064
Snek is way too powerful to be an S2K equivalent.