What would an american takumi drive?

He would drive an ae86.
Cuz they were sold in america too.
But would probably say burger delivery on the side

The 86 was more ecomocly desinged than the 5.0 mustang.
The 86 had way better handling than the mustang.
A 2.0L Manta would be way closer in performance and handling.

but the Manta wasn't sold in the US

this right here

If amercan Takumi lived in a american military base in germany, he could have been driving it.
Or he could have imported one.

There's been many threads on this subject, and foxbody mustang tends to be one of the most popular choices.

>Foxbody
>obscure
>overlooked

its probably one of the most overrated cars ever made and is almost ubiquitous at any motorsports event in the US

I think you have to throw in American culture when you consider an American Takumi. It wouldn't be a carbon copy.

So you're saying because of a fan boy following, it's become this overrated and overhyped vehicle that people ask way too much money for?

Hmm... how is this unlike the AE86?

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wasn't somebody on Veeky Forums working on an American adaptation of Initial D? I haven't heard of it in a while so I'm assuming it's dead.

[spoiler]come to think of it, I haven't heard anything about Initial Dinner in a long time either[/spoiler]

no. American Takumi would be too young to join the military and importing would be a nightmare due to the 25 year rule. Why import some shitty Opel when there are plenty of American cars readily available that meet the criteria.

here's American cars I think would make a good Dagumi car:
>1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais Quad 442 W41 (pictured)
Yes, It's FWD. Get that out of the way first. It's obscure and overlooked, but these fucking rockets dominated in SCCA Showroom Stock Racing. Which is why they were built. Just over 200 W41 package cars were built to homologate the car for SCCA racing. To this day, the 190 HP 2.3L Quad 4 engine is the most powerful N/A I4, judging by displacement, that GM has ever made. This was the thing Vtec Hondas feared.
Other notable suggestions
Oldsmobile Achieva SCX
Dodge Neon ACR
Dodge Neon R/T
Chevrolet Cavalier Z24
Pontiac Sunfire GT
Saturn SC2
Pontiac Fiero
Chevrolet Camaro Z28 (bonus points for 1LE package)
Pontiac Firebird. (Bonus points for their equivalent to the 1LE package)
C4 Chevrolet Corvette (bonus points for 1989+ model with the 6 speed manual)
SN95 Ford Mustang Cobra

These are cars that were all successful in SCCA and IMSA racing.

>how is this unlike the AE86?
Because the AE86's fanbase erupted as a result of Initial D.
The Mustang has a rabid fanbase because it's an American icon. If you want an overlooked good Mustang for Takumi to have, it has to either be a Mustang II or an SN95.

>overrated
>everybody knows they're shit

I just had an idea for an American version.

Todd Damico comes from an Italian-American family. His father is an ex-SCCA driver who owns a pizza shop in the Catskill Mountains in New York. After an accident involving a ladder, Todd's dad can no longer get in the delivery car for the shop, a 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais Quad 442 W41, so Todd must start doing the pizza deliveries down the mountain passes.
In under 30 minutes.
All Todd sees is a FWD Oldsmobile, but he starts seeing it differently after taking down a Honda S2000 on the way down.
Eventually, Todd finds the Quad 442 he has is an ex-SCCA Showroom Stock race car converted back to a civilian car when he finds the mounts for the roll cages are still there under the carpet.

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American Dagumi would be a southern good ol' boy who shoots cans off his porch in appalachia and drives his dad's SVO foxbody to deliver aluminum cans to the recycling center.

However, the recycling center gets pretty busy so he has to leave in the middle of the night to get there by opening, and the quickest way there is a windy state maintained road with no actual name, just a number string. He drives it every night and brings the recycling check back to his pa

dude I fucking love the dragon, I took my AW11 up there last fall and it was the tits

I'm going again once the weather warms up

The ae88 was sold in america, but not the ae86

XDDDb ebicc

>but not the ae86
yes it was.
youtube.com/watch?v=WdTnvEf_jnA

Takumi would need something that handles good, not something with a huge engine.
The Manta was the only thing close to the 86 made by a burger company.

Oh youre one of those retards.
Read the chassis code moron.

>guys an E30 isn't an E30
Fuck off RCRfag

>2.3L I4
>huge
pick one. The Cutlass Calais is tiny. Size-wize, it would be in between an Opel Astra, and a Vauxhall Cavalier, so similar size-wise to the AE86.

The AE86 didn't handle nearly as well as the sportscars and whatnot it went up against. I'm in the foxbody camp because while they are absolute garbage stock they can be made decent-ish with a few simple mods like a Panhard bar, some front end fuckery, etc. Bob Fujiwara would have messed with the suspension, Bunta did as well, but left the engine stock. Second-stage upgrade is a crate engine that maximizes the power the car can handle (300whp or so with stock tranny and driveshaft)

The 86 handles way better than a 90s mustang-
The Racing engine for the 86 had 240hp on the crank.

>The Racing engine for the 86 had 240hp on the crank.
which is irrelevant because Takumi's 86 started the series with ~110 HP

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The Fox isn't going to get it. It's way too popular to be a good analogue.
The SN95 however could probably get it.

Crooked steering wheel

Wich prooves my point that Takumi needs a low powered handling car, not a mustang.

way to make a completely pointless post.

Both of those cars, if seen on curvy roads, are going to be underestimated. They're practically the same thing underneath, the sn95 is somewhat less shite with 4 wheel disks and longer front control arms to lessen the fox platform'a Ackermann issues (which actually help with sliding, though)

youtube.com/watch?v=OkB56OLsSDc

Ever wonder why mustangs crash all the time?

Foxes are not fast at all. They're super choked from the factory. Early years had like 140 crank hp. Later years had 225.

>Manta
>Made by Burger company

This must be bait.

Just because they're owned by Burgers doesn't mean it is a Burger made/developed car

Because it's an easily accessible car with a decent amount of power on tap and people who buy them for the image try to show off without knowing what they're doing? Or were you expecting some stupid meme answer?

Because the steering wheel is crooked

Still much more than the 86...

And he'd be racing much faster cars, your point?
Are you referring to yaw or roll?

It points out the fucking window

Opel was, until recently, owned by General Motors...

So yaw. The seat is slightly pointed inwards too I think, along with pedals obviously. Kinda nice touch actually, points you more at the center of the road.

Read the second half of his post.

the Chevette is probably the closest thing to a burger AE86.

Vega is a better option

at least it had what was considered good handling

The ae86 was featured in initial d bevause it already had a massive fanbase you blathering fool
Please stop posting

user, was this you?

A Ford pinto would be

AE86 was featured in Initial D because the mangaka owns one kek

For your consideration

Ford Escort Cosworth, which is fucking bullshit that it's not here in the US of Fucking A only in fucking Europe

actually loled

i would agree, but i was thinking of something the same model year. pinto and vega weren't made in the 80's.

you can get them in mexico.

>Unassuming 4-cylinder performance variant of an exceedingly common car made during the mid-80s

Need I say more?

Probably Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Definitely an SVO, it and the 86 are essentially the same thing except the SVO is bigger and turbo'd

I can get behind this.

>max speed 60mph

An SVO was anything but unassuming. Everybody back then knew exactly what they were.

You weren't too far off.

Yep. You could even have American Itsuki fuck up by purchasing a four banger Capri.
Keyword being
>back then
Everybody knew what an AE86 was as well. Doesn't mean people didn't assume it was underpowered.

actually they had a sticker on the speedo that took the "85 MPH" speedo to 135 MPH, which was around where it ran out of gear.

As much as I love the GN, I don't think it would be dagumi's car.

would takumi deliver pizza or Chinese?

Yugo GVX. Once the engine blows, it gets a 13B put it in instead.

Pizza. He'd also work part time at a Sunoco.

i don't know why people are posting the svo when it can't corner and their are far better American hatch backs that can corner

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>merican
>mutated econobox
>sleeper-ish
>sedan

'murcan takumi-kun would takumi into a fucking wall almost immediately if he tried to deliver tofu in anything domestic

noturnz

>Dogumi uses frier grease to learn how to drift

>mustang
>obscure
run that through an exclusive or, cousin

this. i don't care if the chassis code is off by one number

nice