Heh, yeah that last post has all the right info on the actual car.

In the anime it's driven by one of the "Rotary Brothers" Keisuke and Ryousuke Takahashi... Keisuke drives a CYM FD (mmmmm)... Ryousuke drives the Infini III RX7 (MMMMMM) which is about equivelant to the '88AE in the US.

I think ryousuke's car also has some RE-A kit on it.... I'm not sure... anyway... other funny facts is he "downtunes" his FC to have less horsepower in the anime in order to "balance" it.

But don't laugh that much about it... it is VERY LOOSELY based on facts. There is a real racer who learned to drift and race by delivering tofu for his family... there is a REAL Fujiwara Tofu Shop (not the same place as this racer came from though). And all the facts in the anime are (again, loosely) based on what real Japanese racers have to say. Keiichi had a good deal to do with the anime... he's even in it, when Bunta calls "an old friend" for a favor (if you haven't seen the series I'll not spoil it for you... but I'll say that the thing that happens is ALSO based on truth... but it's stupidly crazy...) and they kind of show the friend at the track... it's Keiichi, and it's his voice on the phone. ;P

That Infini III FC is also the one in Gran Turismo 3.

So yeah, I know a little about the anime.

--Gary

 

rear wiper representative here too!

we should start a rear wiper club!



ok so I was kidding...

 

Whats so special about rear wipers? I have it on my car.....what trim did those come in?

 

GXL and Turbo models

 

and 91 base models like mine!

 

91's are just like Mr. Potato Head. Grab a bunch of random parts and put em on a shell.

 

hahahah true dat^

 

Anfini!!! Where the hell does this crap come from?! It is not Anfini, Enfini, Efini, Infinity or whatever. It's INFINI. It's not that hard to remember.

BTW, Efini is the name 3rd Gen RX-7's were sold under in Japan. Totally different cars.

 

Maybe that is the Japanese - English translation. I don't know, just offering a different POV.

David

 

It's a made-up word. There's nothing to translate it to.

 

haha, it's like haduken not real

--Fritz

 

was that word in streetfighter? lol!

 

infini and efini are rough 'engrish' trasnlations of the word 'infinity.'

and calling initial D a "racing sim" is like calling the movie 'pearl harbor' a documentary.

 

But it is pronounced on'-fin-ee... so maybe the queens English is a little different.

You know like Bejeing, being pronounced Peking in the queens English

 

*cheers for rear wipers*

Icemark fixed mine =)

 

NZ: Regarding the I/E/Anfini, it's because it's not spelt with an english character and there is some debate on how it should be written in english. I believe Mazda Japan spells it with a "A" when not using a epsilon hense why Brian Long did it. (I'll try to find that info) Some use an "E", I guess because the epsilon character is closest to that and some use "I" because that's closest to how many people would pernounce it.

Didn't the Queen cave in and start calling Bejeing "Bejeing" instead of "Peking"? BBC news seems to.

 

There is not such thing as a 91 base model... you either had a Coupe, Turbo, Or convertible in 91.

 

the coupe is the base model, just like the GTU was the base model for the older years, its the lowest model with the least options

 

You're getting totally confused between the 2nd Gen INFINI and 3rd Gen EFINI models. These are totally different cars with similar (but still different) names. It was the Efini name that Mazda spelt with the Greek letter epsilon, not the Infini, and I'm 100% sure it had absolutely nothing to do with pronunciation either. It's purely a marketing thing. Anything a little different from the norm is a "good thing" in marketing. The actual pronunciation of the letter epsilon is very similar to the letter E anyway.

 

No not at all... there were 91 coupes with full leather and heavy duty brakes and power everything. The coupe had several options packages, from medium equipped to fully loaded. All of them coupes. Not one 89-90 GTU ever came with leather and 4 piston brakes.

So I guess you could say it was a base because it was not a convertible or a Turbo... but that is a pretty thin argument.

and the GTU was only a base model in 89-90. In 88 it was the same or better than a GTUs.

 

the infini acutally yeah is from "inifnite" look at the badge in the FC its a "lazy 8" also a symbol for infinite.

 

i just bought set of them ;o)

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...927197140&rd=1

 

Icemark is right, i have both a 91 coupe with option A: 4 piston brakes, rear wiper, lumbar support for seats...(just about every option except leather and a CD player im sure there are a few minor ones that came with option B). I also have a 90 GTU, the GTU had only a few power accesories...the mirrors and sunroof. other than that it was a total stripper car. base brakes, crappy black interior and super crappy seats.

 

oh man

 

My 88 GTU is the shiz! A turbo ride without the turbo vin, screw the man!!

It is sad how they slutted the name in 89. The sales man in 89 "Oh yeah, this the the GTU baby." Shhhesh