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Likely to start on a mock up for a page about Takumi's Eight-Six. Feel it might be good to have different pages for cars, for easier categorisation and to remove confusion. Takumi Fujiwara's Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX (AE86) (originally owned by Bunta Fujiwara), also known as The White Ghost of Akina, the Panda Trueno, or more simply as the Eight-Six, is one of the main vehicles in the Initial D series. Bunta Fujiwara used this car to set the fastest downhill record on Mount. Akina and then used it as the delivery for his tofu shop. It would later become legendary after his son, Takumi, used the car to beat Keisuke Takahashi of the Akagi RedSuns, he would later use it during his time as part of Project D before retiring the car at the end of the series.

Use by Bunta Fujiwara
It's unknown when Bunta purchased the Eight-Six, though it is implied that he had used it during when he went around racing with Yuichi Tachibana. He may have used it during his races with his rival, Ken Kogashiwa. He used the car to set the fastest downhill record on Akina, with this record still standing by the beginning of the series. At some point Bunta opened the Fujiwara Tofu Store, turning his car into a delivery vehicle. Five years prior to the beginning of the story, Bunta started sending a 13 year old Takumi out in the Eight-Six as a delivery driver. Over the years Takumi gained immense skill with the car, learning how to drift his car incredibly close to the guardrails and how to perform gutter runs out of his own boredom.

Birth of a Legend
During a tofu delivery run, Takumi overtook Keisuke Takahashi on the Akina downhill using a perfect inertia drift. This event would lead to Keisuke and the other RedSuns wishing for revenge. Koichiro Iketani, after hearing a story from his boss, Yuichi Tachibana, searches for the fastest downhill racer on Akina, an Eight-Six driving tofu shop owner. After Iketani begs the man he was looking for, Bunta Fujiwara, on several occasions to represent the Akina SpeedStars in their battle against the Akagi RedSuns, he eventually tells him that there is a 50/50 chance that he will show up. Bunta makes a deal with his son; if Takumi goes up to Akina and defeats Keisuke Takahashi in a downhill battle, he will allow him to use the Eight-Six, giving him a free full tank of fuel, so that Takumi can go to the beach with Natsuki Mogi. Takumi accepts and travels to Akina, confusing the SpeedStars, who were expecting Bunta. After Takumi explains that he had already beaten Keisuke in the past, Iketani happily lets him represent the SpeedStars, understanding that if Bunta sent him then he must be good. Despite the Eight-Six being technically inferior to Keisuke's FD3S, he manages to keep up with him throughout the whole course, falling behind on the straightaways but catching up again in the corners. Takumi eventually overtakes Keisuke by performing a gutter run, putting the tires of the car into the drainage ditch on the inside of the hairpin turns. Takumi wins with a 7 second lead. He then goes on his date with Natsuki, with her calling the Trueno cute.

Takumi would then go on to race two member of the Myogi NightKids: Takeshi Nakazato and his R32 GTR (his first encounter with a 4WD) and Shingo Shoji and his Civic EG6 (his first encounter with a FF). He then raced the leader of the Akagi RedSuns, Ryosuke Takahashi. Takumi wins this battle when Ryosuke's FC3S loses the grip in its tires, allowing Takumi to slip by and win. Takumi then battles Impact Blue and their SilEighty on Usui Pass (his first battle on a course other than Akina) and Kenta Nakamura of the Akagi RedSuns and his Silvia S14 on Myogi (his first battle in the rain). During Team Emperor's Gunma campaign, Takumi went up against Seiji Iwaki and his Lancer Evolution IV on Akina, beating him after Seiji deviated from the plan that was given to him. This would be Takumi's last official race on Akina.

Death on Akagi
After Takumi's defeat of Seiji Iwaki on the Akina downhill, Emperor leader Kyoichi Sudo challenges him to a downhill battle at Akagi. Initially not wishing to race Sudo, Takumi changes his mind after finding out about Natsuki Mogi's secret relationship with a salary man and angrily travels to Akagi to accept Sudo's challenge. Sudo considers the battle a lesson to Takumi about how his car is inferior and unsuited to modern street racing. Despite managing to keep up with Sudo for much of the race, Takumi is eventually outran by him on a straightaway, and shortly after the realisation of his loss, the Eight-Six's engine explodes, sending him into a spin. Not long after this, Bunta shows up with a truck to pick up the car with. He tells Takumi that, despite his complaints, they will have to replace the engine in the Eight-Six instead of rebuilding it.

Rebirth
The Trueno was fitted with a new engine by Masashi Suzuki, a mechanic and friend of Bunta's. This new engine was a TRD Group A racing engine based on the fourth generation of the 4A-GE that was found in Toyota AE101s. It unknown how he sourced this engine, although he may have contacts in the professional racing scene (suggested by the fact that he knows Keiichi Tsuchiya). Due to the sheer speed of the car with its new engine the driver is put under a large amount of g-forces, and so the car was fitted with a bucket seat. Due to a large amount of the money that Bunta had used to fix the car being money that Takumi had earned while delivering tofu, Bunta says that the car's ownership is now 50/50 between him and his son. Takumi originally believes that the car's new engine is less powerful due to the change in the shift points and the lack of a proper tachometer. With the help of Wataru Akiyama, a fellow Eight-Six driver, Takumi is able to find out that the reason the car is under-performing is due to his tachometer's inability to show the true redline of the engine, Wataru also recommends the installation of water temperature and oil pressure gauges. With help from Koichiro Iketani and Yuichi Tachibana (who gets the new instrument board from Suzuki), Takumi is able to install the new tachometer and faces Wataru in a battle on Shomaru pass, where he quickly adjusts to his new engine. Takumi then goes on to rematch Kyoichi Sudo on Irohazaka, his home course, with his new engine giving him the power he needed to match and beat Sudo. He would then battle Kai Kogashiwa, the son of Bunta's old rival Ken Kogashiwa, on the same course. After reconciling with Mogi, Takumi would then race her ex-boyfriend Miki on a snowy Akina to save her from him assaulting her. Exclusively in Third Stage, Takumi would also rematch Ryosuke Takahashi on Akagi, though this battle was merely to display his growth before he joins Ryosuke's new team: Project D.

Project D
Takumi joins Project D as one of their Double Aces with his Trueno. Shuichi Matsumoto is assigned as his mechanic, modifying the settings for the Eight-Six with help from Ryosuke. Takumi's first opponent with Project D was Toru Suetsugu of Seven Star Leaf, with Takumi winning the battle after Toru attempted to copy the weight-shifting gutter technique that Takumi had performed, failing to correctly shift his weight and causing his Roadster to fall into the gutter and flip.

His next opponent was Daiki Ninomiya, a breaking specialist and student of the Todo School.

Before the battle against Tomoyuki Tachi, the Eight Six is fitted with a carbon fibre hood and headlights to lighten the car. During the battle with Tachi, Takumi uses his Blind Attack technique for the first time, turning off and closing his headlights so that his opponent is unable to locate where his car is, leaving them unable to defend against him.

vs Bunta

Nobuhiko Akiyama

Sakamoto

4WD Complex

Ichijo

Toshiya Joshima

Kanagawa Campaign
Satoshi Omiya

Kai Kogashiwa - Fujiwara Zone

Hiroya Okuyama

Death and Legacy
During Takumi's final race with Shinji Inui of Sidewinder, the Eight-Six is pushed to its limits. In a last-ditch effort to overtake Shinji's Eight-Six, Takumi performs a Blind Attack. As he turns his lights back on, Takumi realises that he is revving his engine at 11,000RPM, and seconds later this over-revving causes his engine to explode. In the Manga, despite Matsumoto offering to help find a new engine, Takumi decides to get rid of the Eight-Six. Yuichi Tachibana notes that it is an appropriate end to the car, with the car disappearing into legend with its perfect record intact. In Final Stage, Takumi instead keeps the car, choosing to fix it up over time instead of getting rid of it.

In MF Ghost, Takumi would go on to mentor Kanata Livington, who drives a Toyota GT86, the spiritual successor to the AE86.

Original
The Trueno was originally fitted with a first generation 1.6L 16v Bluetop 4A-GEU. This engine blew during Takumi's battle with Kyoichi Sudo.

Replacement
Masashi Suzuki replaces the destroyed engine with a 1.6L 20v Silvertop 4A-GEU (carbureted with dry sump oiling system in the manga) that Bunta Fujiwara had sourced. This engine is originally from a TRD (Toyota Racing Development) Group A AE101, as this is a race car engine it would be illegal to drive on public roads - something that Yuichi Tachibana points out to Bunta. This engine is used up until the end of the series, with Takumi accidentally blowing his engine for a second time after coming out of a Blind Attack at 11,000 RPM during his battle with Shinji Inui.

Fujiwara Tofu Shop Version
First generation 4A-GE, 16 valve, 1.6L, L4 DOHC, 150 HP / 7500 rpm, 1587 cc displacement, FR layout, Naturally aspirated, 5-speed manual

Project D Version
TRD Group A fourth generation 4A-GE, 20 valve, 1.6L, L4 DOHC, 240 HP / 11000 rpm, 1587 cc displacement, FR layout, Naturally aspirated, 5-speed manual, 880 kg

Custom Parts

 * A pair of Cibie T353 Amber Fog Lights are fixed to the front bumper.
 * A Fujitsubo Legalis R Muffler
 * A sticker that reads Fujiwara Tofu Shop is stuck to the right side of the car.
 * An ItalVolanti Admiral Red Trim Steering Wheel (changed to a Tom's steering wheel from 4th stage Manga onwards)
 * A cup holder was attached to one of the air vents on the dashboard. This was often used on delivery runs to hold a cup of water, which would simulate the movements of the load of tofu in the boot of the car
 * The original Door Visors (removed in Fifth Stage)
 * RS Watanabe Eight Spoke F8-Type Wheels (Black)
 * A TRD Bucket racing seat is added to the car after its new engine is installed, to help the drive deal with the additional g-forces. It is added by Masashi Suzuki between Chapter 118 and Chapter 119.
 * A Smiths 12,000 RPM Tachometer (later changed to Ultra club sport tachometer) and Smiths auxiliary gauges (Oil Pressure/Water Temperature) are fitted in Chapter 132, supplied by Masashi Suzuki.
 * Takata 4-point drift harnesses
 * TRD Front shocks converted to coilovers W/ Short Stroke rear Adjustable Suspension Kit
 * TRD Crossed 5 w/ 5.375 Final Drive (2nd and 3rd Stage)
 * TRD 2-Way LSD, TRD Crossed 3 w/ 4.778 Final Drive (4th Stage)
 * The Trueno was fitted with a TRD Carbon Fiber Hood and Carbon Fiber Headlights by Shuichi Matsumoto of Project D in Chapter 239 to make the car weigh less
 * Project D's mechanics add a Cusco 6 point roll cage to the Trueno in Chapter 490. In Fourth Stage a TRD 4 point roll bar is installed instead.
 * Cusco Strut Bar and Lightweight FRP Rear Gate with Acrylic Windows (5th-Final Stage)

Manga
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