04-26-2018, 05:35 PM
|
#398
|
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2014
Drives: 2020 Hakone
Location: London, Ont
Posts: 69,841
Thanks: 61,656
Thanked 108,295 Times in 46,456 Posts
Mentioned: 2499 Post(s)
Tagged: 50 Thread(s)
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by funwheeldrive
But that's America, back then people were fawning over 80s Camaros which are pretty much forgotten about these days (for good reason). In other parts of the world the ae86 was almost instantly recognized as a tuner friendly car with lots of potential. I'm not talking about the base SR5 version, I'm talking about the GTS or whatever the equivalent was in other countries.
There is a reason the author of Initial D used the AE86 in the first place, it's not like they picked a cheap econobox at random. Sure maybe it's not a dedicated sports car like the GT86, but to say the cars are not similar to each other in terms of ideology seems a little silly to me.
|
Maybe he picked it because it was easy to draw?
__________________
Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar, because Racecar.
|
|
|