Test your knowledge of iconic Japanese performance cars, legendary manufacturers, and the machines that shaped car culture.
Questions
12
Reward
130
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65
Entry
70
Japanese performance cars occupy a place in enthusiast culture that has very little to do with how fast they actually were. A specific run of models built mostly between the late eighties and the early two-thousands became legendary through video games, drifting, street racing films and the simple fact that they were tunable, reliable and, for a while, cheap. Twelve questions on that era and its machines. Which manufacturer built what, what the chassis codes mean, which model used an engine layout almost nobody else persevered with, why one particular car earned a monster's nickname, and which drivetrain layout the drifting scene requires. Rated Medium. What makes it fair rather than obscure is that this culture documented itself obsessively, through games and forums and films, so a great deal of this knowledge reached people who have never seen one of these cars in person.
Background and what to expect. No answers given away.
This is the defining quirk of the culture. Enthusiasts identify these cars by internal chassis designations rather than by the names they were sold under, and in several cases the code is far better known than the model name it refers to.
One small coupe in particular is known almost exclusively by its code, largely because of a manga and anime series built around it, to the point where many fans would struggle to name the model it actually belongs to.
While everyone else used pistons, one company persisted for decades with a rotary design that spins rather than reciprocates. It is compact, extremely smooth, revs remarkably high, and drinks oil and fuel in a way that eventually made it impossible to sell.
That engine is inseparable from one particular sports car, and it is the single most distinctive piece of engineering in this quiz.
The discipline depends on being able to break traction at the back while steering with the front, which rules out cars that drive the front wheels and complicates cars that drive all four.
That requirement is why certain models from this era became drift staples and others, despite being faster, did not.
The most famous epithet in this segment was coined by an Australian magazine to describe a car that arrived and comprehensively destroyed the local touring car championship. It was not a compliment at the time and the manufacturer has embraced it ever since.
If a question mentions a nickname, it is pointing at that lineage.
Chassis codes and model names are treated as different facts. Enthusiasts refer to these cars by alphanumeric designations rather than by their showroom names, and the questions use both.
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