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mad respect for the black r34, what a guy!

the dude in the black r34 was absolute class. Massive respect for him.

I firmly believe that Takumi's 86 in first stage wasn't stock. We all been told that Bunta has fiddled with it over the years. I believe the chassis & suspension was tuned for stability. I believe it had not more than 180hp, but may have had a short ratio gearbox. But most importantly, I believe that car has been put through a lot of subtly concealed weight shedding to keep with up with powerful cars uptil 3rd gear. I'm theorizing this bcz Bunta knows that the car should complement the driver's talent.

the fact that they made it so you can do the gutter run is amazing

Hey I drove up and down this course in real life last week, in an FD RX-7 with my mates in an R34 and an S15! Going around those hairpins I almost couldnt believe how fast people were actually street racing through them.

I wish they would make a game just about this, with you having to maintain your car, upgrade it, change tyres, fix things and race to earn money. A bit like the old Street Rod games for DOS. That would be so much fun!

Jimber play my summer car

It is so true what you were saying about not needing 1000bhp to have fun. Since we started going out on track we've had several occasions in our Mini Cooper and Cooper S where we are faster round a lap than some fire breathing monster that does 4745mph on the straights but is completely useless when the track changes direction. It is 100% more fun being able to go flat out over a whole lap rather than full throttle for 8 seconds then waiting for the next straight to do it again.

I WAS THE BLACK SKYLINE FOLLOWING JIMMER

It's a very specific itch that Togue Union and SRP scratch of the urge to push 80's and 90's JDM icons to their limit, like our own episodes of Best Motoring. If you'd have told me growing up not only could I play with the cars I loved on Gran Turismo on proper country roads, and have the ability to do that with people around the world, I wouldn't have ever thought it possible.

dam these edits are amazing ! nice little cut scene type with the first run

I've spent thousands of hours doing exactly this. I'd just turn on some music, put on the VR headset, and keep replaying the track all day long.

I spent an unhealthy amount of time trying to match that 5:22. Managed at 5:30 so far so I'll take my achievement lol. I've got alot of time to make up on the hairpins getting it turned in but I'm coming for you Jimmer!

My favorite low HP combo in asseto is a stock Suzuki cappuccino at laguna seca. You can do the ENTIRE course in 3rd gear. A shift to 2nd in the final corner can gain you a tenth but other than that it really lets you focus on your lines and carrying speed

Yay, More Touge content! I hope I get lucky and catch you on a Togue life server soon! Cheers

What jimmer said about gt3 sim racing is so true. I one hundred percent agree that you learn more about car control with a 130bhp japanese box in 30 minutes than u do with a gt3 at spa in a lot longer. Gotta love the good ol boxy boys

If anyone wants to drive on "Akina" in a video game and not a mod, its actual real life name is Haruna, and this mountain road appears in Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift series. It's also obviously in the Initial D games too.

Awesome edits, such a cool scene to see the view from a gran turismo cinematic shot for passes and taps.

You can also get a cars rear end to slip by shifting down without hitting any other pedals besides the clutch. I only do this after I heel toe in for the entrance and then I shift down while holding the clutch in to step the cars rear end out. This has allowed me to slide the car through the corner at high speeds. The AE86 is definitely the perfect car for learning your own technique which is what I did.

This was a really fun and educational video Jimmer. I can relate 100%...my favourite car in Dirt Rally is the Alpina 110. The sound, the skill needed to drive it fast is just awesome! (in VR I should add)

Editor did a good job with this one, love the external shots

Back in the last part of the 90s a guy i knew had a completely stock AE86, in a blue close to the last one that followed you. I absolutely loved that car. How it behaved in corners, how the engine sounds, how you're sat in the car, the looks. I would never pay what people are asking for them now a days, but i'd have one in a heartbeat if it weren't for those insane prices. Can't wait to watch that video :) ..oh and: Absolutely agree. Even when watching, this is more fun than most simracing i see.

Glad your back with the togue Jimmer. I just commented on one of you latest video about this, and now you've done it. Great content, keep up the good work. Cheers!

its amazing this community is still thriving,, used to hang out on the touge servers like 7years ago! Love the content. Cant wait to see you real life touge! :D

Im so glad you started making these videos, ive been in the togue lobbies having a blast

Akina is my absolute fave it's somewhere in an intermediate level imo. it's got sharp hairpins, chicanes, fast turns, and straightaways which makes it fun to race on.

You can take the man out of the shed, but you can never take the shed out of the man.

As an AE86 track-driving owner, and simracer (and a bit of dev too) since GPL days (1998!), I salute you for this vid, J! Understanding vehicle dynamics or the fun (and thrill) of driving isn't about the numbers and absolute performance, but about the experience you can enjoy and thrive on as a driver.

Im loving the content and the editing! Thx Jimmer and "The Editor" haha

been playing controller my whole life, i only started using a steering wheel a couple of months ago. the slap of reality where i couldn't even drive anything above 300hp in a straight line was so infuriating. but when it puts me in a situation where i have to start learning the absolute basics with low hp cars (i use a honda s800. mad little cars, love it!) i have to say it sparked an even more intense desire to keep playing, keep practicing, keep learning how to feel the car through a steering wheel. first time i got podium in a 30 lap tsukuba race was more rewarding than anything else i've ever done. makes me super happy that all those hours spent learning the car actually gives me actual visible progress. i'll be moving myself to the mx5 cup cars this week, which will hopefully be a good bump in difficulty. super excited!

I’m in Touge life 1 pretty often and I didn’t see you! It’s so addicting , those precious seconds. Would love to know your times on some of the cars, I’ve posted mine below! Rx7 - 4:41 Supra - 4:51 R34 - 4:49 370z - 4:51 Gt86 - 4:58 Ae86 tuned - 4:45 I’m forgetting some lol

in my 20's i stage rallied a 1985 ford capri with 210bhp. its just a great way for learning weight transfer and slide it around on different surfaces

Love your work Jiimadore, keep this content up!

Shitboxes are the best! I'm on my 3rd mx5 and there is nothing more rewarding than trouncing real cars in the twisties.

Thank you Jimmy so refreshing and i even learn something...no more stuck in gt3 , now having fun , thanks

JIMMER TOUGE IS ALWAYS FUN TO WATCH

I love these Touge style videos. In GT5 my favourite thing to do was generate the longest, wiggliest course I could and lap it in lightly tuned turds. Hardmode was keeping it in the "correct" lane for RHD/LHD cars.

In the real world I started my car handling journey with an AE86 Corolla GT Coupe. Taught me everything I needed about car control, and respecting limits. So playful, do much fun. Today's cars don't allow people to learn about how cars react to inputs unless in the virtual world, and believe me losing the rear end at 70mph and controlling it with a car in the adjacent lane teaches a whole new level of understanding and respect.

i have a 5:10 in the stock 86 down akina, listening to you explain all techniques like shifting to 1st to shift weight and rotate car makes me think, when driving you never really think what you are doing through and you just kind of do it, like second nature i guess lol

Holy hell, the exterior camera shot at 9:09... It's straight out of the manga/anime! I didn't think anyone could actually make that happen, that's amazing!

I'm new to this channel, that was thrilling. I was about half way through when I noticed there's a shot of his feet too.. Heel & toe action, nice!

Thank you Jimmy, amazing content! Inspiring

Its nice to see Michael shedmacher doing well, keep it up jimmy we love you!

exactly why i race mx5s on assetto corsa any time theres a race online, the racing is incredible, and the car moves around a lot

You're so right at the end there about that car being more about how you use it. It feels much more personal, more human in a way.

Love the respect to iconic twincam, the holy grail of Irish car scene 🇮🇪

literal perfect timing jimmer. i started rewatching initial d again only yesterday!

and this is why, in iracing, the mustang fr500s is my current favorite car to drive. Good for learning momentum driving, weight transfer, brake and throttle effects on turning, and throttle control. It is a car that really lets you feel how a car responds to your driving, and has just enough power that you cant plant it anywhere and be fine (though you can still be kinda lead footed). It's, easy to get it sideways and control it during the slide, and feels extremely to feel the improvements to your driving as you increase pace. It's really fun to drive no matter what

Shoutout to editor chan, great editing!

I've been doing touge routes in a little Daihatsu Mira and it's so much fun!

nice to see the touge again, gave you a follow for that reason back in the days

I just love how late you can brake in the 86. You and a car with much more horsepower can go into a turn at the same speed and angle but the magic of the 86's NA engine will allow you to feather the brake and slow down much later than the 350-400 HP beasts that are commonly associated with touge racing. Such an amazing little machine.

Slower cars and a circuit sized to match will always be more fun to race with other people than super fast race cars! I used to do a lot of R/C racing where typically everything is crazy fast and crazy high grip. The most fun I had was finding a group where we deliberately ran slower cars and less grip on a track sized right for it. We did that for years and it never got boring.

Thanks Jimmy for do y thing, love it, always!

I remember when i played NFS world i enjoyed the events with the slowest cars class the most. I used to play the slowest car from the slowest class but the strength of it was carrying speed through the corners and even though everyone passed me on the straights I would always gain back the position in and after the corner.

I literally started a series in this car today on Forza... such a fun car to drive. I have it at 125kw currently

Would love to see another live stream of this mod!

this was such a good vid bro, respect

the nosie of the 86 is like love to my ear i love that car with all my heart

Respect for keeping that black 34 damn. Wish i could drive like this.

I love that car and track combo. Generally I prefer to run the tuned verison of the ae86 but the stock one is also very fun.

This video really shows you the thought they put into using the AE86 as the main car for Initial D

a black limited is a mega based choice for you to use, jimmer. cant wait to see what you got irl, and keep up these vids! love the cinematic shots and replays!

Jimmy we need more of this game

couldn't agree more on your sentiment around these cars vs. GT3+ types. GT4 cars are still pretty fun for the same reason.

I can confirm. I used to race these normal street cars in SIM racing more often in my life than GT cars. Recently I got more into GT7 and I am still having a bit of touble with the GT cars sometimes/my opponents are way quicker. Once there is some Race with normal road cars I usually always gain a podium and getting way better qualifying times than most of the people in the lobbies.

As always a great video from Jimmer

This would be the perfect thing for me to get, now that i've got a h-patten shifter for my set up. Excellent vidja Jammer and excellent editing Editor-chan

That's why i love riding my Honda Grom so much more than any other bike ive ridden. 9hp is a hoot to push to its limit.

you're so talented, i wish i could get to that skill lvl somedya

This vid made my day, cant wait to buy a sim rig :) Love ur vids

Jimmer, there's a port of this track for BeamNG... you know what to do!

Glad you're having fun

"You don't need 1000BHP to have fun" Thank you, finally someone gets it, I've gotten crap for having a 3 valve with only a cold air intake power wise, but the suspension bushings were done for when I got it so all the money is in the suspension, 300HP in a planted car is some of the most fun I've had

280bhp 6min33s Nordschliefe. Bloody love it. Slow with massive aero too. 😂 That's my detuned Radical RXC. Rad vid dude. ❤

You gotta come find the BeamNG Togue players that do these exact runs competitively in BeamMP on BeamNG Standard tires, it's a incredible time, especially when the cars are setup well and everyone in the server can actually drive. Last thing I was doing was period correct shit tire rallying in BeamNG, was a very good time.

I just tried Touge for the first time with a car like this, with the Toyota AE86 and it was exactly what I needed, I got pretty much bored from high horsepower cars so this is the perfect solution

more of this please jimmyy

Love old cars on twisty real world roads. My favourite thing to do in sim racing is to just lap Targa Florio in the 60's mini in rFactor 2. It's puts me in my zen place. I will have to give togue a go though. Looks like a real hoot.

9:27 "See? I can pass you any time I want!"

1:30 i know it doesn't look like it, but those VHS clips you posted are pretty heavily modified ae86s for the time. suspensions setups is what everyone put their money into, low HP, but very stiff suspension, even if the height was too high.

This is why I always loved throwing Mini Coopers around rally stages in, well, every rally game ever. Less power = more power!

My dream car? A bucket list irl road? Some video Jimmer 🤘🏻

Yoooo he even got the Chevy Chevette in the beginning of the video, i loved it, it is my first car!

Loved the battle with the black r34!

agreed I love driving older lower powers cars in sim racing instead of supercar tier stuff like GT3 and LMP stuff.

Bought my first wheel, second day of using it and got a 5:41 in the nismo Nisan, I for sure have more pace, gonna aim for a 5:30 by the end of the week

Glad you enjoy touge racing! This EXACTLY is the reason why I bought my sim rig. To fulfill my childhood weeb initial D dream 😂

fav simracing influencer on fav racing mode what more could I ask for ??

I've been saying this for decades. The most fun you can have in a car is being close to its limit. As you said, having a car that is on a knife-edge is really hard and perhaps not as satisfying. And going a million kilometers per hours is probably going to end badly, especially in the real world. Driving cars like these have a wider gap between going close to the limit and going over it. In a sense they're easier, but also so much more satisfying, and at safer and legal speeds to boot.

That was the Kunos AE86?! Maaan that sounded better than I remember, awesome!!

Chop chop Racing boy, more of these please

Oh man, I gotta hop back on this track. I used to run sub 4:30 on the kunos Tuned 86... good times

That's why I like running old cars, there's so much character when you don't have all the down force and all the power.

Funny, I often do a few runs of the Akina downhill in the TU server, and more often than not in an r34. Not saying I was the one racing Jimmy, but there's a non-zero chance that it was me in that black r34.

"The 86 is a car that trains the driver." Fujiwara Bunta

oh i was hoping this would be an ae86 tuned video. thats probably the most competitive kunos car in the touge scene

In the movie and anime series the suspension as being fix for handling and drift

Id really like to see you drive the 86 tuned on this course.

Can't wait to watch the AE86 IRL vid then. Supra, GTR, AE86, Miata... You're really getting that dream JDM garage.