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Dominic Toretto's black 1970 Dodge Charger R/T is the car he built with his father and was afraid to drive, until the finale of The Fast and the Furious (2001) sends it down the street against Brian's Supra; it has been his car in most of the films since. DeAGOSTINI's 1:8 partwork builds it in die-cast metal over 110 issues, with lit headlights, engine and horn sounds and a supercharger standing proud of the bonnet.
KITT is the car from Knight Rider, the NBC series that ran from 1982 to 1986: a black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with a computer for a brain, a red scanner sweeping across its nose and William Daniels's voice. DeAGOSTINI's 1:8 partwork builds it in die-cast metal over 110 issues, with a wristwatch remote that lights the scanner and dashboard and makes KITT talk.
The AE86 was the Corolla Toyota didn't modernise: a light rear-wheel-drive car on old underpinnings with a new twin-cam engine, which went on to win touring-car titles in Europe and Britain and became the car Japan learned to drift in. The Sprinter Trueno is the version with pop-up headlamps.
Doc Brown's time machine is a stainless-steel DeLorean with a reactor in the back: get it to 88 mph with 1.21 gigawatts behind it and it jumps through time, which is how Marty McFly ends up in 1955 at his parents' high school. DeAGOSTINI's 1:8 partwork builds it in die-cast metal over 130 issues, with lit time circuits, opening gull-wing doors and a speedometer that reads 88.
Brian O'Conner's silver-and-blue Nissan Skyline GT-R is the car he races in the opening of 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), the second film in the series, and the R34 behind it was a car Nissan built only in Japan. DeAGOSTINI's 1:8 partwork builds the film car in 110 issues, with opening doors, bonnet and boot, working lights and a remote control for the engine sound and horn.
Keisuke Takahashi is the younger of Initial D's two rotary brothers, a former bōsōzoku in a yellow Mazda Efini RX-7 Type R, and the first rival to lose to Takumi's Hachiroku — twice, on Mount Akina. His FD3S is the RX-7 as Mazda reinvented it in 1991, with sequential twin turbos and a body from its Irvine studio.
Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love (2017–2019) retells the 1978 film Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato, in which the Yamato, a starship rebuilt from a Second World War battleship, sails against the White Comet Empire of Gatlantis. Hachette Collections Japan's weekly partwork builds the 2202 Yamato at 1:350 as a 950 mm die-cast model over 110 issues, with a lit and sounding Wave Motion Gun, turning turrets and a hangar for its Cosmo Tiger II.
The S30 Fairlady Z — badged the Datsun 240Z for export — offered features associated with far more expensive European sports cars at a relatively low price, drew long waiting lists, and helped show that Japanese carmakers could build more than economy cars. Aoshima's 1:32 楽プラ Snap Kit builds a customised one — white, with a front lip spoiler, bronze 16-inch RS Watanabe eight-spokes on stretched tyres and the option of a lowered stance — in 30 parts without glue or paint.
Ryosuke Takahashi is the White Comet of Akagi — a medical student, founder of the Akagi RedSuns, and unbeaten in his white Mazda RX-7 FC3S until Takumi's Hachiroku passed him on Akina. After that he largely stopped racing and started planning: Project D is his.
Mako Sato drives for Impact Blue, a two-woman team with Sayuki navigating, and they are the fastest pair on Usui Pass in a Sileighty: a Nissan 180SX wearing the front end of an S13 Silvia. Her race against Takumi on Usui is run cat-and-mouse, one car chasing the other, and she loses it by spinning.
Toyota stopped building the Supra in August 2002 and brought the name back seventeen years later as the GR Supra, a coupé developed alongside BMW's Z4 and built in Austria. It was developed and sold under Toyota's Gazoo Racing brand, and it ran until March 2026.
Takeshi Nakazato leads the Myogi NightKids and is Initial D's convert to grip driving: beaten by a GT-R while drifting his Silvia, he sold it, bought a black R32 Skyline GT-R V-Spec II and decided drifting was only for show. Takumi's Hachiroku disagrees, on Akina.
Jiufen is a hillside town in New Taipei that grew out of a gold rush, emptied when its mine closed in 1971, and came back to life as a town of teahouses and cafés after a 1989 film made it famous. Anavrin's book nook builds one of its old-street alleys at 1:24 from 593 pre-coloured wooden pieces, with cherry blossom, lanterns and LED-lit storefronts.
Ginzan Onsen — "silver mine hot spring" — is a mountain spa town in Yamagata whose multi-storey wooden inns face each other across the Ginzan River, rebuilt after a flood in 1913 and lit by gas lamps at night. Viendor's BN005, sold as Book Nook Global, builds the riverside in 1,116 pre-coloured parts, with one motor driving a figure inside the main inn and water pumps at the houses by the river.
The MP4-23 carried Lewis Hamilton to his first world title in 2008. It came down to the final corners of the final race, where he passed Timo Glock for the fifth place he needed and beat Felipe Massa by one point.
A first-class railway compartment of the 1940s, with leather panelling, warm yellow light and — the point of it — scenery that moves past the window. It is BN003 from Viendor, the Hanoi workshop that sold as Book Nook Global, which calls it the first book nook with a fully moving scene; the kit is 536 pre-coloured parts in birch, acrylic, metal and PU leather.
Pocher's 1:8 die-cast kit (HK114) of the John Player Special Lotus 72D that Emerson Fittipaldi drove to victory in the 1972 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch, four seconds ahead of Jackie Stewart, on his way to that year's world title. On the bench alongside it is Paul Koo's detailing kit — more than 120 pieces of scale hardware, a custom decal sheet, seat-belt webbing, braided hose, tubing and wire for the plumbing and electrics — and his reference DVD of assembly and real-car photographs.