Vivid Racing competed in the American Touge 2 DVD shooting for Japan’s Hot Version series. The Pepsi RX8 showed up for some fun and ended up making a statement. Check out complete footage of the American Touge 2 competition. Vivid Racing has the DVD now!
Vivid Racing competed in December 2005 in the Amercian Touge 2 DVD shoot with the Pepsi RX8. Showing up to have some fun and mess around with their show/race car, they never would have expected the turn out. Check out the full JDM DVD featuring Vivid Racing and the Pepsi RX8.
After the success of the first American Touge DVD, Zigzag Asia conducted an open casting call for US tuner cars to appear in the sequel AT2 to be tested and driven to the limits touge style by Keiichi Drift King Tsuchiya and his protégé Yasuyuki Kazama. 33 cars divided into 4 different classes were chosen to battle it out to challenge last year’s Touge Monster, Comptech NSX. Hotties Kazumi Kondo and Verena Mei co-host the show.
Cars were divided into NA RWD, Turbo RWD, FR and AWD classes. Promising contenders from the first American Touge such as Hasport, Top Setup, Techno Toy Tuning, Vishnu and XS Engineering were there to avenge the Touge Monster title. Cars from grade A tuners such as the Mullerized EVO and AEM Civic Si were newly chosen along with several privateers with hopes they may have some surprises.
The Hot Version International AT2 is 90 minutes long with more detailed footage of American Touge 2 compared to the JDM version which was released earlier in Japan.
Cast: Keiichi Tsuchiya, Yasuyuki Kazama, Kazumi Kondo and Verena Mei
Cars Appearing:
Comptech NSX, Techno Toy Tuning AE86, Full Function AE86, Toyota MR-S, Toyota Corolla GT-S, Mazda Miata, Nissan 350Z, BMW M3, Danstoy AE86, AE86 with turbo 35GE, Vivid Racing Pepsi RX-8, Miata Turbo, MR-S 2ZZ, MR-2, High End Performance MR-S, Honda S2000, Factor X NSX, Spugen S2000, Surge 240sx, RX-7, Mini Cooper S, Import Racer RSX, Raceline USA Integra Type R, Top Setup EG6, Hasport CRX, AEM Civic Si, Endless EG6, APR Evil R, Gravel Crew WRX2.5RS, World One Performance STi, XS Engineering R34 GT-R, Speedlab STi, Crawford Performance 2.5RS, Vishnu Evo, Bozz Performance Evo, Extreme Performance Evo, Muellerized Evo, Aspec Evo and American Trackday Monster Evo.
Bonus Feature: XDL Promo Video Premier
