The Toyota AE86 is one of the most iconic cars across any entertainment media involving any kind of racing. It’s not very fast, it doesn’t have the best handling, but it is the Initial D car, and in the game set in Japan, it obviously draws attention. It’s the drift icon that a lot of players will immediately try to recreate in Forza Horizon 6 the moment they get access to the garage.
Forza Horizon 6 includes the 1985 Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT Apex, commonly known as the Toyota AE86, along with the Forza Edition version of the same car. The official car list also includes the 2013 Toyota GT86, and the 1969 Nissan Fairlady Z 432, giving players several options to recreate iconic cars from anime and manga.
How to get the Toyota AE86 from Initial D
Fortunately, the 1985 Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT Apex is readily available for purchase at the Autoshow. It costs only 28,500 credits and has a Performance Index of 276. It’s very cheap, and any player will have enough to purchase it within the first few minutes of playing Forza Horizon 6.
It’s a D-class car, decently fast and agile, but it has abysmal brakes, which you should immediately swap for something better.
The stock Trueno comes in the iconic white-and-black panda livery, but it lacks the Fujiwara Tofu Shop logo, “藤原とうふ店 (自家用),” on its right door. Fortunately, fans have already made several variations, and it will be available to be applied even during the early access period.
Takumi Fujiwara gradually upgraded his AE86 over the course of Initial D, and you can do the same in Forza Horizon 6. Several authentic car parts can be found and applied to it, but one unfortunate omission is the lack of a Group A 20V Silvertop 4A-GE that replaces the stock engine.
Why the Toyota AE86 is so iconic
The AE86 became famous because of Shuichi Shigeno’s manga and anime Initial D, where Takumi Fujiwara drives a Toyota Sprinter Trueno while delivering tofu for his father’s shop. Toyota’s own global site directly names the Sprinter Trueno AE86 as Takumi Fujiwara’s car from Initial D, which says plenty about how completely the anime and the car are linked. Japanese drift legend Keiichi Tsuchiya also drove an AE86, which also adds to the car’s legacy.
How to get the Toyota GT86 from MF Ghost
The Toyota 86 is the modern spiritual successor to the AE86. In Forza Horizon 6, the game uses the 2013 Toyota 86 name, while many fans will know the same generation as the Toyota GT86, depending on the region.
In MF Ghost, Initial D’s successor manga and anime, the main character, Kanata Katagiri, is driving the stock red version of this car. The show is set in a world where high-speed road racing has evolved into an organized and streamed spectacle. The appeal is similar to Initial D, with a relatively underpowered Toyota thrown into battles against faster, more expensive cars, and the driver has to make up the difference through technique.
Toyota 86 is also available for a direct purchase at the Autoshow, and it’s even cheaper than AE86 at just 14,250 credits. It’s a bit more powerful than its predecessor, with a Performance Index of 460, and has a higher top speed.
The thematic livery is also readily available, so players can roleplay as Kanata even more easily.
How to get the Nissan Fairlady Z from Wangan Midnight
Wangan Midnight is another amazing manga and anime series, but unfortunately, it’s less known in the West than Initial D or MF Ghost. It has its own set of iconic cars, chief among which is the famous Devil Z, a heavily tuned Nissan Fairlady Z S30 known for insane speed. Unlike the AE86, which became iconic through drifting and mountain-road technique, the Devil Z is about blazing highway speed.
Fortunately, like the previous two cars, it’s also available for a direct purchase at the Autoshow. Unfortunately, the Nissan Fairlady Z 432 that’s available in Forza Horizon 6 isn’t technically the same car. It’s a high-performance and very rare version of the stock S30, but considering that you need to highly kit out the car to roleplay as Devil Z, it’s not that big of a deal. The car is also more expensive than Toyotas at 237,500 credits.
Forza Horizon has always been a great place to roleplay as these iconic anime cars. But considering that we’re in Japan now, and have both mountain passes for Toyotas and high-speed highways for Nissan, this is the closest we’ve been to the ultimate fantasy.
