Keiichi Tsuchiya

is a professional race car driver. He is also known as the for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport. He is also known for touge (mountain pass) driving.The car he drives, a Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno, has become one of the most popular sports cars; the car is also known as Hachi-Roku in Japan (hachi-roku meaning eight six); his car is also called The Little Hachi that could. A video known as Pluspy documents Tsuchiyas touge driving with his AE86. He also is a consultant for one of the popular comic books and manga, Initial D, of which the main character Takumi Fujiwara is a character which describes him.

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