History Sandbox / GearFriedTheKnight

* Rewrite lackluster definitions

* ThemeNaming: All named after Universal IPs? Maybe? Need to ask.

* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Despite all being very close to Kiyoshi and using one another to improve their situations as a form of therapy, the Wind Stars' relationships with one another are lacking, so they rarely hang out that much. Doesn't stop Toshiki Aikawa from wanting to write a song thanking them for everything.

* HopeBringer: Kiyoshi Onizuka to his friends and teammates.

* LonersWillStayAlone

* SharedFamilyQuirks

* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: No mention of Akira Nagase's parents, or any family beyond his brother, is made. Relevant due to the complete and utter despair he fell in upon his brother's passing.
* ChallengeSeeker: Natsumi Uemura will refuse to face the player if their car can't reach 300 kilometers per hour in ''Import Tuner Challenge''.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Team cars tend to be darker colored, as does their logo. Despite that, they're not villainous at all.

* EmpathicWeapon: Akira Nagase's car seems to be this, in his own opinion. When he first inherited it and he was still working through his grief, the car refused to respond to his controls. After he begun processing it, the car started behaving as he wanted it to.

* ''Tokyo Xtreme Racer'' - DONE; Tropes need to be rewritten, up to Cupid Arrows, 15/20

'''ROLLING GUY'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Rolling Guy #1" Satoru Kobayakawa ☆ (until ''Zero''), "Rolling Guy #2" Akira Kobayakawa ☆ (regular member until ''3''), "Rolling Guy #3" Tsutomu Imai (until ''Touge Legends''), "Rolling Guy #4" Haruhiko Miyake, "Rolling Guy #5" Hiroshi Takanayagi, "Rolling Guy #6" Takahashi Yoshimura, "Rolling Guy #6" Yusaku Kido, (''3'' to ''Street Supremacy''), "Rolling Guy #7" Mamoru Mitsuike (from ''Import Tuner Challenge'')
The most iconic recurring team of the entire series, '''Rolling Guy''' started out as a passionate team of mountain pass racers that, against all logic, decided to make the jump to highway racing. Every member drives a Toyota AE86, relying on their cars' handling capabilities and their own skills over brute acceleration and top speed.

In spite of being perenially at the bottom of the Expressway's hierarchy, Rolling Guy refuse to give up and continue to race undeterred, something that earns them their rivals' respect. They've been present in every game of the ''Tokyo Xtreme Racer'' series, to the point that they're near synonymous with it.
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As for their appearances in the ''Drift'' trilogy, the team utilizes a different sticker and goes under the name of Downhill Guy. Tropes in this folder encompass all of Rolling Guy's incarnations. For tropes regarding Satoru Kobayakawa, see his folder here.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Whilst Satoru was already very close to his subordinates, Akira arguably outdoes him in this regard upon taking over the team. As Rolling Guy #1, he's far more present than Satoru, actively listening to his teammate's demands and worries: one of the first things he did, in that regard, was lift Satoru's drifting ban. Moreso, his biggest worry, other than living up to Satoru's legacy, is making sure Rolling Guy as a whole can improve and prosper, down to the last member. As such, he puts his all towards this goal, despite his incredibly limited means to do so.
* AllegedlyDateless: Haruhiko will complain a couple of times to the players about his and his teammates' struggles with romance in ''Import Tuner Challenge''. In spite of that, he manages to score not one, but ''two'' dates shortly afterwards with fellow female racers. He'll go right back to complaining about it once those dates don't go as well as he had hoped.
* AloofLeaderAffableSubordinate: This wasn't the case at first, when Rolling Guy was first created: Satoru was heavily involved in day-to-day management, and could always be found by the other members' side. By the time they moved to the Metropolitan Expressway, however, Satoru gradually drifted away from being actively involved, alongside his other responsabilities. His NumberTwo, younger brother Akira, picked up the slack for him, bouncing all over the place to keep Rolling Guy's banner flying high and helping the other members out. This dynamic became permanent come ''2'', with Satoru only bothering to show up whenever someone tough enough to defeat the rest of the team rolled by. After ''Zero'', however, Satoru left the team and let Akira become the ''de jure'' new leader, bringing this situation to an end.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Rolling Guy #5, Hiroshi Takanayagi, is a graduate student in engineering and the most knowledgeable member of the team when it comes to mechanics and raw theory. This allows him to adapt to any course or condition by falling back on his knowledge, re-elaborating it and re-applying it to the situation as he sees fit. Moreso, it's rumored he apparently found "the perfect racing line" on the C1 Loop, through countless attempts at trial-and-error.
* TheBartender: Bartending is Tsutomu Imai's job away from street racing. Not that anyone would normally know, as it's largely irrelevant to his racing endeavours and only comes up when glancing at his bio in ''3''.
* BookSmart: Hiroshi Takanayagi, what with being a graduate student in engineering, seems to fit the classical mold of the trope: he's the team's most knowledgeable member, likely its most formally educated one, and is usually given te task on researching set-ups for the entirety of Rolling Guy. However, he proves himself to be not as smart as he boasts to be: one comment of his in ''Racing Battle: [=C1GP=]'' serves as evidence to his superficiality, as he unashamedly claims that "the more power, the better... the larger the tires, the better!" is a flawless approach to modifying cars for racing, when the issue is far more complex than that. If spoken to after defeating him in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', he'll atleast admit his awareness in having notable gaps in his knowledge and racing theory.
* TheConsigliere: Tsutomu graduates to this role upon picking up the mantle of Rolling Guy #2 starting in ''3''. Due to Akira's inexperience and self-doubt, he usually advices him on how to lead the team and what to do in various circumstances. His role isn't merely advisory, however: should Akira find himself in a pinch during battles, expect Tsutomu to come swooping in out of nowhere to try and save the day.
* DavidVersusGoliath:
** Rolling Guy take the role of David by ''default'' whenever they race on the Metropolitan Expressway. Compared to anyone else, their cars are underpowered lightweights with great agility as their only saving grace. This makes it all the more impressive whenever a member of the team manages to eke out a win against anyone else.
** When racing on the mountain passes, however, Rolling Guy play the role of ''Goliath'': their cars are perfectly suited to the tight, twisting roads, especially when going downhill. Daiki Kōnoue, Tōru Zōshigaya, and ''Touge Legends'''s player character all play the role of David when going up against them, as unexperienced greenhorns suddenly making big splashes in the world of mountain pass racing. All three unexpectedly manage to come out on top against the Kobayakawas' team.
* DoNotCallMePaul: One of the team's newest members, Mamoru Mitsuike, is... puzzled by Rolling Guy's naming convention, to say the least. Mitsuike never outwardly expresses it, but he's not particularly a fan of his new street name of Rolling Guy #7. In fact, he wishes for everyone else to refer to him by his original Nagoya street name: Torn Asunder Heartbeat.
* DontThinkFeel: Contrasting Hiroshi, with whom he joined the team and relies heavily on theory, Rolling Guy #6 Takahashi Yoshimura completely ''forgoes'' all theory whenever racing: instead, he drives his [=AE86=] purely from the feedback he got from his senses, alongside his instinct.

** Rolling Guy: to Rolling Dude (first game), Rolling Boy (''2''), Rolling (''Zero''), Rolling Man (''Street Supremacy'')
** Downhill Guy: Downhill Burns (''Drift''), Downhill Dude (''Drift'')
** Satoru Kobayakawa: to Jack Dillon (''2''), James Altenberg (''Zero''), Sato Kobayakawa (''Drift'')
** Akira Kobayakawa: to James Dillon (''2''), George Reynold, Akira Osagawa (''Drift''), Tetsu Kobayakawa (''3'', ''Chain Reaction'', ''Street Supremacy'', ''Touge Legends'')
** Tsutomu Imai: to Terry Hall (''2''), Dixon Jones (''Zero''), Masaru Imai (''Drift'')
** Haruhiko Miyake: to Brian Lowe (''2''), Ed Louis (''Zero''), Haruhiko Santaku (''Drift'')
** Hiroshi Takanayagi: to Jay Morales (''2'', ''Zero''), Hiro Takanayagi (''Drift''),
** Takahashi Yoshimura: to Rod Paglia (''2''), Mark Hill (''Zero''), Takashi Yoshimura (''3'', ''Import Tuner Challenge), Takeshi Yoshimura (''Street Supremacy'')
** Mamoru Mitsuike: Yuzuru Mitsuike (''Street Supremacy'')
* FailureHero: Rolling Guy as a ''whole'' carry this reputation. In spite of having a wide spectrum of competences and skill levels amongst its members, to the point they can potentially take over the entire Expressway in ''Street Supremacy'', they are known by everyone as "the loser team at the bottom of the Expressway". Everything the team's members try to do is bound to fail: Satoru leaving the team to prompt them to improve? Ultimately half-succeeds, as several of the original members leave shortly afterwards. Akira's attempts at living up to his brother's reputations? Greatly hindered by his own self-doubt, to the point he lets another member lead them when away from Tokyo in ''Touge Legends''. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Haruhiko trying to get himself and the others girlfriends?]] ...Yeah, that one's best not brought up again. It's extremely commendable that in spite of all of that, [[TheDeterminator they continue to keep going after all these years, looking none the worse in the process]].
* {{Foil}}: Serve as an indirect one to MAX Racing, of all teams, come ''Import Tuner Challenge''. Both have been around for countless years, closely follow one specific philosophy, and have gone through a leadership change. However, Rolling Guy regularly manages to recruit new members, even from other cities, whereas MAX Racing struggles heavily in that regard. Rolling Guy are firmly united behind their cars and dedication to "handling above all", whereas MAX Racing have been splintered into two factions due to differing approaches on how to tune their sedans, to the point it's heavily hindered the entire team. Lastly, the leadership change for Rolling Guy had a few hiccups but ultimately went smoothly, with Akira having immediately earned the others' trust and Satoru assisting them from the sidelines. The leadership change for MAX Racing, instead, was a catastrophe, with no one trusting Masaki and Omohiko doing nothing to help him settle in. Which is because he threw the race to determine the new leader, having grown tired of his own team.
* HardTruckin: Haruhiko Miyake became a truck driver because of his extreme love for driving anything: the idea of a workplace where he spent all his time behind the steering wheel was a dream come true. Furthermore, Haruhiko also fits some of the job's stereotypes, particularly the perceived manliness truck drivers carry: he's popular with his fellows for that exact reason, but accidentally turns the women racers away in the process.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Ultimately, Akira's worst opponent isn't someone belonging to another team, nor is it Satoru's shadow, but himself. Although understandably anxious due to suddenly being trust in a leadership role he wasn't prepared for, Akira found himself surrounded with friends who immediately backed him up and helped him get settled in. In spite of that, he constantly doubted himself, and he started to consider quitting highway racing in favour of returning to Omote Rokko in ''Touge Legends''. He finally grew out of this starting with his defeat by the player's hands in that very game.
* HonorBeforeReason: As proven by the success of Kyō Takahashi and Utsu Shī upon switching teams and cars, on top of Satoru's impressive rise to professional race car driver, Rolling Guy are generally talented and would be capable of going head-to-head with almost anyone... if it wasn't for their cars and their enormous deficits. Anyone else would've moved to other, more fitting cars, or heavily modified their [=AE86s=] in a similar situation, but to team members, straying away from the key ideas behind the car's factory design is unthinkable. After all, those very cars carried them all the way to this day, why should they abandon them? Thus, for their [=AE86s=]' sake, Rolling Guy remain hopelessly loyal, condemning themselves to a slow, if impossible crawl towards the top of the Expressway.
* HopelessSuitor: Poor, poor Haruhiko... he spends the ''entirety'' of ''Import Tuner Challenge'' setting up dates in a desperate attempt to find a girlfriend: on his first one, he somehow manages to get the green light for a team-wide date between Rolling Guy and the single members of the Cupid Arrows... which, according to the parties, quickly devolved into a back-and-forth over their respective cars and an insult-filled shouting match. On his second one, he gets a one-on-one date with Juicy Heaven's Voluptous Aquamarine, to the envy of a lot of his fellow drivers... which goes ''even worse'', somehow: the two try to take their date to Mount Hakone, only for Aquamarine to gap him on the mountain pass ''by pure accident''. According to Hiroshi, Haruhiko just gave up dejectedly after that one, claiming he only wants to focus on racing for a good while.
* InadequateInheritor: After succeeding him as Rolling Guy #1, it's Akira who considers himself this towards Satoru. In spite of the backing from the other members of the team, and being a far better people's person, he always feels like Satoru's long shadow is all over him. The constant praises Satoru receives most likely do not help: once word reaches him that Satoru is back in Tokyo as Rolling Master, one of Akira's goals becomes to defeat his brother to definitely prove his worth, mostly to himself.
* LegacyCharacter: Rolling Guy's street name system works this way, as whenever a team member leaves, the one hierarchically below him will inherit their number and so on. For example, when Satoru left, Akira inherited the name of Rolling Guy #1 from him, whilst Tsutomu inherited the now-vacant name of Rolling Guy #2 from Akira. For simplicity's sake, this page lists team members by their original street name upon joining the team.
* LongRunnerCastTurnover: Not as egregious as some other teams, but still present: of the original five members, only three remain, whilst Kido was only around for a cup of coffee in ''3'' and ''Street Supremacy'''s continuity.
* NumberTwo: This is the role played by whoever carries the street name of Rolling Guy #2. They're the member who is the closest to the leader in terms of relationship and skills, those who normally advertise the leader on team matters, and most important of all, those who back up the leader in battles whenever the need arises.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Both Satoru and his younger brother Akira are racing nuts who adore the [=AE86=] to the point of unreasonableness. Moreso, both express doubt at their capability of succesfully leading Rolling Guy, and both considered quitting at one point: the sole difference is that whereas Satoru actually went through with it, Akira ultimately gave that idea up.
* SupportPartyMember: As mentioned above, this is the role Rolling Guy #2 ends up taking for the leader on rare occasions wherein they need assistance in battles. The most notable case of this is Tsutomu in ''3'', where he will appear halfway through the player's battle against Akira to refill his SP Bar and assist the latter in any way necessary.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer:
** There is a minor, but nonetheless present, split in approach and philosophy within the team. One half of the members are more technically-minded drivers, preferring a drier, subtler driving style that doesn't forgo opportunistic measures to win, whereas another half is more performance-oriented, breaking out drifting techniques on the regular as they believe there is no point in winning if they do not look good and have fun whilst doing so.
** The split is clearly represented by the two Kobayakawa brothers: Satoru is the Technician, far more interested in practical approaches to reach victory, to the point of banning other members of the team from drifting, whereas Akira is the Performer, naturally flashier but compelled to emulate his older brother. After Satoru leaves the duty of leading Rolling Guy to Akira, he gradually goes back to his own style and lifts the drifting ban.
* TookALevelInBadass: Although they might still be at the rock bottom of the Expressway, it cannot be denied that Rolling Guy have come a long way: from poor kids going down Omote Rokko to respect mountain pass carvers, from Expressway greenhorns to one of the longest standing teams in Tokyo's history, they've all become hardened street racing veterans more than capable of holding their own against most opponents. The possible apex of the trope is reached in ''Street Supremacy'''s continuity, where with the player's help, they can become ''the'' strongest team in all of Tokyo, defeating the likes of Speed Master to reach that goal.
* TrueCompanions: The five founders of the team were all incredibly close to one another for years, having collectively supported their dreams and taken the daring task of conquering the Metropolitan Expressway together, just as they had done with Omote Rokko. Naturally, when Satoru left the team, Tsutomu and Haruhiko immediately stepped up to assist Akira in filling the void left behind: Haruhiko in particular was furious with Satoru for having abandoned them.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Punching bag of the Expressway they might be, Rolling Guy are still an incredibly skilled, long-tenured team with near unmatched knowledge of their [=AE86s=] and the C1 Loop: underestimating them is, frankly, a very dumb idea. [[InvokedTrope Akira will proudly declare as much to any opposing team upon defeating them in a team battle in ''Street Supremacy'']].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Yūsaku Kido, Satoru's previously unmentioned pupil, is part of the team for the duration of a flas in a pan: he joins them in ''3'', with his defining characterization being his desire to surpass his mentor, and is immediately gone after ''Street Supremacy''.
* YouAreInCommandNow: For some reason, it was Hiroshi Takanayagi who takes leadership of the team on mountain pass expeditions instead of Akira with Satoru gone. Apparently, he voluntereed for the spot because of his past experiences, and the other members raised no objections in splitting the leadership this way.
* YouCannotKillAnIdea: As seen in ''Street Supremacy'', Akira strongly believes in the idea of a "rolling spirit", which appears to be the combination of values, passions, and against-all-odds attitudes of Rolling Guy members through-out the years. Should Rolling Guy be forced to disband upon defeat, he'll defiantly react by claiming that the end of the team is not the end of the "rolling spirit", before encouraging its now-former members to carry that very spirit onwards.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: This is how Akira reacts in ''Street Supremacy'' upon being defeated by the player for the team's leadership. After a brief moment, however, [[GracefulLoser he'll get over it and accept his defeat, handing the team's reigns to the player]].

'''CURVING EDGE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Highway Prince" Kōshō Fujima ☆, "Scorching" Kōji Hibino, "25-Hour Gale" Akiichirō Watari, "Professor Taka" Takaaki Kainai, "Thunder Flare" Noriko Watanabe, "Straight Line Demon" Hidekazu Saitō (from ''2'' onwards)
One of the two first teams faced by players on the C1 Loop Outer, '''Curving Edge''' is exclusively made up of Honda drivers financed by their leader, wealthy scion "Highway Prince" Kōshō Fujima.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Takaaki Kainai was brought on-board by Kōshō specifically because of his "advanced driving theory", one he developed after much trial-and-error. He later begun videotaping his teammates' races, holding lessons to help them improve by studying their replays. [[MeaningfulName This clinical approach is what earned him the moniker of "Professor Taka" to begin with]].
* CannotSpitItOut: It's not a big secret that Noriko has long developed a crush for Kōshō. Despite that, she seems to be completely unable to confess any of her feelings towards him. The reason behind such hesitation can be found in her past, long before she joined Curving Edge: her former team imploded on itself because of a near-identical relationship, and she fears of losing her friends all over again.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Hinted at by Akiichirō's bio: he apparently comes from an history of particularly troubled family life, a subject he's touchy enough about to refuse to disclose any details about it to anyone. In spite of its vagueness, whatever happened clearly impacted him deeply. hints at a particularly troubled family life he flat-out refuses to talk about. It still has enough of an emotional impact that it's reflected in his driving, particularly his quick judgement calls and "unbelievable" mistakes, as well as his refusal to hang out with his teammates.
* TheDeterminator: Takaaki has been suffering from a life-threatening illness for a while by the events of the first game. By all accounts, racing at well over a hundred miles an hour down the Expressway is the last thing he should be doing... and yet, he does just that. His illness does nothing to limit his passion or his contribution to Curving Edge.

** Kōshō Fujima: to "Prince of the Highways" (first game), "Expressway Prince" Mark Allen II (''2''), Mark Burns (''Zero'')
** Kōji Hibino: to "No Slip" Gill Mathews (''2''), "Mr. Fire" Alexander Scoob (''Zero'')
** Akiichirō Watari: to "Blue Flash" Jamie Perez (''2''), "Wind of Night" Allen Rentch (''Zero'')
** Takaaki Kainai: to Neil "Professor" Getts (''2''), Rich "Professor" Robledo (''Zero'')
** Noriko Watanabe: to "Mad" Mary Black (''2''), Dara Yem (''Zero'')
** Hidekazu Saitō: to "Low" Joe Simon (''2''), "Road Killer" Rion Rainhart (''Zero'')
* TheFool: Kōshō is far from the sharpest tool in the shed, what with thinking money grows on trees. He's also enormously lucky, being born into an incredibly wealthy family, as well as so kind-hearted he'll throw away any money if his teammates ask him to. After all, he's the one who financed the entire team to begin with.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: In spite of officially being a member and clearly flying under the team's flag, Akiichirō prfers to almost exclusively run by his lonesome, stopping at various [=PAs=] scattered through-out Tokyo to admire the starry night sky. The situation is so bad that out of all members, he is the only one that Professor Taka does not have on video. His behaviour, whilst most likely tied to his DarkAndTroubledPast, is also particularly jarring given the close relations the rest of the team seems to enjoy.
* GeniusDitz: Kōshō [[NeverLiveItDown might think money spontaneously grows on trees]], and his idea of "car upgrades" appears to be entirely restricted to visual ones, but it cannot be denied he's a legitimately talented street racer more than capable of holding his own against opponents in more powerful cars.
* InterclassFriendship: Compared to [[EccentricMillionaire Kōshō]], the rest of the team is ''far'' from being remotely well-off: Kōji is employed at an iron works, Takaaki is a lowly scholar... and yet, everyone respects and adores their leader, in part because he doesn't put on any airs about his status, nor he pretends to be someone he's not.
* KindheartedSimpleton: One of the reasons why everyone seems to like Kōshō is because he's naturally naive, [[RunningGag what with the whole "believes money grows on trees" deal]], and somewhat boorish. Seen how he paid out of his own pockets to finance the entire team, and how he doesn't hesitate to continue financing his teammates, he's also extremly kindhearted. The others, to their credit, do not seem to take advantage of him.
* MeaningfulName: The team is named after the "peculiar" slash-like cornering of their cars compared to other vehicles due to their front engine, front-wheel-drive set-ups.
* TheSmartGuy: Professor Taka is the brains behind Curving Edge. He's the one developing theory after theory on racecraft, filming his teammates and coaching them on how to improve whilst showing them replays, and constantly collecting data. Apparently, he's known to check the unevenness of the road to be able to pick better racing lines.
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Kōshō, natch. He straight-up lost count of how much money he burned to tune up his Accord [=SiR=], alongside his financing of the other members of Curving Edge. This extends to his family: the Fujimas are outrageously rich, which gives him such a massive berth over spending... but they appear to be a bit detached from the "real" world, to the point they accidentally caused Kōshō to think money grows on trees.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Kōji and Hidekazu, in spite of being on the same team, tend to constantly butt heads due to their differing philosophies -- the former putting all his focus on cornering technique, whilst the latter believes races are decided almost exclusively on the straights. Kōji being the second-in-command whilst Hidekazu is [[NewMeat the newest recruit]] might have an hand in this dynamic.
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Per Takaaki's bio, he's been suffering from an unspecified "life-threatening illness" for a while, but that has not stopped him from racing and actively contributing to Curving Edge's improvement through data analysis and collection.

'''SS LIMITED'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Founder First Star" Kyō Takahashi ☆, "Heaven's 4 Door" Jun'ichi Kimura, "Black Rain" Sanpei Sugiyama, "Shutokou Red Flash" Takahiro Eguchi, "Sports Car Killer" Akira Shimamoto, "Originator First Star" Torakichi Yamada, Akira "Chemical" Itō (from ''2'' onwards), "Excite Carmine" Hajime Tsurumi (from ''2'' onwards)
A long-standing team whose members all drive four-door sedans, constantly working to draw out their "hidden inner potential", SS Limited have survived through many eras of the street racing world and have gone through many phases. Stagnation, change of leadership, growth, stabilization... their most recent challenge is the team's aging members: the clock ticks as they race to find worthy successors and pass the torch of sedan racing to them.
* DubNameChange
** Kyō Takahashi: to "North Star" (first game), "Speed Freak" Jimmy Richter (''2''), "Old Star" Jimmy Richter (''Zero''), "Evening Star" Miyako Takahashi (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Jun'ichi Kimura: to "4-Door" Tony Parcelli (''2''), "Heaven's Door" Oliver Jackson (''Zero'')
** Sanpei Sugiyama: to "Dirty Dude" Russ Harley (''2''), Ludvig Cho (''Zero'')
** Takahiro Eguchi: to "Poor Boy" Harry Cummins (''2''), "Red Thunder" Bernard Bailey (''Zero'')
** Akira Shimamoto: to "Car Killa" Rudy Alcott (''2''), "Sports Killer" Shilton Hasanuma (''Zero'')
** Torakichi Yamada: to "Rising Star" (first game), "Speed Demon" Tom Ruiz (''2''), "New Star" Buddy Hawkins (''Zero''), "Morning Star" (''3''), "The O.G. Star" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Akira Itō: to "Loco Brain" Paul Davids (''2''), "Chemistry" Justin Kromly (''Zero'')
** Hajime Tsurumi: to "Quick Start" Sam Pulman (''2''), Mark Burke (''Zero'')
* FriendlyRival:
** Torakichi enjoys a very healthy rivalry with Omohiko Asura of MAX Racing. The two first met when both were first leaders of their respective teams, and only seem to hold respect to one another in spite of their frequent battles.
** Likewise, Hajime Tsurumi and Takaki Wada, also of MAX Racing, openly seek one another to battle, yet trust each other enough to talk behind their respective teams' backs. The two had even planned to form a new team, until Hajime got married and had kid, which made him back out of that plan.
* {{Foil}}: SS Limited serve as one to MAX Racing, the other all-sedan team of the first twenty. The game lampshades that both, at their base, share the same concept, both used to be extremely ambitious, both aimed for supremacy on the C1 Loop, both have sports car-hating members, and both are in near-identical situation come ''Import Tuner Challenge'': long-standing shadows of their former glory with an aging line-up and a different leader in charge from their founder. However, whereas SS Limited did manage to recruit new members -- Itō and Tsurumi -- MAX Racing has retained the exact same line-up across all games they appeared in. SS Limited members get along with one another and have a healthy relationship with their current leader, who was handpicked by the founder; MAX Racing members, instead, are split in two warring factions constantly at each other's throats, and come ''Import Tuner Challenge'' tensions are growing within them too, and their new leader, who usurped the position through "combat", isn't nearly as well respected. Lastly, SS Limited's ambition, albeit damaged, is still there, as the team moved to the New Belt Line to be more competitive; MAX Racing have been so crippled by internal conflicts they're still where they begun decades ago, on the C1 Loop.
* HanlonsRazor: One driver accuses Ito of this after trying out one of his oil additives, before decrying that he was supposed to expect that, given Ito is given out the stuff for free. On the flipside, Ito not only offers the player themselves some of the stuff, but apparently uses it on his own car.
* HardTruckin: Delivery truck driver is Torakichi Yamada's day job. He's often given large deliveries, which causes him to use the Metropolitan Expressway far more than usual. Doing so lead to two sife effects: one, he learned the ins and outs of the entire network more than anyone else, and two, he grew to love it even more than he did before.
* MadScientist: Although still a student -- and later nothing more than a bachelor -- "Chemical" Itō carries the reputation of a somewhat dangerous chemist obsessed with applying them to everything. Tthe reality is a bit different: whilst definitely eccentric, Akira is not a particularly loud or bombastic personality. Nonetheless, he ''does'' adores his field of expertise... maybe a bit too much.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Chemical" Itō earned himself his street name for, what else, being a chemical buff. He loves toying with all sorts of chemical substances, such as oil additives, combustion aids, liquid for wipers, ion coatings, and so on, to the point he's integrated them into his car's tuning.
** Where does Akira Shimamoto's street name of "Originator First Star" come from? Well, he was the one who ''founded'' SS Limited, acting as the team's first leader until meeting Kyō and crowning him the new leader. In other words, he's literally the "originator" of the entire team.
* NonIndicativeName: Team leader Kyō Takahashi's street name is "Founder First Star"... despite being one of the most ''recent'' members to have joined the team. The actual founder, and previous leader, is Akira Shimamoto.
* ShoutOut: So, Jun'ichi Kimura's street name is "Heaven's 4 Door"? [[Music/BobDylan You think he knocks on any of them much?]]
* TookALevelInBadass: SS Limited were one of the original twenty teams of the Metropolitan Expressway, but otherwise struggled to truly stand out amongst the crowd, especially as more and more teams started appearing in the years following Purple Meteor's and Jintei's rise. Come ''Import Tuner Challenge'', however, and they finally managed to get their act together and break through the C1 Loop's ceiling, relocating their turf to the New Belt Line where they manage to hold their own against more competitive teams.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: SS Limited and MAX Racing were extremely close teams, what with being the only ones oriented towards sports sedan cars, and interteam friendships were not uncommon. However, according to some of the people they player can speak to in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', the two teams had an ugly falling out after the events of ''3'', to the point that one of the reasons why SS Limited moved to the New Belt Line was to steer clear of MAX Racing.

'''ELEGANT WILD'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "300 Mile Red Ruby" Yumiko Matsuyama ☆, "Deep Green" Toshitaka Nishiki, "White Revolution" Toshihiko Kin, "Hostman Hat" Hajime Minatsuki, "Black Cinderella" Miyuki Sato, "Infini Yellow" Kangorō Matsuda
A loose association of racers valuing each member's individuality, Elegant Wild wasn't exactly a team in the most traditional of senses beyond sharing stickers and recognizing a common leader. In spite of their uncoordinated choice of vehicles, individual members were always thought to have a relatively high amount of ability behind the steering wheel.
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The team dissolved with no reason or mention after the events of ''Zero'', with a sole member still running on the Tokyo Expressway... and the mountain passes of Japan. For tropes regarding him, see White Revolution's entry here.
* ActionFashionista: Miyuki's regular job is fashion model. She's also a very active racer, both on the streets and on the circuits.
* ColourfulThemeNaming: All members [[OddNameOut bar one]] have their cars' colours as part of their street name: 300 Mile ''Red Ruby'', Deep ''Green'', ''White'' Revolution, ''Black'' Cinderella and Infini ''Yellow''.
* ConspicuousConsumption: ''2'' and ''Zero'' make it clear Hajime is loaded, leading credence to his boasts about his professional success, as he can afford to throw away money and switch from a Supra [=A80=], a decently expensive car, to an NSX [=NA1=], a ''very'' expensive car, and still have some to spare for the tune-up.

** Yumiko Matsuyama: to "Red Racer" Cindy Martin (''2''), Jen Lyte (''Zero'')
** Toshitaka Nishiki: to "Tune Freak" Vic Edwards (''2''), Ernest Lee (''Zero'')
** Hajime Minatsuki: to "Ladies Man" Mike Ohara (''2''), "Hostman Hut" Sato Oshiro (''Zero'')
** Miyuki Sato: to "Lisa B-Sky" (first game), "Fashion Queen" Sheena Croft (''2''), Melody Nosce (''Zero'')
** Kangorō Matsuda: to "Infinity Yellow" (first game), "Mellow Yellow" Greg Bergman (''2''), "Unfinish Yellow" Frank Pedro (''Zero'')
* ForceAndFinesse: Miyuki's and Kangorō's styles are compared to one another in the latter's bio: the former is described as a "Western-style sword", always pushing the car to its very limits, whereas the latter is a "Japanese sword", sharper and with more flavour.
* GiftedlyBad: Hajime has some dedication to highway racing, given how he continues to race and spend copious amounts of money over it. Despite that, ''his own bio'' describes him as a terrible driver. How bad, you may ask? It takes honest negative skill to switch from the relatively stable, if not sluggish Supra [=A80=], to the easily upset NSX [=NA1=], and ''somehow'' manage to improve, even if just barely.
* HostClub: Being a host is Hajime Minatsuki's job, [[MeaningfulName if his street name didn't make that clear enough]]. He's seemingly very succesful, being the [[UnreliableNarrator self-proclaimed]] second most popular host at his club and easily manipulating his clients, but his fellow hostesses do not fall for his tricks, something that he finds shameful. Other than giving him a lot of money to throw away, this does not reflect in any way in his driving.
* OddNameOut: Of the entire group, only Hajime Minatsuki's street name, "Hostman Hat", does not contain a color.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Hajime boasts frequently about being the number two host at his club. In spite of that, no hostess is wooed or impressed by him nor his flirting. He's somewhat aware of it, but all it does is damage his ego, believing that someone of his caliber ''should'' be able to pull that off.
* ShesAManInJapan: Yumiko is referred to as a "he" in international releases of the first game: as those cut all drivers' real names and only left the street names, it is the only hint of her gender in those versions.

'''MAX RACING'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Bloody Rose" Omohiko Ashura ☆ (regular member starting from ''Import Tuner Challenge''), "Golden Beast" Masaki Koizumi ☆ (regular member until ''Import Tuner Challenge''), "Crazy Hooligan" Daisuke Iyama, "Blue Shadow" Takaki Wada, "Death Black Panther" Tanaka Sadateru, "High Speed Blue Thunder" Masanori Takaoka, "High Speed White Blade" Ryūta Sugano, "High Speed Blood Rain" Akihiro Miyashita
Takaoka, Sugano and Miyashita are considered the "Three Musketeers".

* TheAllegedBoss: In spite of Masaki having bested Omohiko in a race to become the new leader and carrying himself as such, none of the members remotely respect his authority in ''Import Tuner Challenge''. Daisuke openly complains about him being the new leader and claims he could do a better job, Omohiko does not even to bother to act as his right-hand man, and everyone else is too busy bickering amongst themselves or worrying over their personal lives.
* AwfulWeddedLife: What Takaki's wedding has seemingly degenerated into by ''Import Tuner Challenge''. Between a lack of communication between him and his wife, a potential affair, and a PrivateInvestigator shadowing him on his wife's behalf, combined with his apathy towards the entire situation and her seeming WomanScorned attitude, does not paint a pretty picture.
* BrokenAce: There was a moment in time when Masaki used to be a red hot up-and-coming racer on everybody's mouths, constantly pursuing more speed and more power. He was driven to improve himself night after night, all in an attempt to catch up and surpass his team leader, Bloody Rose, and had begun to approach his level. However, between the events of ''2'' and ''Zero'', he had a very close call, a near-accident that psychologicall shattered him: every time a race would drag on for far too long, the fear of a fatal crash would end up overwhelming in, causing his spirit to sizzle out. From then on, the super rookie he used to be became nothing but a memory, and in spite of still being capable of holding his own in shorter races, his growth came to a screeching halt.
* CharacterDevelopment: Like most members of MAX Racing, Ryūta used to think that power was ll that was necessary to succeed in highway races. Over time, however, he realized just how short-sighted such an idea was, and how the Metropolitan Expressway required more than power. Slowly, he'd start to lighten his car, focus on more the handling, and eventually, join up with the similar-minded Masanori, forming the "Three Musketeers of High Speed" with him and Akihiro. However, by the time of ''Import Tuner Challenge'', Ryūta is now growing tired of the group, disowning his previous change of heart and claiming that only Masanori ever cared about their trio, right as the situation within MAX Racing appears to finally have reached the point of no return.
* ClosetGeek: For one reason or another, Omohiko refused to come clean about his love for anime for years. That was in spite of his catchphrase-slash-motto being a ''very'' famous Gundam reference only a true fan would know. He was, [[NoodleIncident somehow]], forcefully shoved out of the closet sometime before the events of ''Import Tuner Challenge''... upon which [[ProudToBeAGeek he finally owed up to the fact and decided to reconvert his video rental store into a DVD store specializing in anime]], to great success.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Japanese sports sedans and luxury sedans such as MAX Racing's tendentially have large engines with plenty of torque, as well as horsepower "on-demand" with how easy and reliable to tune up. However, they also suffer from their massive weight, and all the weaknesses that come with it. This makes them very good at accelerating on straights, and severely limits their competitiveness in everything else. The Three Musketeers' attempt at averting this issue caused a noticeable crack in the team.
* ColourfulThemeNaming: A bit less blatant than other examples, but every member [[OddNameOut bar one]] has a colour in their street name: ''Bloody'' Rose, ''Golden'' Beast, ''Blue'' Shadow, Death ''Black'' Panther, High Speed ''Blue'' Thunder, High Speed ''White'' Blade and High Speed ''Blood'' Rain. The colour in their street names also matches the one of their respective cars.

** Omohiko Ashura: to "Speed Demon" Andy Lee (''2''), Ansorin Cripes (''Zero''), Ashura Menhiko (''3'', ''Street Supremacy'')
** Masaki Koizumi: to "Danger Dave" David Rosen (''2''), Justin Dornan (''Zero'')
** Daisuke Iyama: to "Light Boy" Fred Suzuki (''2''), Ben Norman (''Zero''), Daisuke Iiyama (''3'', ''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Takaki Wada: to "Family Man" Thomas Hill (''2''), Thomas Fox (''Zero'')
** Tanaka Sadateru: "Cheetah" Ted Burns (''2''), "Dark Panther" Jeff Love (''Zero'')
** Masanori Takaoka: to "Power Freak" Mike Salezar (''2''), Aki Kozu (''Zero'')
** Ryūta Sugano: to "Big Boy" Vern Williams (''2''), David Corrillo (''Zero''), Ryuta Kanno (''3''), Ryuta Kan-no (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Akihiro Miyashita: to "Race Freak" Oscar Munoz (''2''), Jaime Bencia (''Zero'')
* {{Foil}}:
** MAX Racing serve as one to SS Limited, the other all-sedan team of the first twenty. The game lampshades that both, at their base, share the same concept, both used to be extremely ambitious, both aimed for supremacy on the C1 Loop, both have sports car-hating members, and both are in near-identical situation come ''Import Tuner Challenge'': long-standing shadows of their former glory with an aging line-up and a different leader in charge from their founder. The differences quickly come to light under close scrutiny: MAX Racing kept their original line-up across every game, whereas SS Limited, in spite of their issue, has managed to recruit new memebrs in Itō and Tsurumi. MAX Racing members are always at odds, split into two factions and with the leader and second-in-command secretly plotting to replace one another in a never-ending cycle, whereas SS Limited members get along swimmingly. Last, but not least, SS Limited still has their original drive intact, if not somewhat dented, as they finally made the move to the New Belt Line after years on the C1 Loop. MAX Racing, instead, is so paralyzed by their constant, internal squabbling that their ambitions are completely gone, much like their leader's.
** MAX Racing also ended up as a {{Foil}} to Rolling Guy, of all teams, come ''Import Tuner Challenge''. Both have been around for countless years, closely follow one specific philosophy, and have gone through a leadership change. However, MAX Racing has retained the exact same line-up, and struggles to recruit new members due to the constant in-fighting, whereas Rolling Guy regularly replenishes its numbers. MAX Racing have been splintered in separate factions due to their differing opinions and approaches to car tuning, which crippled the team, whereas Rolling Guy are firmly united behind their [=AE86s=]. Lastly, the change in leadership has been catastrophic for MAX Racing, as no one trusts or respects Masaki, and Omohiko has done nothing to assist his successor. Rolling Guy, instead, had a few hiccups due to how the leadership changed, but it was ultimately accepted by all members, with Akira earning the others' trust and Satoru giving him and his former team help from behind the scenes.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Takaki is the Responsible Sibling to his brother Yūki's Foolish one: Takaki is a family man, relatively quiet, and always taking into consideration the needs of the others and acting accordingly, whereas Yūki is childish, self-centered, loud, and doesn't think of the consequences his actions carry beyond the immediate future. The situation is later inverted by ''Import Tuner Challenge'': Takaki, keeping secrets from his family and letting his wedding slowly sink over his street racing career, has become the Foolish sibling, whereas Yūki buckled down and started working overtime to repay his debts and make up for his mistakes, making him the more Responsible of the Wada brothers.
* ForceAndFinesse: One of the key issues behind the team's splintering: the majority of members prefer to win through raw power, whilst the Three Musketeers want to take a different approach, preferring to focus on maneuvaribility, agility and light weight.
* HiddenDepths:
** Omohiko is a big anime fan, particularly Gundam, as he decide to buy a red car because [[ShoutOut "red ones go three times as fast"]]. It became an openly known fact by ''Import Tuner Challenge'', though.
** Serious, family-oriented Takaki is secretly a big fighting games' fan, with a particular predilection towards ninja-like characters. In hindsight, this also served as {{Foreshadowing]] to Takaki's issues in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', particularly his bad tendency to keep his hobbies hidden from his loved ones.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Almost every member of the team is either a manager or an executive. In spite of their own respective flaws and issues, however, they all seem to run steady ships, proving themselves as competent at their given tasks and with no mention of worker mistreatment.
* {{Irony}}: Out of all team members, Masaki is the only to not work in a corporate environment, being a mere employee at a video rental store. By ''Import Tuner Challenge'', however, ''he'' is the one leading an entire team of managers and executives.
* MistakenForCheating: One possible interpretation of Takaki's situation in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', [[UnreliableNarrator as the game is far from clear about it]], is that his wife ''thinks'' he's cheating on him and the rumor mill picked up on it, but in reality he's just continuing his career as a street racer, which he hasn't told his family about.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: This is the dynamic of the Three Musketeers of High Speed as shown in ''Import Tuner Challenge'': Masanori is the Nice, being the more excitable and cordial to the player of the trio; Akihiro is the Mean, more irritable about the entire deal and wanting it to come to an end; and Ryūta is the In-Between, being worn down and cynical about the entire experience but analyzing it rationally, holding no grudges towards anyone. The English translation switches Akihiro and Ryūta, with the former becoming the In-Between and noting that he never had any strong feelings about the "Three Musketeers" label, whilst the latter becomes the Mean, being more vulgar and disrespectful.
* NowWhat: Masaki spent years striving to reach Omohiko's level, constantly working to improve himself and his car in a never-ending pursuit for what started to look like an idealized version of his leader at times. When the occasion arrived, the two battled, and Masaki ''finally'' defeated Omohiko, becoming MAX Racing's new leader in the process... and now, he's at a complete and utter on ''what'' to do next, with his fellow teammates being apathic to him at best and openly despising him at worst. As ''Import Tuner Challenge'' was the final release in the ''Tokyo Xtreme Racer'' series to feature MAX Racing, the players are never given an answer.
* NumberTwo: Acting as second-in-command was the role Masaki had for years, always at Omohiko's side. By ''Import Tuner Challenge'', however, the roles have reversed, with Omohiko now Masaki's second-in-command... one who really doesn't act like one, since he lost any reason to care about MAX Racing and is planning to retire.
* OddNameOut: Daisuke Iyama's street name, "Crazy Hooligan" is the only one out of the entire team to not contain a colour.
* ThePeterPrinciple: Masaki Koizumi is a competent racer, and worked very well as Omohiko's second-in-command, constantly shadowing him and learning from him in spite of the trauma he picked up between ''2'' and ''Zero''. He eventually defeated Omohiko to become MAX Racing's new leader before ''Import Tuner Challenge''. However, he's clearly out of his depth in his new role, with no idea on what he's supposed to do as he continues to carry himself as a second-in-command, focusing more on the player than his rebellious teammates. As a result, the team's self-destruction is closer than ever, and Masaki has already burned himself out trying to stop out. Which is ''exactly'' what Omohiko intended when he made him the leader by throwing the race against him.
* PointyHairedBoss:
** Masaki means well, but he clearly has no idea on what he's supposed to do as team leader, having no previous experience nor anyone to give him any form of advice. As such, he lets one of his teammates get away with blatant disrespect, whilst the Three Musketeers continue to act independently of MAX Racing. He'll complain about how tiring his entire situation is to the player is spoken to after being defeated.
** Omohiko, the previous leader, already suffered from an on-off personality and a driving style that made him unpopular, along with having overseen the formation of the Three Musketeers and done nothing to reign the trio in or come to a deal with them. What truly cemented him as this trope, however, were his last actions as leader of MAX Racing: he goaded Masaki into facing him for the leadership, before purposefully throwing the race, all out of general dissatisfaction with the team and everyone related to it. In other words, Omohiko set the very team he founded up for implosion, possibly ruining the standing of his fellow drivers and friends, merely because he was tired of the direction they had taken.
* ProudToBeAGeek: After being a ClosetGeek for years, Omohiko has finally owed up to it by ''Import Tuner Challenge'', having reconverted his video rental store into a very successful DVD store specializing in anime.
* ShoutOut: Reportedly, Omohiko is fond of saying "a red car is three times faster", which is why he only buys red ones. His own bio lampshades that he might be watching too much anime.
* SkewedPriorities: Takaki has, reportedly, been having an affair with another female racer by ''Import Tuner Challenge'', which has lead his wife to hire The Rook to look into the situation. How did Takaki react to it upon learning the news? With disappointment towards his wife... because The Rook has been shadowing him on her request, and ''not because of his achievements as a street racer''.
* SoreLoser: Omohiko has a tough time accepting defeats, and will often mumble and complain under his breath about them. This isn't because of any superiority complex, but rather due to his refusal to throw in the towel: to him, being forced to accept defeat is akin to being forced to give up.
* SplitPersonality: Omohiko is said to normally be very mild-mannered in every day life. The ''moment'' he sits behind the wheel, however, he does a complete one-eighty and turns into an extremely vicious and reckless driver. Whilst part of his racing strategy, this has caused his reputation amongst his fellows to sink.
* TheStarscream:
** Despite respecting Omohiko, Masaki never hid his ambitions of eventually overtaking his leader, patiently waiting in his shadow and learning from him in the meantime. He finally got his wish between the events of ''3'' and ''Import Tuner Challenge''... [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor at a point when he had given up said ambition, trusting him into the leadership of a team on the brink of collapse]].
** By ''Import Tuner Challenge'', it's Masanori who has been hyping up his future plans to take over the team alongside Ryūta and Akihiro to bring their vision to fruition, even inviting the player to join them whenever they'll have overthrown Masaki.
* ThrowingTheFight: As revealed by speaking with both after defeating them, Masaki suspects Omohiko of having thrown the race for the leadership he was forced into... and Omohiko ''confirms'' this to the player, saying he wanted to pass all responsabilities to Masaki, completely disilllusioned with MAX Racing and considering retirement.
* TookALevelInCynic:
** Omohiko before ''Import Tuner Challenge'' was a secretly passionate man, one who invested a lot of money in his car, used to overwhelm his opponents to defeat them, and appeared to be very ambitious, to the point some looked up to him. Omohiko by the time of ''Import Tuner Challenge'', instead, is a bitter, jaded man who has given up all ambition and plans on retiring, even if it ends up killing the team. [[CynicismCatalyst The realization that MAX Racing's level was never that good, including his own, seems to have killed any fighting spirit he had left]].
** Ryūta and Akihiro must have believed in the idea behind the Three Musketeers of Speed and been far friendlier to Masanori years ago, as they all ended up with matching street names. Ryūta, in particular, had naturally gravitated towards Masanori thanks to their shared tuning philosophy. In ''Import Tuner Challenge'', however, the two seem to have completely given up on the concept, bitterly noting that they will never gain enough traction to actually do anything.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: MAX Racing and SS Limited were extremely close teams, what with being the only ones oriented towards sports sedan cars, and interteam friendships were not uncommon. However, according to some of the people they player can speak to in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', the two teams had an ugly falling out after the events of ''3'', to the point that they drive on separate sections of the Expressway to purposefully avoid running into one another.
* WithFriendsLikeThese:
** The team used to be a lot more tight-knit in the early days, and even when the Three Musketeers of High Speed first formed in ''Zero'', things weren't overly problematic. By ''3'', however, the Three Musketeers ended up at odds with the entire team due to irreconcilable differences in personal philosophy, leading to frequent arguments and factionalism. By ''Import Tuner Challenge'', it's become hard to believe MAX Racing is an actual team.
** Come ''Import Tuner Challenge'', even the Musketeers themselves have been getting into one another's faces even the Musketeers are growing at odds with one another: in spite of supposedly representing a new, different approach to sedan racing and Masanori's plans to take over the team, Akihiro and Ryūta are growing tired of the entire shtick, with either openly insulting him depending on the version.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: This is how Golden Beast reacts upon defeating the player in ''Import Tuner Challenge'': after seeing the rest of MAX Racing defeated by them, he was not expecting this result.
-->'''Golden Beast''': Hey, you've gotta take me seriously. Is this really the best you can do?

'''DIAMOND IMAGE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Lightning Shift" Takuya Hagiwara ☆, "Lone Wolf" Manabu Ishī, "Spring Roll" Itsuki Ōuchi, "Silver Bullet" Jun'ichi Kadomatsu, "Airblade" Kazuki Nakanishi, "Yellow Angel" Asuka Nakanishi, "Lightning Wisdom" Yūji Minobe
Diamond Image consisted entirely of drivers of small, lightweight, well-tuned machines. With only a select few elite members capable of holding their own on the New Belt Line, stand-out amongst them team leader "Lightning Shift" Takuya Hagiwara, the group had strong unity.
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In spite of that, Diamond Image dissolved when their leader was noticed by the owner of a professional racing team and recruited for those endeavors. As he waits to make his grand debut, Hagiwara returned to mountain pass racing to keep his skills sharp.
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Tropes regarding "Lightning Shift" Takuya Hagiwara in his other appearances can be found here.

* TheAllegedBoss: Takuya is ''de jure'' Diamond Image's boss, the one around which every other member gathers. ''De facto'', however, he's almost completely absent from anything involving them, to the point that by ''3'', he has openly declared he needs to focus on himself after wrecking his [=AE86=]. The other members, however, do not seem to mind.
* AloofLeaderAffableSubordinate: Takuya has been described as distant from the rest of Diamond Image, not really taking care of the team or its members. By contrast, his second-in-command Ishī is unflappably jovial, in spite of swimming in debt, which lead him to take over the day-to-day management of the team. In spite of that, Hagiwara remains vital in his position as leader, as his aura of charisma is what holds Diamond Image together to begin with.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Jun'ichi's silver [=180SX=] is renowed across Tokyo for having hit a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour on the Yokohama Line. To reach that speed, however, the car had to be set up with very long gearing, which puts it at heavy disadvantage against cars that accelerate faster than it. Moreso, because the car's body was exclusively lightened in the pursuit of such speeds, it's incredibly unstable in corners and constantly looks on the verge of losing control.
* CameraFiend: Asuka started off as a member of her college's camera club before graduating to full-time professional photographer by the time of ''3'': her being assigned to take photos at a drifting event during her student years is what led her to get interest in the world of racing. Her experience as a photographer gives her excellent peripherical and long-distance vision, which she uses to great effect in races.
* {{Courier}}: Again, as a Takumi Expy, Lightning Shift's job is to deliver goods for food-related establishments such as milk farms or noodle restaurants.

** Takuya Hagiwara: to "Savage" Steve Carter (''2''), "Thunder Shift" Gunter Drunter (''Zero''), "Lightning Shifter" (''Drift''), "Super-Shifter" (''Street Supremacy'')
** Manabu Ishii: to "Charge Man" Sam Shorr (''2''), Adolf Berger (''Zero'')
** Itsuki Ouchi: to "Tornedo" Tim West (''2''), "Spring Rain" Noah Astbury (''Zero''), "Egg Roll" (''3'')
** Jun'ichi Kadomatsu: to "Rhythm Freak" Brad Eliot (''2''), Willy Cantos (''Zero'')
** Kazuki Nakanishi: to "Radar Racer" Evan Fink (''2''), "Troubleshooter" Rich Yau (''Zero'')
** Asuka Nakanishi: to "Aero Angel" Julie Carmine (''2''), "Yellow Angel" Julius Vick (''Zero'')
* FragileSpeedster: The team members' cars are all small and light in weight. Very agile, with some having the necessary tuning and set-up to reach incredible speeds, but also unstable and lacking in immediate power.
* MeaningfulName: Itsuki earned his street name, "Spring Roll Itsuki", through his frequent trips to Yokohama's Chinatown: upon coming back, he'd always carry spring rolls to share with the rest of the team and any other willing racer.
* NonIndicativeName: You'd think that someone with the street name of "Lone Wolf" would be an extremely reserved loner. Manabu is ''anything but'', being a very social, upbeat person who acts as the ''de facto'' leader of the team due to Takuya's own issues.
* PerpetualPoverty: Somehow, Manabu manages to carry through life and continue his university studies alongside his racing endeavours. That is after he, in this order: maxed out a credit card, bought and tuned a car, wrecked it, maxed out another credit card, bought and tuned another car, got a whole bunch of loans, and had a bankruptcy process opened against him. One that's been underdoing for years.
* PotteryBarnPoor: Manabu doesn't have a stable job, if any job to begin with, due to his ongoing university studies. He's also in perennial debt, with two maxed out credit cards to pay off, and an ongoing bankruptcy process. In other words, he's supposed to be as poor as legally possible. That, somehow, did not stop him fro buying a second [=AE86=] after wrecking his first one, and he can still afford an expensive hobby such as racing regularly.
* SameSurnameMeansRelated: Both Kazuki and Asuka share the surname "Nakanishi", something the latter quickly learned upon joining Diamond Image. Although they aren't related, and their shared surname is mere coincidence, this created a one-sided rivalry between the two, with Asuka wishing to battle against Kazuki to establish "the better Nakanishi".
* ShesAManInJapan: In international releases of ''Zero'', Asuka Nakanishi became a man called Julius Vick.
* TechnicalEuphemism: Kazuki Nakanishi's car is equipped with a "radar". His bio in ''Zero'' would elaborate upon that, explaining that said "radar" has "saved his life on several occasions" but has been "malfunctioning" lately. Combined with his second bio, it appears that he's actually referring to his glasses, which helped him out in several situations but have been giving him trouble due to his developing agstigmatism... except, ''3'' clarifies that no, the latter issue is completely unrelated and he has a ''legitimate, working, military land radar'' installed on his car.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: For Itsuki Ōuchi, it's spring rolls. He buys them in bulk whenever he's in Yokohama, and not just for his teammates, as he claims he'll eat all of them by himself if no one wants any in ''Racing Battle: [=C1GP=]''.
* WeakButSkilled: Barring Jun'ichi, whose car better fits the idea of "Powerful, but Unstable", all other members' cars are towards the lower end of the scale power-wise. Even if power-to-weight is taken into account, other heavier cars easily surclass them. Where Diamond Image excels, however, are the drivers behind the cars' wheels: they're all talented enough to be able to extract nothing short of a hundred percent out of them, which allows them to hold their own against other New Belt Line teams.

'''FINE DRIVE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Crimson Meteor" Yūichi Iketani ☆, "Silvester" Yōichi Watanabe, "Hell's Drifter" Toshimitsu Suzuki, "Shimokitazawa 2000cc" Satoshi Hoshino, "Drift Baby" Katsunori Uchimura, "Funky Monkey" Teruki Yoshida, "Natural Soldier" Takashi Nishino, "Fire Bird" Toshinobu Kurosawa
With a shared love of Nissan's S-Chassis, '''Fine Drive''' were one of the oldest teams on the C1 Loop. Prohibiting selfishness and dangerous driving, the team's members stood out for being the first to refuse to block other cars or meander aimlessly, although many decried them as "hypocritical hindrances" due to their love for drifting.
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The team dissolved sometime before the events of ''Import Tuner Challenge'', with only one member remaining active. For tropes regarding him, "Shimokitazawa 2000cc" Satoshi Hoshino, see here.
* ArtifactName: Toshimitsu's street name, "Hell's Drifter", was originally meant as a short-hand way to describe him as a "drifter from hell". Upon getting the chance to witness his proficiency in the art of drifting, however, Tokyo's crowds accidentally concluded it actually meant "one ''hell'' of a ''drifter''". [[SureLetsGoWithThat Instead of correcting them, Toshimitsu went along with the newfound interpretation]], causing the original meaning of the name to go lost to history.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Combined with ThereAreNoCoincidences, this seems to be one of the driving philosophies of many team members. Silvester comes close to almost name-dropping the trope in its entirety in ''Street Supremacy'': when defeated by a player who joined Fine Drive, he'll declare it's destiny for him to follow them.
* BreakTheHaughty: Teruki, in the first game, used to be an extremely arrogant driver, declaring proudly and loudly that "only rear-wheel-drive cars are true cars", looking down on anyone who drove anything else, and boasting about his year-long winning streak. Between games, however, ''something'' happened that caused him to, at the very least, become a lot more quiet and reserved. It's later implied he lost against somsone driving one of the front-wheel drive cars he disregarded so much.
* CantCatchUp: Toshimitsu is, objectively speaking, one of the slowest members of the team due to his tendency to break into extremely flashy, yet extremely pointless drifts that eat up his momentum and tires. He is painfully aware of this, and has been working to improve in every other area to make up for it with little results, but his dedication to his "craft" causes him to refuse the simple solution of driving in a more conservative manner.
* ChallengeSeeker: Silvester actively seeks out opponents to face and declare rivals. He only feels happy when he has someone else to challenge and defeat, to the point he started feeling discouraged, if not downright dejected, by having no viable opposition at a point.
* DubNameChange:
** Yūichi Iketani: to "Red Comet" (first game), "Mr. Control" Sam Bergman (''2''), "Red Meteor" Mario Meuller (''Zero''), "Shooting Star" (''3'', ''Street Supremacy'')
** Yōichi Watanabe: to [[BarelyChangedDubName "Sylvester"]] (first game, ''Street Supremacy''), "Racer V" Vinny Marcos (''2''), [[BarelyChangedDubName "Sylvester"]] Jose Arrera (''Zero''), [[BarelyChangedDubName "Sylvestre"]] (''3'')
** Toshimitsu Suzuki: to "Drift Devil" Ken Nishi (''2''), Bill Jenkins (''Zero''), "Drifter in Hell" (''3''), "Drifter from Hades" (''Street Supremacy'')
** Satoshi Hoshino: to "S13" Gary Nelson (''2''), "King of 2000cc" Philip Tuttle (''Zero'')
** Katsunori Uchimura: to "2000cc" Joey Brooks (''2''), "Drift King" Nathan Belini (''Zero''),
** Teruki Yoshida: to "FR Freak" Glen Powell (''2''), Micky Schneider (''Zero''), Akinori Yoshida (''3''), Shoki Yoshida (''Street Supremacy'')
** Takashi Nishino: to "Newbie" Ricky Shulman (''2''), Cary Specht (''Zero''), "Natural-Born Soldier" (''Street Supremacy'')
** Toshinobu Kurosawa: to "My Way" Will Stiller (''2''), "Fire Bird" Dan Kazi (''Zero'')
* {{Fanboy}}: The entire team is made out of S-chassis fanboys, and it shows, but no one can top Satoshi Hoshino in that regard: he talks almost exclusively about Silvia [=S13s=], leading others to barely interact with him as a result.
* FriendlyRival: Yuichi has found in one in Toshio Kabaya, a fellow team leader who leads Gesellschaft over on the New Belt Line. When both found out they share the same dream of becoming professional racers, they became friends, but also open rivals.
* GracefulLoser: As shown in ''Street Supremacy'', Yuichi takes his losses surprisingly well, no matter how bad they end up being. Even when defeated by players to take his place as Fine Drive's leader or absorb his team into theirs, he takes the consequences surprisingly instride. The reason why he reacts this way is likely tied to his belief of ThereAreNoCoincidences, meaning there is no reason for him to be upset over defeat.
* GoalInLife: Through-out the entire series, Yuichi's dream is to be able to become a professional racer. To reach this ambitious goal, he decided to use the Metropolitan Expressway as a training ground and eventual springboard to launch himself into greater things. He was eventually noticed and approached by scouts from various professional racing teams, atleast in ''Street Supremacy''s continuity.
* ItsAllMyFault: If a player who joined Fine Drive in ''Street Supremacy'' doesn't replace Yuichi as leader and another team defeats them and forces them to disband, Yuichi will tell the player it's not their fault, putting the blame squarely on himself.
* TheResenter: Katsunori resents Satoshi for a slew of reasons, but chief amongst them is how the latter proclaimed himself "the strongest two-litre engine driver". That "title", so to speak, is something Katsunori had already claimed for himself, atleast from his point view: for a driver whom he deems inferior, those words should have never left his mouth. It only got worse when Satoshi actually beat him in battle when challenged.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: The trope is often a topic of discussion amongst team members, as Fine Drive is known for their drifting skills, but some members have considered different approaches. Toshinobu is the one who holds this debate the closest to his heart: on one side, he learned to moderate his drifts, eliminating unnecessary counter-steer and speeding up notably... on the other, he fears this will put him at odds with the rest of his team, as his "isn't true drifting". Caught between these two contradictory situations, he will pull out unneccessarily flashy drifts for the others' sake, but they might cost him the win in the process.
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: The idea appears to be a commonly held belief amongst many on the team, judging by their comments in ''Street Supremacy''. The one who represents the trope most, however, is Yuichi: he constantly repeats how coincidences don't exist, to just about anyone he runs into. He'll tell this to a player upon joining Fine Drive, a player who just defeated him to become the team's new leader, or even a player leading another team who defeated him and is about to absorb Fine Drive. After all, even mere meetings are no coincidences to him.

'''TWISTER'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Scorching Mirage" Kazuo Kasai ☆, "Smile 0 Yen" Yasuyuki Sakainori, "SWEET BLUES" Rina Kawamoto, "Blue Writer" Tadashi Mochida, "Shooting Star" Daisuke Makihara, Chōei "Baron" Kagetsu, "Shutokou Drizzle" Shirou Hosoyama (from ''2'' onwards)
Named afteir the "rythmic twisting" of the members' cars, and with an obsession for the rotary engine at the forefront, '''Twister''' has existed since time immemorial. Surviving through mockery after mockery, internal feuds, and other teams' extinction, Twister now faces a concrete, yet horrifying possibility: that they might end up outlasting the very rotary engine that powered them through the decades and that they still love so dearly.

* BlueBlood: Chōei Kagetsu is the son of a nobleman, and a member of the wealthy and famous Kagetsu clan.
* CharacterDevelopment: Chōei starts off as absent-minded, superficial, and somewhat moody in the first games, on top of being relatively untalented. By ''Import Tuner Challenge'', however, he's started to become a better driver, as well as realizing that money does not matter as much as passion: if spoken to after being defeated, he'll reflect on how winning or losing depends on the love and confidence one puts behind their car.
* ConspicuousConsumption: "Baron" Kagetsu, as the scion of a famous, wealthy noble family, does not hesitate to throw money around. [[{{Backstory}} He first became interested in racing]], as revealed in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', upon being gifted a foreign sports car for his eighteenth birthday... only to ''immediately'' buy an RX-7 FD and switch to it after riding shotgun in a friend's. Upon acquiring his beloved car, he has invested enormous amounts of in visual and engine tuning, far more than most other runners could ever afford. Moreso, as part of his patronage, he bankrolls Shirou Hosoyama's life until in exchange of his presence on the team.
* DubNameChange:
** Kazuo Kasai: to "Shimmering Illusion" (first game), "The Hellion" Timmy Evans (''2''), "Burning Mirage" Doug Molinari (''Zero''), "The Incandescent Flame" (''3''), "Red-Hot Mirage" (''Street Supremacy''), "Blazing Mirage" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Yasuyuki Sakainori: to "Easterner" Dale Sanders (''2''), "Smile" Elmer Futch (''Zero''), [[BarelyChangedDubName Yasuyuki Sakairi]] (''3''), "Smiles Free" [[BarelyChangedDubName Yasuyuki Sakairi]] (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Rina Kawamoto: to "The Weaver" Rena Sanchez (''2''), Rena Alexi (''Zero''), [[BarelyChangedDubName Suzuna Kawamoto]] (''3'', ''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Tadashi Mochida: to [[BarelyChangedDubName "Blue Rider"]] (first game, ''Import Tuner Challenge''), "Groucho" Adam Simmons (''2''), Willy McLean (''Zero''), "Blue Lighter" (''3''
** Daisuke Makihara: to Rob Savoy (''2''), Brutus Varnes (''Zero''),
** Chōei Kagetsu: to "The Duke" (first game), "Rich" Rick Smith III (''2''), Bluto Romori (''Zero''), Nagahide Kagetsu (''3'', ''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Shirou Hosoyama: to "Down & Out" Ken Rice (''2''), "Rainy Day" Edwin Guanako (''Zero'')
* TheGift: Rina Kawamoto is considered by many to be a natural racing talent. Her driving looks seamless to outside observers, something that many long-time veterans fails at. However, in spite of her gift, she is still learning the ropes: her lack of experience rears its head in battles, where her racecraft becomes rough and her interactions with her opponents border on dangerous. Esentially, she's also UnskilledButStrong.
* HeroWorshipper: Daisuke Makihara holds deep admiration towards Yōichi Sumi of Super Speed Wagon, to the point of near-idolization. He became an highway racer because his senpai was an highway racer, and that appeared to be the best possible way to get closer to him. However, that admiration ran dry by the time of ''3'': Sumi graduated from university and left the world of street racing altogether, leaving behind a burned out Daisuke with no goal or direction.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Yasuyuki works as a manager for a burger store located in Tokyo, answering directly to a company based out of Kansai Prefecture. Despite being somewhat lower on the corporate ladder than usual examples, he nonetheless retains complete control over his store, and runs a tight ship. His direct superiors, the company's owners, are amazed and extremely appreciative of his work ethic.
* LastOfHisKind: With Rotary Revolution's dissolution and the rotary engine having fallen by the wayside, Twister remain the last team to be entirely rotary-powered by ''Import Tuner Challenge'', the last bastion of a by-gone era of street racing.
* LoveCannotOvercome: Ultimately, Kazuo's passion and dedication to racing was unreconciliable with his personal life: by ''Import Tuner Challenge'', his wife abandoned him due to his refusal to quit, leaving him up to his neck in debt.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: As with other teams, Twister is roughly split amongst two blocks: the "grippers", who prefer simpler, straightforwards, grip-oriented set-ups, and the "drifters", who pivot towards a flashier, showman-like style. Kazuo Kasai [[TakeAThirdOption changes his approach depending on the situation]]. As team leader, he also worries about the divisions between his teammates, fearing they might cause more trouble than they're worth and ultimately cause the team to split. By ''Import Tuner Challenge'', his worries appear to be unfounded.
* ShipTease: A long-running tease exists between Rina Kawamoto and Tadashi Mochida, one that first started in ''Zero'' and is still ongoing by ''Import Tuner Challenge''. To make a long story short, an apparent rivalry developed into a repicrocal crush by ''3'', with both sides being unable to come clean about their feelings. Between those events and ''Import Tuner Challenge'', Tadashi finally mustered up enough courage to come clean and confess his feelings... leaving Rina dumbstruck. In reaction, she laid out a challenge: if he could beat her in a race, she would go out on a date with him. This decision set both right back to step one: Tadashi is now trying to find the confidence to pick up the gauntlet and face her, whilst Rina grows frustrated with his perceived lack of commitment.
* ShippingTorpedo: In a case of self-inflicted ShippingTorpedo, Tadashi at first tried to dispel the rumors about himself and Rina by insisting he only saw her as a FriendlyRival. Be it true at the time, or mere self-denial, his attempt to sink that ship obviously failed, as the two have fallen head-over-heels for one another by ''3''... they just have trouble admitting it.
* StarvingArtist: Shirou Hosoyama is a classical case of the trope: a young, aspiring artist who is dead set on breaking through as a singer but continues to struggle in an incredibly cut-throat industry and has no other way to financially support himself. Luckily for him, "Baron" Kagetsu decided to become his patron, financing his life... in exchange of Shirou joining Twister and being around him. He finally got his big break, however, by the time of ''Import Tuner Challenge'', not requiring Kagetsu's patronage anymore but nonetheless remaining a loyal member of Twister.
* StrongAndSkilled: "Scorching Mirage" Kazuo Kasai, Twister's leader, is a noticeable racing talent, famous for his cornering skill and adaptability in various circumstances. He combines it with a near-decade of racing experience, being one of longest-standing active racers by the time of ''Import Tuner Challenge''. This is enough to be capable of effortelssly leading the entire team by sheer respect from his performance and capabilities alone.
* UpperClassTwit: "Baron" Kagetsu is the rich scion of a world-famous, wealthy noble family. He throws enormous amounts of money at various tuners to work on his car, yet remains one of the least-talented racers amongst the ranks of Twister. In spite of driving a "monster", he lacks the technique to utilize it to its full potential, and if he's not in the "right mood", he will throw the race in favour of his opponents. He's gradually grown out of this trope by ''Import Tuner Challenge'', however: in spite of his performance still being lacking, he takes racing far more seriously, and developed some notable self-awareness about how money, in his circumstances, cannot do everything.
* {{Workaholic}}:
** Yasuyuki is described as incredibly thorough and dilligent in his work as a manager, to the point of being duly noticed and appreciated by his direct superiors. This mentality extends to his everyday efforts, from learning to fit in amongst Tokyo's crowds after relocating to the metropolis, to constantly working on improving his racecraft.
** Shirou is beyond determined to make his singing career take off and make it his living, no matter how long it might take or how many bumps in the road he might hit. He's constantly workign towards this goal, going well beyond that the normall call of duty would be for freelance artists like him. He puts a very similar amount of effort into racing, to the point he quickly became one of the fastest-improving rookies of Tokyo and a well-respected member of Twister in an incredibly short amount of time.


'''R. GANGS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Shiver Drift Dancer" Toshiki Kawakami ☆, "Street Dancer" Shūichi Takizawa (until ''3''), "Hell's Bartender" Tadashi Kuroi, "Speed Professor" Noritaka Motoue, "Wind Impala" Takeshi Harada, "Black Mirage" Kazuo Nikaidō (until ''3''), "Rain Drop" Shou Nakanishi
The ''other'' all-[=AE86=] team, atleast sometimes, the '''R. Gangs''' have been around for a very long time, enough to have a noticeable edge over all other competitors in know-how and experience. In spite of how long they've been around, and how many times they changed their turf, the team still maintains the very same aspirations they've had since day one: become the strongest team inTokyo.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Noritaka Motoue is well known for his purely theoretical study and approach to racing. Through data collection and logical analysis, he set up various computer simulations to train himself, which is no small feat... [[InvertedTrope but the transition from theory to practice has been rough for him: Noritaka is not as good of a driver as his studies lead one to believe, with his best skill being his launches at the start of races]]. In spite of that, [[MeaningfulName this has earned him the street name of "Speed Professor"]].
* ArtifactName: Tadashi's street name, "Hell's Bartender", was born due to his job of, what else, bartending. By ''Import Tuner Challenge'', the name still stuck with him in spite of having changed jobs in the meantime. This is mitigated by how long he's carried the name, as well as how it also refers to his unique driving style of making his car move back-and-forth like a cocktail shaker.
* TheBartender: Tadashi Kuroi's job was bartending on night shifts. As highway racing takes place near exclusively at night, this obviously caused friction between the two endeavours. Ultimately, Kuroi decided to change jobs, becoming a daytime liquor store employee by ''Import Tuner Challenge'' in the name of his main passion.
* BerserkButton: As an Osaka native, Shou Nakanishi is very proud of Kansai Prefecture, where he comes from. As such, hearing a non-native speak with a fake Kansai accent drives him up a wall like nothing else. Generally, he strongly dislikes non-Kansai people's cultural posturing towards his home prefecture.
* BigBrotherWorship: Shou adores his [[TheGhost unseen]] older brother to incredible degrees: most importantly, he became a street racer almost exclusively to followin his footsteps and imitate him. There is a limit to how far this pseudo-worship can go, however: upon realizing how he could never break out of his shadow as long as he stayed in Osaka, Shou packed up and left for Tokyo to make a name for himself.
* CaptainCrash: Takeshi Harada is, ''somehow'' for an ambitious street racer, more known for the massive amounts of times he's crashed his car than anything else. This is because he refuses to let off of the gas pedal at any time, even when a corner or an obstacle is approaching.
* ChallengeSeeker: Toshiki is on a constant prowl for new challengers to take on, taking on all comers to prove the superiority of his turbocharged [=AE86=]. In particular, he prefers to take on cars far more powerful than his, [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction both for how challenging defeating them is]] and in order to prove some kind of point about [[UnskilledButStrong power]] and [[WeakButSkilled skill]].
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Takeshi Harada is a very ambitious street racer with one massive, glaring flaw... that being, his downright refusal to let off of the gas pedal. Even if there is a turn coming up or an obstacle in the way. This caused him to crash his car an unbelievable amount of times, developing a matching reputation in the process. His teammates worry about him constantly as a result... but ''somehow'', his unawavering pursuit of speed earned him a close friend in the form of another notorious loose cannon, Akihiro Fukui of Free Way.
* DubNameChange:
** Toshiki Kawakami: to "King" James Beck (''2''), Sheila Khosla (''Zero''), "Chilling Drift Dancer" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Shūichi Takizawa: to "Canyon Racer" Tony Giodano (''2''), Karen Martin (''Zero''),
** Tadashi Kuroi: to "Shake 'n Bake" Hal Whitman (''2''), Joyce Evans (''Zero''), "Hellish Bartender" (''3'')
** Noritaka Motoue: to "Hot Head" Mark Gruber (''2''), "Prof. Speedy" Jenni Kim (''Zero''), Toritaka Honjo (''3''), Noritaka Motogami (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Takeshi Harada: to "Gazelle" (first game), "Lead Foot" Terry Mills (''2''), Kazzy Hokulani (''Zero''), Tsuyoshi Harada (''3''), Go Harada (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Kazuo Nikaidō: to "Black Illusion" (first game), "Rev Freak" Alberto Luna (''2''), Kelly Gin (''Zero''), "Mirage" (''3'')
** Shou Nakanishi: to "Osaka Kid" Peter Gills (''2''), Darleene Barien (''Zero''), H. Utagawa (''3''), Sho Utagawa (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
* FamedInStory: Shou's ''brother'', per his bio in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', was at one point considered to be Osaka's fastest racer. However, he's never directly mentioned by name.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The reason behind Tadashi Kuroi's street name being "Hell's Bartender" is... him working as a bartender. [[ArtifactName That was, until he changed jobs]] by ''Import Tuner Challenge''.
%%* ForgottenFallenFriend: A non-lethal example (maybe), worth mentioning due to the R. Gangs retaining the exact same line-up and being established as a close-knit group. Shūichi and Kazuo are both notably absent upon the team's reapparance in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', yet no one in their ranks even remotely mentions them.
* FriendlyRival:
** Toshiki, Akira Kobayakawa of Rolling Guy and Manabu Ishī of Diamond Image all work towards the exact same goal -- their respective team's supremacy over the Metropolitan Expressway. In spite of that, they're all close friends who share a very strong passion over the [=AE86=].
** Takeshi Harada and Akihiro Fukui of Free Way consider themselves to be "flying buddies": they're very amicable with one another, but they're also always competing to see who can reach the highest speeds on the Expressway.
* MeaningfulName: Tadashi Kuroi was originally bestowed his street name of "Hell's Bartender" because of his job. Over time, however, the name gained a second meaning, as his driving evolved towards a peculiar style: due to its set up and his approach to attacking, Tadashi's [=AE86=] can be seen consstantly shaking back-and-forth, left and right... ''exactly'' like the cocktail shakers he used as a bartender. When he changed jobs, one of the reasons why the name stuck was because of that very driving style.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Back when he was a mountain pass racer, Shūichi Takizawa claims to have had a very good a win ratio of eight-to-ten, usually found in the most skilled of drivers. Upon relocating Tokyo and joining the R. Gangs, however, he found himself quickly outmatches, outclassed, ''and'' outgunned by almost everyone, causing his win ratio to plummet to a lowly three-to-ten. To try to recoup his losses and, atleast, end up as a "Normal Fish in a Normal Pond", he's been working for a while on the "ultimate upgrade" for his [=AE86=] with a friend.
* OldFriend: As revealed in ''3'', the usually off-the-cuff Toshiki is a long-time acquaintance of both Kobayakawa brothers, dating back to when they all started driving their [=AE86s=]. Whereas he is more of a FriendlyRival with the younger Akira, he has this kind of relationship with the older, straight-laced Satoru, who unexpectedly poppedback into his life as Rolling Master after having left the Expressway a couple of years before, to the point Toshiki is one of the few people with whom Satoru confides himself after having left Rolling Guy
* TheRival: Shūichi and Tadashi are frequently at odds with one another and do not get along well, always competing and trying to one up the other in spite of being teammates who are supposed to be working towards the same goal. The reason behind this mutual dislike and rivalry, however, is completley unknown.
* SpeedDemon: Takeshi is obsessed with not just reaching high speeds, but ''the highest'' possible speeds on the Metropolitan Expressway, to the point he keeps the throttle pedal firmly planted on the ground no matter what. Unsurprisingly, he's friends with Free Way's own resident SpeedDemon, Akihiro Fukui.

'''TOKIO JUNGLE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': Mitsuru "Io" Iona ☆, "[=MJ6feet6=]" Atsushi Baba, "Jet Black Hot Wind" Kyōji Honda, "White Fox" Toshiki Nagaregawa, "Salty Dog" Kachiaki Mizushima, "Slide Freak" Noriaki Azuma, "Running Blue Wave" Kōji Takae
A long-standing team formed by a close group of friends from the capital, '''Tokio Jungle''' members drive a mish-mash cars, from high-powered four-wheel drive vehicles to rear-wheel drive mountain pass carvers. With a long queue of new drivers wanting to join, however, the original seven members currently keep invitations closed.
* TenMinuteRetirement: [[UnreliableNarrator According to some of the people the player can speak to in ''Import Tuner Challenge'']], Io and Tokio Jungle were on the brink of quitting, largely pushed to do so by Snake Eyes and the PHANTOM NINE. They ultimately came back, inspired by [[spoiler:Jintei's own return]], although Io is still eyeing the possibility of finding a successor and retiring from street racing for good.
* ChildrenRaiseYou: There was a time when Io used to constantly change cars, taking enormous risks when racing, blocking opponents in truly dangerous ways from passing him, and so on... all in the name of letting Tokio Jungle grow and prosper into a powerhouse. As soon as he got married and had a child, however, he suddenly grew far more self-conscious about his behaviour, settling down on the Subaru Impreza as his car and vowing to retire as soon as he picked a successor as team leader. Although that hasn't yet come to pass, his driving has gotten far safer in the meantime, whilst Tokio Jungle's ambitions have been reigned in: from the previously domineering team they used to be, they've largely become a group of talented friends who race for fun more than anything.
* DisownedParent: Toshiki's decision to ignore his parents' demands to return to Osaka and run the family business in their stead, years after he had relocated to Tokyo, eventually devolved into this: [[IHaveNoSon they disowed him over his choice]], and in relief, Toshiki indirectly disowned them back, cutting communications with them entirely.
* DubNameChange:
** Mitsuru Iona: to "Danger Freak" Adam Byrne (''2''), "Ion" Fred Kiko (''Zero''), Mitsuru Iyotomo (''Street Supremacy'')
** Atsushi Baba: to "Tall Boy" Scott Jones (''2''), Manny Jacobs (''Zero''), Hiroshi Baba (''3''), "B-Baller" Hiroshi Baba (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Kyōji Honda: to "Marathon Man" Luis Aquilar (''2''), Marcus Leary (''Zero''), "Jet Black Hot Wind" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Toshiki Nagaregawa: to "Chocker" Will Berman (''2''), Tony Keng (''Zero''), Toshiki Rukawa (''3''), Toshiki Nagarekawa (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Kachiaki Mizushima: to "On & Off" Leo Berk (''2''), Daryl Duke (''Zero''), Katsuaki Mizushima (''3'', ''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Noriaki Azuma: to "Dizzy" Dave Easton (''2''), "Slide Freek" Cory Baracus (''Zero''), Noriaki Higashi (''3'', ''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Kōji Takae: to Gordon "Smooth" Smith (''2''), "Driving Blue Wave" Max Murdock (''Zero'')
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Several of the team members' bios, most importantly Io's, refer to their drifting skills and to the internal debates within Tokio Jungle on whether they should ban the practice or leave members free to decide on what to do. Some members, however, drive front-wheel drive cars in those games, which cannot drift in the classical sense of the term. Making it all the more weirder is how the team's bio in ''3'' refers to how they exclusively drive four-wheel drive or rear-wheel drive cars... [[{{Retcon}} in spite of previous entries proving the opposite]].
* FriendlyRival: Amongst team members, Toshiki and Kachiaki both started racing at roughly the same time. The two, like the rest of the team, are close friends. Nonetheless, they also enjoy competing against one another in order to push themselves to improve and overcome their weak points.
* HopelessSuitor:
** Kōji has been desperately trying to find a lover for years, ever since his last love story ended before the events of the series, with ''zero'' success due to what many perceive as an uncouth fashion style and obsession over cars and racing. He finally got a lucky break by ''Import Tuner Challenge'', however, as he found a girlfriend who accepts him as he is.
** Noriaki joined Kōji starting in ''Zero'', with both men going out together to find their other halves and acting as each other's wingmen... to just about the same amount of success Kōji by his lonesome was having. With Kōji finding a girlfriend, however, Noriaki is left chasing fora love story all by his lonesome.
* IHaveNoSon: Sometimes around the events of ''3'', Toshiki was summoned back home to Osaka, his native hometown, by his parents, who wanted him to take over the family business. Toshiki hesitated, spending a long time pondering on what to do. Ultimately, he ignored his parents, which lead them to disowning him. Not that he seems to mind: in fact, he appears to be far happier without the heavy thoughts of leaving his friends and the city he's grown to love over his head.
* MoralityChain: Io gained one in the form his family around the time of ''3'', when he got married and had a child. Despite an inner voice of his constantly urging him to go faster than before, to take more risks, all it takes is for him to think of them to tune it out and abstain from doing so.
* NoSenseOfDirection: By virtue of having recently moved to Tokyo by the first game, Noriaki Azuma had an uncanny tendency to get lost and end up on the side of town or off the Expressway entirely by pure accident... sometimes, in the middle of a battle. Even a few years later, after having familiarized himself with the area, he ''still'' leaves the C1 Loop and the New Belt Line by accident in ''3'', going straight and and ending up on the Bayshore Line when he should turn right. He finally grew out of the trope completely by ''Import Tuner Challenge'', [[{{Irony}} now being the one who teaches new drivers their way around the Expressway]].
* ShoutOut:
** Atsushi Baba's street name at first appears to be a random string of letters and numbers... until one realizes that the "MJ" in it are [[UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan Michael Jordan's]], whose height is ''6 feet 6''. His bio in ''Zero'' confirms this without outreight referring to Jordan by name, merely describing him as "a famous basketball player who shocked the world" that Baba idolizes.
** Atsushi Baba is a former professional athlete whose fame is in some way tied to height. His surname, again, is ''Baba''. [[Wrestling/GiantBaba You could say he might be a Giant.]]
* SportsHeroBackstory: Atsushi wasn't just any professional basketball player in his youth, he was one of Japan's top players when he was still active. Whilst he largely retired to focus on running a sports apparel store and racing, he joined an amateur basketball team made up by fellow businessman in ''Import Tuner Challenge''. His street name is an indirect reference to this, being a ShoutOut to a very famous basketball player who was active at the same time Baba was.
* TrueCompanions: Tokio Jungle grew into an example of the trope fairly quickly, starting out as a group of people from the metropolis who became inseparable over a short amount of time. Come ''Import Tuner Challenge'', the seven original members are all still active and part of the team, and have become so close-knit that the mere idea of letting someone new into the team seems unthinkable. Special mention has to go to Toshiki and Kachiaki: then the former's parents demanded he return to Osaka to take over the family business, the latter constantly attempted to dissuade him. Toshiki, not wanting to abandon his friends, ultimately refused, much to Kachiaki's joy. [[spoiler:Not even Snake Eyes was capable of BreakingTheFellowship, as they all immediately returned to the Expressway on Io's orders if the rumors are to be bellieved.]]

'''TOP LEVEL'''
!!!'''Team Members''': Kenji "Tarmac" Suzuki ☆, "Phantom Beautiful Girl" Maki Wakabayashi, "Tragic Crimson Tears" Seiko Motogi, "Legendary Worker" Tomio Makitoshi, "Midnight Through" Tomoko Nakajima, "Strategist Crimson" Makoto Kawamura, "Russian Blue" Akane Yamazaki (from ''2'' until ''Zero''), "Protocol" Kyōko Īda (''3'' only)

* TheAlcoholic: Whilst obviously abstaining whenever he has to get behind the wheel, Tarmac Suzuki enjoys getting absolutely plastered whenever Top Level holds team parties.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Kenji is a very open-minded, well-traveled person with his priorities straight. The moment he starts downing drinks, however, that side of him seemingly goes out of the window. As players only get to interact with him on the Expressway, however, they never get to witness it first-hand.
* BlueBlood: Kyōko, according to rumors, belongs to a "good" family, as in "socially well-placed and admired". Her bio in ''3'' openly confirms this, as she's a member of a respected noble family via her father.
* TheDeterminator:
** This is Kenji's personal philosophy, as revealed in ''Import Tuner Challenge''. He clearly believes in the idea, as he will encourage the player to not give up and tell them that every loss is useful experience if he manages to defeat them. Moreso, if challenged again right afterwards, he will openly note how never giving up is, to him, the most important thing a racer can do. Lastly, he also practices what he preaches, as he'll try to hype himself up and declare to the player how they're just getting started if challenged after defeating him.
** After long growing nostalgic for the world of rallying, Makitoshi grew into this sometime around ''3'': no matter what happens, he will try time and time again to once again perform in the sport he loves so much. It gets to the point that, come ''Import Tuner Challenge'', he will always reiterate how he ''will'' make it back to rallying, no matter if the player loses against him, defeats him, or curbstomps him multiple times.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Like all other members of Top Level, Seiko is a genuine racing talent. Despite that, her go-to style of lightning quick, reactive steering makes a public danger on the Expressway. Furthermore, her attempts at blocking opponents is no different from carelessly obstructing the road for everyone, making her closer to a moving chicane and putting anyone in her vicinity whenever she battles at risk. Suzuki has actively chided her for both issues on multiple occasions, but it didn't seem to bring forth any major change.
* DubNameChange:
** Kenji Suzuki: to "Rally King" Greg Burns (''2''), "Car Maniac" Stan Tuchiyama (''Zero'')
** Maki Wakabayashi: to "Mystery Girl" (first game), "Joy Rider" Candy Shaw (''2''), "Mystery Girl" Kyoko Makino (''Zero''), "Illusive Girl" (''3''), "Phantom Babe" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Seiko Motogi: to "Tragic Red Tear" (first game), "Lost Angel" Erika Kwan (''2''), "Red Tears" Lucy Nakajima (''Zero''), "Traffic Tear" (''3''), "Tragic Crimson Tear" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Tomio Makitoshi: to "Legendary Blue Collar" (first game), "Method Man" Craig Curtis (''2''), "Legendary Digger" Paul Williams (''Zero''), "The Legendary Worker" Tomio Minoru (''3''), Tomio "Constant" Makine (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Tomoko Nakajima: to "Midnight Thru" (first game), "Ice Master" Yoko Moore (''2''), Peggy Lee (''Zero''), "Midnight Calm" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Makoto Kawamura: to "Red General" (first game, ''Import Tuner Challenge''), "Racer" Rick Miller (''2''), "Sir General" Phil Tavera (''Zero''), "The Red Tactician" (''3'')
** Akane Yamazaki: to "Out of the Blue" Keiko Hayashi (''2''), Mindy Louise (''Zero'')
* FatalFlaw: For Tomoko, it's her fragile personality. This originally caused her trouble because she couldn't see battles through to the end, thus being her greatest hindrance at becoming a better racer. Upon learning to be more gradual in her driving, she improved greatly, but her talent still fails to come through and shine in critical moments.
* {{Fratbro}}: Despite being a grown, mature adult with a steady job and his head metaphorically planted on his shoulders, Suzuki has the major elements of one, what with openly enjoying partying, drinking, and his mistrust of women.
* GracefulLoser: Upon being defeated by the player in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', Suzuki will take it with grace, merely demanding that they see their quest of becoming Tokyo's fastest to its very end, no matter what might happen.
* HeartbrokenBadass: The reason why Seiko first became a street racer, proving herself to be surprisingly talented and capable of holding her own against former rally winners? Her boyfriend, a street racer himself, lost his life because of an accident on the New Belt Line. She followed in his stead to try and figure out what he found in highway running, but hasn't been able to move past his death by ''Import Tuner Challenge''.
* HeManWomanHater: ''3'' reveals Kenji, [[HiddenDepths surprisingly enough]], to be worried over the rising amount of women in his team, disliking the idea of racing ''alongside'' them or '''with'' them to begin with. To further put it into context, Top Level has never had more than ''three'' women amongst its ranks. One of which is ''his second-in-command''. Despite that, he'd like to keep the team a "boys club", if only to feel less awkward during parties when he gets the booze flowing.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Makitoshi is an interesting play on the trope: he ''did'' manage to become a professional driver in rallying championships, meaning he ''was'' a Contender at one point, but his results were so lacklustre he either stepped away out of his own free will or was forced out of that world. He became a street racer and helped form Top Level to make up for it, but a decade later, he ''still'' thinks he could've done more. As such, he's been trying to claw his way back into professional rallying, but due to his past shortcomings, no sponsors are willing to finance him.
* TheLostLenore: Seiko Motogi's boyfriend died in a racing crash on the New Belt Line. Losing him lead her to become a {{NEET}} for a while, until she decided to figure out what, exactly, pushed him to become a street racer and die on the Expressway. Towards that end, she became a member of Top Level.
* MirroringFactions: Top Level has one in their sworn rivals, Another Star: both are same make, same model teams with past history in rallying, both have self-deprecating female seconds-in-command, both race for supremacy on the same part of the Metropolitan Expresway, the New Belt Line, both have two members who left the team at varios points, and both have "junior" versions of one another in Tri Edge and The Pleiades. As a cherry on top, the two teams were at one point involved in a pseudo-"Romeo-and-Juliet" situation featuring two of their members. The sole difference is that Another Star has one member less than Top Level.
* MysteriousPast: No one really seems to know much, if anything, about Yamazaki: she appeared out nowhere one day and quickly found herself amongst top Level's ranks. There are rumors that she belonged, or atleast ''used'' to belong, to another team, but they were always too vague to ever lead anywhere.
* OfficeLady: Maki Wakabayashi, per her various bios starting in ''3'', works as an "O.L.", the Japanese abbreviation for "office lady". Fittingly for the job, she's Suzuki's second-in-command, with her boss generally distrustful of women.
* OldFriend: Suzuki and Makitoshi are long-time friends, having met long before they first entered the world of rallying. When Kenji left that world, believing he had achieved everything he could, Makitoshi was the one who invited him to become an highway racer, leading to the two reuniting and eventually forming Top Level. Of the two, Suzuki is the more unrestrained of the two, especially when it comes to partying, whereas Tomio is more focused and displined, constantly striving to return to the world of professional arllying. Their racing styles, however, are the exact opposites: Kenji is very straightforwards, owing up to his idea that fighting "nature" is useless, whereas Makitoshi excels in slipping around obstacles and thrives in the chaotic situation brought on by a multi-opponent battle.
* RetiredBadass: Kenji "Tarmac" Suzuki was formerly a professional rally driver, a recognized one with several wins under his belt. Having won everything he thought he could win, he eventually retired to settle down, becoming an highway racer and home improvement retailer.
* TheRival: The entire team has a strong rivalry with Another Star. There are several reasons behind it: emotional involvement, adverse relationships, competititveness, clashing philosophies... and, of course, [[SeriousBusiness the natural rivalry between Lancer Evolution drivers and Impreza drivers]].
** The two team leaders, Suzuki and Obata, tend to be the driving force behind the rivalry, constantly aiming at defeating the other for good. In spite of that, neither man takes things with the seriousness they display to others: Suzuki takes it with amusing ease, believing himself to be faster, whilst Naoto doesn't even believe there to be a rivalrly, thinking of Suzuki as a close friend.
** The two second-in-commands, Maki Wakabayashi and Yōko Uehara, are also direct rivals, albeit on fairer terms than their respective leaders. Both believe the other to be the more skilled driver, but, on the other hand, believe themselves to be the prettiest woman of both groups.
** Seiko Motogi and Kōji Miura's rivalry exploded when the latter insulted the former's motivation for street racing, her boyfriend's tragic passing, and told her she was getting "drunk on tragedy". Seiko, in return, called Kōji's self-described "cool and nihilistic" personality "nothing but posturing worth of a scumbag".
** Tomio Makitoshi and Gou Fujike are ''seen'' as rivals by crowds, what with their similar positions within their respective teams and constant battles. Tomio, however, doesn't think much of it, believing he's on a different technical level than Gou and having defeated him time and time again. In spite of that, Gou continues to return and challenge Tomio, always ready and willing to win one back for himself.
** The main exception to this rivalry, for Top Level, is Makoto Kawamura. He's completely ambivalent towards the Another Star, and merely considers the rivalry between the two teams to be worthwhile as long as it can lead Top Level to improve.
* ShipperOnDeck: Tomoko, being one of the only people to have noticed the blossoming relationship between her teammate Akane Yamazaki and Another Star's Ryou Ikegami, openly and actively supports them despite their relationship being caught between the two team's vicious rivalry.
* SportsHeroBackstory: Both Kenji and Tomio were professional rally drivers in their youth before going on to create Top Level. Of the two, the former was by leaps and bounds the most sucessful, winning several races and becoming recognized by his fellow, whereas the latter left the discipline due to his lack of results.
* StarCrossedLovers: Akane and Ryou Ikegami of Another Star are in love and trying to get a relationship off of the ground. However, due to their respective teams' feud, the two cannot be together in public, putting a massive obstacle in front of their love story.
* TookALevelInBadass: Maki started off her racing career as a mere junior student in college. Not having a vehicle of her own, she'd borrow her boyfriend's Lancer Evo to go racing behind his back, with her talent doing the rest. Already Suzuki's second-in-command by the first game, she constantly improves appearance after appearance, with her peak reached in ''3'': as soon as she can afford to buy her own car and freely tune it to better suit herself, she becomes a far more formidable driver than ever before.
* WeCanRuleTogether: After the player has defeated every other member of Top Level in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', they'll find themselves face-to-face with Kenji Suzuki. He'll briefly muse on how, if the circumstances were any different, he'd immediately invite the player to join his team, ultimately being aware that they're looking for something completely different.
* WhatIsThisFeeling: As part of Seiko's CharacterDevelopment arc, she begins to awaken to the allure and emotion brought on by racing down the Metropolitan Expresway game after game, something she begins to consciously notice around ''3''. Despite feeling quite conflicted about it, as those feelings likely played a role in her boyfriend's death, she's wholly accepted them by the time of ''Import Tuner Challenge''.

'''FREE WAY'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Blue Comet" Haruhiko Oyama ☆, "Accel Junkie" Akihiro Fukui, "Highway Bomber" Yūki Wada, "Crystal Knights" Takatsugu Migimoto, "Ultimate Killer" Ichirō Tobiyama, "Silent Reviver" Tetsurō Kibayashi, "Nightmare" Kunihiro Harada (until ''Zero''), "Silver Fox" Akira Yamada, "Orange Head" Utsu Shī
Spontaneously born long ago by the will of several Skyline GT-R drivers, '''Free Way''' are a tight-knit unit who believe they are driving the very representation of Japan: as such, they do not take any mockery against their cars lightly. They're treated with hostility by most other teams due to their rough driving and arrogant, "exclusivist" behaviour.

* TenMinuteRetirement:
** Tetsurō tried to quit the world of highway racing ''repeatedly'', only to end up drawn back in by his experiences and emotions. He tends to go a semi-regular TenMinuteRetirement, reappearing so quickly no one even noticed he left to begin with. [[MeaningfulName It's very likely this is how he earned himself the street name of "Silent Reviver"]]. tried time and time to quit highway racing, only to be unable to forget what he went through and what he felt as a racer. As such, his retirement never sticks, and that's how he earned the moniker of "Silent Reviver".
** Kunihiro Harada had ''sucessfully'' abandoned highway racing for the circuits sometime before the series' events. Prolonged absence, however, reignited his passion for the Expressway, prompting him to return as a member of Free Way in the first game. He disappeared without mention sometime after the events of ''Zero'', however.
* ArtifactName: As mentioned below, Akira Yamada's street name, "Silver Fox", once made sense, as it referred to his car's colour and his signature driving style. However, after he accidentally startled an opponent and caushed them to crash whilst both were in a turn, Akira stopped driving that way. By that point, however, he had already become known as "Silver Fox" and the name firmly stuck with him since.
* BigBrotherMentor: Yūki was the one who slowly awakened his brother's Wakaki passion towards the world of cars. He even mentored him for a while and introduced him to the races taking place on the Metropolitan Expressway each night, until Wakaki found somewhere he felt like he belonged and joined MAX Racing. In a partial inversion, Yūki is the ''younger'' one of the two Wada siblings.
* CharacterDevelopment: Ichirō started out as a reckless, selfish driver who refused to listen to those criticizing his style, putting several drivers at risks for years. In ''Street Supremacy'''s continuity, atleast, racing was merely a way for him to release the frustrations born from an unfulfilling job. However, come ''Import Tuner Challenge'', he had a sudden awakeneing to what he was doing, and did a one-eighty degree turn on his behaviour.
* TheDeterminator: It doesn't matter how far back Akira might be in a race compared to his opponent: he ''never'' gives up, always trying to close the gap, to catch up and make an audacious move to take the lead for the win.
* DrivesLikeCrazy:
** The most infamous member of Free Way is definitely Akihiro Fukui, the team's second-in-command. Where to begin? He breaks hard without rhyme or reason only to accelerate away just as fast, he constantly tries to reach new top speeds regardless of how dangerous it is, and he does all this because he's "addicted" to the sensation of lateral Gs. Despite all that, he is still an incredibly talented racer.
** Ichirō Tobiyama is considered by many to be far too "intense" whenever he races, what with how he makes his car do large swings back and forth to pressure opponents, how he almost presses them into the Highway's walls, or how forceful he is when blocking or defending his position, which takes an ugly turn into cutting them off at times. Takatsugu criticized him for ''years'' about this, but Ichirō hardly listened to him. He finally realized how important safe driving is and grew out of the trope by ''Import Tuner Challenge'', to everyone's amazement.
* DubNameChange:
** Haruhiko Oyama: to "Master Racer" Nick Richards (''2''), "Blue Meteor" Vitalino Mendez (''Zero''), The Blue Star (''3''), Haruhiko Koyama (''Street Supremacy''), "Pale Comet" Haruhiko Koyama (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Akihiro Fukui: to "Accel Junky" (first game), "Accelerator" Al Gomez (''2''), "Speed Junky" Caleb Marshal (''Zero''), "Accelerator Junkie" (''3''), "G-Force Junkie" (''Street Supremacy''), "Acceleration Junkie" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Yūki Wada: to "Max Credit" Eric Hill (''2''), Eric Fox (''Zero''), "Bombardier" Yuki Uda (''Street Supremacy'')
** Takatsugu Migimoto: to "Crystal Nights" (first game), "Rocky" Doug Pike (''2''), "Crystal Knight" Tom Frankies (''Zero''), "Crystal Nights" Koji Mikimoto (''3''), "Night Knight" Koji Mikimoto (''Street Supremacy''), "Crystal Knight" Koji Mikimoto (''Street Supremacy'')
** Ichirō Tobiyama: to "Dirty" Dennis Perkins (''2''), Hannibal Smith (''Zero''), Ichiro Hiyama (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Tetsurō Kibayashi: to "Roadrunner" Dean Wong (''2''), Joseph Adams (''Zero''), "Old School" (''Street Supremacy'')
** Kunihiro Harada: to "Circuit Devil" Keith Page (''2''), Saul Gaona (''Zero'')
** Akira Yamada: to "Stealth Rider" Dave Frakin (''2''), Allan Shinmoto (''Zero'')
** Utsu Shī: to "Speedster" Jim Myers (''2''), Gabino Encarnaci (''Zero''), Tadashi Utsui (''3'', ''Street Supremacy'', ''Import Tuner Challenge'')
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Should Free Way succesfully conquer territory off of the player's team in ''Street Supremacy'', Haruhiko will invoke the trope, demanding his team be treated with the respect they deserve and that they not be confused with other, "lousier" teams.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Yūki Wada is the Foolish Sibling to his brother's Takaki's Responsible one: Yūki felt "free" to pick any car of his liking because Takaki, putting his family's needs first, bought a four door: this lead him to get into massive amounts of loans and pushed his parents to kick him out of the household. The situation is suddenly reversed in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', however: Yūki buckled down and started working overtime at the furniture factory to pay back all the loans he accumulated over the years, becoming the more Responsible one, whereas Takaki started acting more selfishly and is openly letting his family fall apart over his whims, ending up as the Foolish one.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Despite almost every member driving a Skyline GT-R in the first game, and all games from the second onwards establishing the team as being made up exclusively of GT-R drivers, there is ''one'' Free Way member who doesn't drive the car in the first game -- that being Utsu Shī and his Nissan Fairlady Z32.
* FastestThingAlive: There was a moment, around the time of the first game, where Haruhiko's R34 was considered the ''fastest'' car through-out Tokyo, as in "the car with the highest possible top speed". When his competition were monsters like the Four Devas and Z.E.R.O., that is an impressive feat. From ''2'' onwards, the car became "merely" one of the five fastest car of the entire area.
* FeelingTheirAge: Tetsurō's begun feeling the effects of aging on his body by ''Import Tuner Challenge'': he can't quite hold up as well as he used to against younger competitors, he's lost some of his endurance and strength, and his reflexes aren't as sharp as they used to be. To compensate for all this, he relies on his decade-plus of racing experience.
* FreudianExcuse:
** Why is Akihiro a SpeedDemon with such a dangerous driving style? He used to be in a relationship with a girl who loved speed coasters, particularly how they started and stopped, when both were teens. Through highway racing, he found a way to try to come as close as possible to emulating those feelings from his youth, although he and his girlfriend have long split up.
** What causes Ichirō Tobiyama to be so aggressive and domineering when racing? Outside of the Expressway, his daily job is to drive locomotives for a private company. He'd love to drive Japan's world-renowed bullet trains, but finds himself stuck driving the slow-moving locals, something that causes him no small amount of frustration. Thus, he takes it all out on the Metropolitan Expressway.
* FriendlyRival: Akihiro Fukui and Takeshi Harada of the R. Gangs are always competing to see who can reach a new highest speed on the Metropolitan Expressway, but their desire to always go faster made them become close friends. They even have an endearing nickname for their relationship, calling themselves "flying buddies".
* FriendshipFavoritism: Haruhiko has this towards Akihiro on ''pure accident''. The two are extremely close, which is why Akihiro became the team's second-in-command, but as a side effect no Free Way member dares levy any complaints towards him, feeling like they'd only anger their leader.
* GracefulLoser: Upon being defeated by a player who joined Free Way in ''Street Supremacy'', Haruhiko will be thoroughly impressed by their progress and proclaim his certainity that they're slanted for big things before making them the team's new leader.
* HeroicBSoD: Should the player join Free Way in ''Street Supremacy'', only for an opponent team to force them to disband whilst Haruhiko is still leading the team, he will promptly fall into despair at the turn of events, barely managing to get some words out.
* JerkassRealization: Ichirō was unrepentant in how dangerous his driving style was, in spite of the likes of Takatsugu constantly criticizing him. Sometime before the events of ''Import Tuner Challenge'', he suddenly realized how important driving safely was, and how reckless and hated he had been. From that moment onwards, he immediately turned a new leaf, reneging his former actions.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen:
** Yūki prefers to battle in a clean, fair way, which is reflected in how his R32 is tuned: with a stoic, solid drive in mind, averse to overexterting the car.
** Takatsugu Migimoto has been described as "chivalrious" and prefers calm, fair battling against any opponent. He has the bad tendency of overdoing it, however, cutting his rivals far too much slack and inevitably losing, but that doesn't seem to discourage him. [[MeaningfulName It's how he earned the street name of "Crystal Knights" to begin with]]. He also used to be a vocal critic of Ichirō, the team's most intense driver, until the latter turned a new leaf.
* LovedByAll: It doesn't matter in what context, be it as Free Way's leader or his daily job as weatherman, everyone seems to adore Haruhiko. His employers, his fellow workers, his rivals in the broadcasting business, his team member's... no one has a bad thing to say about him, to the point the latter are willing to let Akihiro's shenanigans slide to not upset him.
* MagneticHero: Haruhiko tends to have people flock to him, be it through his likeable personality, his raw speed, his ability, or his perception as a winner. This was how Free Way was born to begin with: other GT-R drivers quickly found themselves drawn to and looking up to him, which laid the foundations for the team's birth. Judging by the extremely low turn-over rate, those who join him seem to be extremely willing to stick by his side.
* MeaningfulName: Akira Yamada's street name, "Silver Fox", originated from two characteristics of his -- the silver paint of his GT-R and the peculiar driving style he used -- by hiding behind other cars, or in his opponent's blind spot, to then reappear and go on the offense, he'd resemble "a dancing fox". It became an ArtifactName when he renounced to the latter over concerns of his opponents' safety.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Evoked by Akihiro ''without even intending to'': due to being very close friends with Haruhiko, to the point he was made Free Way's second-in-command, none of the other members dare complain about his driving hijinks, in spite of no one truly tolerating them.
* SoreLoser:
** Should Free Way lose a team battle to the player's team in ''Street Supremacy'', Haruhiko will claim that it didn't count, as they were "merely gathering data". He'll also promise that the next time the two teams cross roads again, things will go differently.
** Despite [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen generally wanting clean, fair battling against his opponents]], Yūki cannot stand losing against anyone.
* SpeedDemon: Akihiro is constantly chasing the thrill of higher speeds and aiming to set the new high speed record of the Metropolitan Expressway. What makes him particularly dangerous, however, is that he seeks the feeling of Gs alongside it, leading him to adapt an erratic, dangerous driving style not dissimilar from a speed coaster.
* WeatherReport: When not leading Free Way, Haruhiko is a weather reporter. He started out by following in his father's footsteps as an actor and TV personality, before settling on his current occupation. Apparently, his predictions have a lower percentage of accuracy than his win rate, which sits at eighty percent. It's portrayed as a bad percentage, [[WritersCannotDoMath even though real seven-day forecasts were even less accurate]] [[TurnOfTheMillennium at the time]].
* WeUsedToBeFriends: A ''very'' long time ago, Utsu used to be a member of Rolling Guy, sharing the team's passion for the [=AE86=]. Over time, however, he started to resent his car's low ceiling, which lead him to study other cars... and fall in love with the Skyline R34. Realizing he was at risk of becoming an outlier, he quit his team and joined Free Way, with the other members accusing him of being a traitor. The relation between the two parties has since hit rock bottom, with Rolling Guy members refusing to bring him up... although Utsu seems to regret how things ended up: the mere sight of his old [=AE86=], the one he used as part of his previous team, sitting abandoned in his garage and falling apart before his very eyes is apparently painful to him.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Ever since he first decided to begin racing on the Expressway, Yūki has been accumulating countless loans, to the point that, atleast in ''Street Supremacy'''s continuity, he got kicked out of his parents' home and turned to loan sharks to keep going. The amount of money he owes has gotten so big that, by the time of ''Import Tuner Challenge'', he's begun working overtime to pay off everything, leaving him with little time to dedicate to the team.

'''ANOTHER STAR'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Blue Speed" Naoto Obata ☆, "Silver Speed" Yōko Uehara, Kōji "Razor" Miura, "Red Shout" Mitsue Takahashi, "Battle Scratch" Gou Fujiike, "Thunder" Hitomi Tsujiki (from ''2'' until ''Zero''), "Electromagnetic Trip" Ryou Ikegami (from ''2'' until ''Zero'')
The Yang to the Yin, the tiger to the dragon, the opposite to Top Level: just like them, all members of '''Another Star''' have varying backgrounds in rally, and just like them, this team aims for the top of the New Belt Line. The key difference is the car at the center of this team, the Subaru Impreza. As the years pass, Another Star continue to polish their technique and reach new levels of speed, all in a bid to finally overcome their rivals for good.

* ChessMotifs: When explaining how the Metropolitan Expressway works from his point of view to the player in ''Street Supremacy'', Naoto utilizes them as comparison and metaphor. In his own words, Tokyo is best seen as a giant chessboard, where the player is nothing but a mere pawn. On "normal" chessboards, they'd end almost immediately discarded, but Tokyo gives its "pawns" as many opportunities as they want to prove their worth, until they eventually graduate to knights, or even knights. His metaphor also doubles as {{Foreshadowing}}, as this is how a player's average playthrough of the game goes: join a team, defeat their fellow "pieces", the other team members, and graduate to "knight", the second-in-command, before overcoming the "king", the team's leader, taking their spot, and leading the pieces they defeated towards the other side of the checkboard until they reach "checkmate" -- no other team remains to oppose them.
* DareToBeBadass: Upon being defeated by the player in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', Naoto will congratulate them on the win, but dare them to never settle down for what they've achieved so far and always strive to improve. He also warns them that doing so will be their downfall. [[spoiler:Once again, his is {{Foreshadowing}}, as that is how Snake Eyes ultimately ends up defeated, too busy with his delusions of grooming the player into an image of Jintei to prepare himself for their inevitable battle.]]
* TheDeterminator: Gou has an incredibly strong fighting spirit: no matter how many times he ends up losing, he never, ever fails to get back up and race again. Most representative of this is his rivalry with Top Level's Makitoshi: he got trashed badly against him, ''multiple'' times, yet Gou's always come back to challenge him.
* DubNameChange:
** Naoto Obata: to "The Natural" Billy Sims (''2''), Billy Boulder (''Zero''), Naoto Kohata (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Yōko Uehara: to "Drift Bunny" Lisa Gordon (''2''), Vickey Yeoh (''Zero''), "Quicksilver" (''Street Supremacy'')
** Kōji Miura: to "Master Burke" (first game), "Razorblade" Gil Downs (''2''), "Lightning Bird" Ryo Ikegami (''Zero''), "The Razor" Hiroharu Miura (''3'')
** Mitsue Takahashi: to "Banshee" Lena Roth (''2''), "Red Shut" Dianna Bella (''Zero''), "Red Roar" (''Street Supremacy'')
** Gou Fujiike: to "Herr Schneider" (first game), "Dr. Speed" Arron Ortiz (''2''), Mark Utaranart (''Zero''), "Drivin' DJ" (''Street Supremacy''), Takeshi Fujiike (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Hitomi Tsujiki: to "Gemini" Kimi Yamamoto (''2''), "Lightning Eyes" Lisa Mani (''Zero'')
** Ryou Ikegami: to "Hot 'n Cold" Kenny Black (''2''), "U Violet" Rancisco Juno (''Zero'')
* FamedInStory: At one point, likely around the events of ''3'', Naoto went on some solo expeditions to Osaka. Although no specific details are given, his feats and escapades over there became the stuff of legend, to the point his entire "saga" became widely known amongst Expressway drivers and has been passed down from generation to generation.
* FriendlyRival: Despite the fierce rivalrly between Another Star and Top Level, Naoto ultimately considers Kenji Suzuki a good friend of his. This appears to be one-sided, however, as Suzuki ultimately writes off Obata, deeming himself the best driver.
* GracefulLoser: Naoto takes all of his losses with grace, never begrudging nor mocking those who defeat him. Instead, he uses defeats as opportunities to learn something new and prepare himself for future rematches. A particularly striking case is found in ''Street Supremacy'': even if another team forcefully disbands Another Star on playthrough where the player joined the team but didn't replace Obata as leader yet, Naoto will not hold it against anyone: his greatest regret, in that event, is seeing a team he built and nurtured for so many years end up lost to history.
* {{Kiai}}: Mitsue Takahashi, for some odd reasons, practices the technique and takes it to the world of highway racing: in the middle of battles, she shouts loudly whenever going on the offensive or being forced on the defensive to hype herself up for the upcoming attack or counter-attack.
* LudicrousMeleeAccuracy: In a particularly rare CarFu case of the trope, one of Naoto's signature tricks is setting up a row of empty cans on the road before striking them all down, in rapid-fire succession, by drifting his Impreza. Fitting the "Ludicrous" adjective, he apparently ''never practiced the trick once'' in his entire life, and first did it as a spur-of-the-moment thing to show off.
* MightMakesRight: Part of Naoto's personal philosophy, as he expounds in ''Street Supremacy'', is that only the fastest are worthy of leading: those who have the necessary tools, the required skills, to be in such positions ought to prove it to others and claim their rightful spot, whereas those who lack them are better off at the bottom of the racing world's hierarchy.
* MirroringFactions: Another Star has one in their sworn rivals, Top Level: both are same make, same model teams with past history in rallying, both have self-deprecating female seconds-in-command, both race for supremacy on the same part of the Metropolitan Expresway, the New Belt Line, both have two members who left the team at varios points, and both have "junior" versions of one another in The Pleiades and Tri Edge. As a cherry on top, the two teams were at one point involved in a pseudo-"Romeo-and-Juliet" situation featuring two of their members. The sole difference is that Top Level has one more member than Another Star.
* TheRival: The entire team has a strong rivalry with Top Level. There are several reasons behind it: emotional involvement, adverse relationships, competitiveness, clashing philosophies... and, of course, [[SeriousBusiness the natural rivalry between Impreza drivers and Lancer Evolution drivers]].
** The two team leaders, Obata and Suzuki, tend to be the driving force behind the rivalry, constantly aiming at defeating the other for good. In spite of that, neither man takes things with the seriousness they display to others: Naoto doesn't even believe there exists a rivalry between their teams, and thinks of Kenji as a close friend, whilst Suzuki takes it with ease due to his belief of being the better driver of the two.
** The two second-in-commands, Yōko Uehara and Maki Wakabayashi, are also direct rivals, albeit on better terms than their respective leaders. Both believe the other to be the more skilled driver, but, on the other hand, believe themselves to be the prettiest woman of both groups.
** Kōji Miura and Seiko Motogi did not have reasons to be rivals originally, until Kōji insulted the reason behind Seiko's decision to race, finding it "irrelevant" and accusing her of "getting drunk on tragedy". She insulted Kōji back, and the two have been at each other's throats since.
** Gou Fujike and Tomio Makitoshi are ''seen'' as rivals by crowds, what with their similar positions within their respective teams and frequent battling. Gou relinquishes in the idea, constantly challenging Tomio to finally manage to defeat him, atleast once. Tomio, on the other hand, blows it off, believing himself to be technically superior to Gou thanks to having curb-stomped him multiple times.
** Of all Another Star members, however, Mitsue is perhaps the only one to have no hostility towards Top Level for no particular reason. She's flat-out uninterested in these kind of rivalries, and reacts coldly to the mere idea of hostility between teams.
* ShesAManInJapan: As a result of Crave's CulturalTranslation, Hitomi Tsujiki became a man, called Kimi Yamamoto, in international releases of ''2''.
* ShipTease: Some relatively minor, one-sided tease exists between Yōko Uehara and Naoto Obata. Yōko originally joined Another Star after witnessing Naoto's drifting skill and quickly growing to admire him. That admiration morphed into attempts at imitating Obata, before outright trying to reach his overall racing level. If the player speaks to her in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', Yōko will reiterate how much she looks up to Naoto, and how she's determined to always help him out, even if he refuses... yeah, she can easily come across as more than just a fierce follower.
* ShippingTorpedo: From teammate to teammate, Hitomi Tsujiki cannot even ''stand'' the mere idea that Ryou Ikegami fell in love with Akane Yamazaki of Top Level. It's not clear if she's opposed to him falling in love with an enemy, or opposed to him falling in love with someone other than her, but she's dead set on making sure their relationship sinks. To do so, she puts on a nice woman façade in front of Ryou to dissuade him, whilst showing her true face and acting far more aggressive whenever she's trying to drive Akane away.
* StarCrossedLovers: Ryou is madly in love with Akane Yamazaki... who belongs to Top Level. Despite their mutual love for one another, their relationship is constantly hindered by their teams' rivalry, to the point they struggle to be open about it. On Ryou's side, he also has Hitomi constantly trying to make sure their love story goes absolutely nowhere whilst keeping him in the dark about her true intentions.
* StrawNihilist: Kōji Miura describes himself as "cool and nihilistic". He definitely acts like the stereotype, being an arrogant, apathic jerk who believes the grief of Top Level's Seiko Motogi over her lost lover to be meaningless, and that dwelling on it is a mere excuse for her to "get drunk on tragedy". Despite trying to pass himself off as a ladies' man, women find him to be an unbearable creep exactly due to his personality.
* {{Ubermensch}}: Kōji Miura, despite not having an outwardly expressed code, is definitely uncaring of societal expectations and beliefs, what with his cold attitude towards others' emotions. He also beliefs that being unpredictable and misleading people through their own superficial judgement calls by presenting an "exterior" different from the "interior" -- be it of a car or of a person -- to be amusing.
* {{Undertaker}}: Kōji Miura was established to work as an undertaker starting in ''3''. His job is not something that can be easily deducted through his driving style... but his behaviour, particularly his uncaring behaviour towards others' griefs and attitude towards death, is easily explained once one is made aware of this.

'''SPEED BOX'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Time Nebula" Tokio Aoshima ☆, "Flashing Drift Liner" Makoto Ito, "Burning Rider" Masuo Takeda, Daiki "Max" Araki, "Killing Machine" Shuhei Kitakata, "Street Fighter Plane" Takeshi Nagano
To be frank, nothing much is known about Speed Box. They were one of the original twenty teams of the Tokyo Expressway, and all members drove Honda NSXs. What they're most famous for, though, is for being the first team to violently break apart: from its ashes, one of Speed Box's member would go on to create his own team on the Wangan Line.
For tropes regarding Shuhei Kitakata upon becoming leader of Unlimited, see the team's folder here. For tropes regarding SPEED BOX, the Wanderer, see here.
* AddledAddict: In a rare case of ''behavioural'' addiction, Makoto became compelled to continue racing, no matter what. In spite of his vehement desire to quit, the lure of speed continues to be impossible for him to resist to. As a result, he's fallen into a depressed slump.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Speed Box, being a team whose members all drove the Honda [=NSX=], "the first, real Japanese supercar", were expected to be the Goliath against the vast majority of opponent. Their general lack of skill behind the wheel, however, meant they lost far more to any David than it was expected. This is why Shuhei ultimately quit the team in frustration after the first game.
* DubNameChange:
** Tokio Aoshima: to "Time's Cloud"
** Makoto Ito: to "Blazing Drift Liner"
** Takeshi Nagano: to "Street Tank"
* FlatCharacter
* HyperAwareness: Tokio Aoshima, Speed Box's leader, was noted to be capable of notiving even the smallest of detail on his car through feeling alone, something that'd end up lost on most other drivers. It makes a lot of sense when one takes into consideration his daily job of engineer at a car company, meaning he knows exactly what every little bolt on his NSX does.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Out of the twenty original teams, Speed Box were the only ones to appear exclusively in the first game before uncerimoniously breaking up. As such, they don't undergo much characterization, nor are players shown any HiddenDepths they might've had outside Kitakata and Nagano.

'''TR RACING'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Unstoppable Black Dragon's Dream" Ryūtarō Furuki ☆, "Lovely" Rina Kawahara, "180 Master" Jun'ichi Kubota, "Breaker" Shinji Ōtake, "Street Queen" Yumi Kuribayashi (first game only), "Dancing Chaser" Taku Ishī, "Dawn Shaker" Hidenori Sekiya (from ''2'' onwards), Takayuki "Night Worker" Horī (from ''2'' onwards)

* ConfusionFu: As a result of his car's incredibly wobbly steering, Shinji moves in an somewhat "eerie" way during battles, which unsettles most opponents due to how random and unstable it looks for a race car.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Shinji has an unrequited crush on his teammate Rina, dating back to before TR Racing first broke up. As such, when Rina returned and brought Taku back with her from the mountain pass, he immediately found himself completely at odds with him, thinking he could've stolen her away from him. On one side, Taku ''does'' have a crush on Rina. On the ''other'', Rina is completely unaware ''either man'' is crushing on her, and has eyes only for Ryūtarō.
* CripplingOverspecialization: When TR Racing first dissolved, Rina moved to mountain pass racing, and changed her car's set-up accordingly. Upon returning to Tokyo when the team reunited, she retained the same set-up: as a result, her Nissan clears the corners near Daiba and Fukugawa very well, but struggles everywhere else on the New Belt Line.
* DrivesLikeCrazy:
** Takayuki Horī used to drive a lighter, far less powerful car than his current S14. To be able to battle evenly with more powerful opponents back then, he developed the habit of barely letting off of the throttle when cornering... something that turned him into a driving hazard at extreme risk of crashing the Silvia due to the differences between the two cars.
** In a more restrained example, Shinji modified his Skyline to better handle its massive power boost, leaning heavily on aerodynamic modifications. Despite that, the suspension and steering cannot handle the new engine, leading to things such as a wobbly, "eerie" steering that unneverses everyone. Somehow, Shinji weaponizes it to gain the edge in battles.
* DubNameChange:
** Ryūtarō Furuki: to "Unstoppable Black Dragon" (first game), "Dark Racer" Brett Stevens (''2''), "Unstoppable Dream" Mike Knight (''Zero'')
** Rina Kawahara: to "Sweetie Pie" Rina Schwartz (''2''), "Lovely Girl" Astrid Makowitz (''Zero'')
** Jun'ichi Kubota: to "The Geezer" Frank Purdue (''2''), Steven Early (''Zero'')
** Shinji Ōtake: to "Redline Cindy" (first game), "Drag Racer" Kevin Richman (''2''), "Rule Breaker" David Quartey (''Zero'')
** Taku Ishī: to "Tokyo Kid" Brian Larson (''2''), Carl Matz (''Zero'')
** Hidenori Sekiya: to "Pit Master" Ricky Chen (''2''), Tariel Makinotz (''Zero'')
** Takayuki Horī: to Mark "Wipeout" Williams (''2''), Sam Koskela (''Zero'')
* HopelessSuitor: Shinji and Taku both have crushes on Rina that the other isn't aware of, leading to them accidentally competing for her attention. Despite that, Rina completely fails to notice either, as she only has eyes for TR Racing's leader, Ryūtarō.
* LoveTriangle: There exists one between Rina, Shinji, and Taku, with the former two having crushes on her that none of the other parties are aware of. Shinji's had his eyes on Rina dating back to before TR Racing temporarily dissolved, and, as such, he reacted very poorly when Rina introduced Taku to the team upon their reunion. Taku, meanwhile, fell for Rina when they first met on the mountain passes, and juggles that with trying to fit in his new team and environment. This, naturally, causes a lot of friction amongst teammates, which causes the likes of Jun'ichi to worry about TR Racing imploding.
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Ryūtarō, originally, was not the bitter racer introduced to players in the first game. [[NoodleIncident Something happened]], before the series' events, that caused him to believe those like him had no place within society. He immediately resumed street racing, which became his sole source of happiness.
* NewMeat: Taku Ishī, brought over by Rina Kawahara from mountain pass racing, fits the trope to a T, being the newest member of the team and the one the most distrusted by other members.
* NoPlaceForAWarrior: Years before the series begun, Ryūtarō Furuki ordered TR Racing to be dissolved and his teammates to return to their normal lives. Whereas they handled the change in different ways, Ryūtarō immediately struggled, finding himself out of place in a society he deemed short-sighted and self-centered. With no place he felt at home in, he started racing solo almost as soon as he had retired, with the rest of the team flocking back to their leader and friend in short order.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: This is TR Racing's {{Backstory}}: Furuki ordered the group to dissolve years before the events of the series, only for all members to gradually return to the Metropolitan Expressway. Ryūtarō was the first, after having gone into despair from what he saw of society, and he was quickly joined by Rina, who never really stopped racing and merely moved to mountain passes, where she left a noticeable mark. The others fell into line quickly afterwards.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Ever since he switched to his Silvia, Takayuki changed his strategy to this, constantly pursuing and pressuring other cars until he finds an opening to attack. Granted, due to [[DrivesLikeCrazy his bad habit of never letting off of the throttle]], it's not impossible for some close calls where he almost ran into his opponents to have occured.
* {{Ubermensch}}: Ryūtarō Furuki was left despairing at what he saw of society after first retiring from street racing, to the point he immediately resumed racing and found a place he belonged on the New Belt Line. To him, the world of racing and its rules are all someone needs to live.

'''CUPID ARROWS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Sonic Runner" Mayumi Mori ☆ (until ''3''), "Dazzling White Fairy" Shōko Koizumi ☆ (regular member until ''Import Tuner Challenge''), "Moonlight Child" Kimiko Fujisaki, "Cowboy Girl" Rena Kitayama (until ''3''), "Silver Impact" Aki Azuma, "246 Heartbreaker" Takako Mutō
Another one of the original twenty teams of the Tokyo Expressway, the '''Cupid Arrows''' are an all-female, if not ''the original'' all-female racing team. When first formed, most of its members were not intrinsically familiar with the ins and outs of racing, but over time, their level has risen to admirable levels alongside their seriousness. For the few members that still lack that high level of knowledge, yet brazenly race down the Expressway each night... well, they say they're far braver than any men around.

* ActionFashionista: Shōko Koizumi is a very talented racer, good enough to become the Cupid Arrows' leader by the time of ''Import Tuner Challenge''. She's also very bold in how she presents herself and image-conscious, constantly swapping out maid outfits, frilly dresses, and other fancy, attention-grabbing attires every night she goes out to race.
* ActionMom
** Mayumi Mori, sometime between the events of ''2'' and ''Zero'', got married and had a child. This did not cause her to become any slower as a racer: matter of fact, it caused the exact opposite effect, as her husband reigned in her rowdier side and helped her focus better. She even drives her race-tuned car to drop off and pick up her kid at the kindergarten.
** Kimiko Fujisaki has been married with two kids long before Mayumi. Despite that, she's still a surprisingly competent racer with a bit of a naughty streak, enough to become Shōko's second-in-command by ''Import Tuner Challenge''.
* AuthoritativeInPublicDocileInPrivate: After getting married, Mayumi didn't stop racing. In fact, she still had her strong personality and ambition, capable of leading her team with little issue. Others begun to look up to her and call her "Miss" out of respect. In private, however, she's often begging her husband to authorize her to do anything, such as buying stuff. She's heavily reliant on him, and often goes with his decisions... barring his request for her to stop racing.
* BackhandedApology: Should Kimiko defeated the player in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', she will apologize to him... apologize for winning, that is. With how childish and mocking her tone is, even through text, it quickly doubles as a BaitAndSwitchComment.
* ConfirmedBachelor: Aki Azuma, considered one of the most stunning and beautiful women amongst all Expressway racers, is not remotely interested in any romantic pursuit.
* TheDeterminator: Despite being relatively low skilled compared to her teammates, Rena is incredibly tenacious and persistent whenever battling. This determination has allowed her to develop a shockingly high win ratio. What makes it all the more impressive is that she manages to juggle ''two'' part-time jobs with her racing hobbies.
* DifferingPrioritiesBreakup: Even a few years after her marriage and the birth of her child, Mayuri just could not call it quits on highway racing, despite her husband's pleas to do so, focus on their family, and stop throwing away money on cars. Mayuri's constant refusal leads, in ''Street Supremacy'''s continuity, to the two divorcing.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In spite of being skilled, Takako usually rolls up to the Metropolitan Expressway whenever she gets her heart broken by someone else. As such, her emotions tend to drive her judgement, leading her driving to become... "desperate", as some have put it. She sometimes tends to lose her concentration and accidentally bump into the back of braking opponents when approaching turns, which doesn't require being expert racers to know is an incredibly dangerous behaviour.
* DubNameChange:
** Mayumi Mori: to "Cool Cat" Cyndy Bates (''2''), Beth James (''Zero''), Mayumi Yoshida (''3''), Mayumi Yoshizawa (''Street Supremacy'')
** Shōko Koizumi: to "Alluring Fairy" (first game), "White Rider" Regina Lopez (''2''), "Mysterious Nymph" Star Sawyer (''Zero''), Sachiko "Shoko" Koizumi (''3''), Yoko Koizumi (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Kimiko Fujisaki: to "Moonlight Kid" Ellen Mahoney (''2''), Pamela Dumand (''Zero'')
** Rena Kitayama: to "Marathon" Mary Owens (''2''), Jonel Wilkins (''Zero''), Reina Kitayama (''3'')
** Aki Azuma: to "Tokyo" Tami Fujita (''2''), Shella Corigan (''Zero''), Aki Higashi (''3'', ''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Takako Mutō: to "Heartbreak Kid" Yoko Rich (''2''), Gloria Valdez (''Zero'')
* EccentricArtist: Shōko's main line of work is painting, and she's extremely eccentric in her behaviour, what with her being a notorious street racing, dressing in {{Meido}} outfits and frilly dresses, and turning her artistic output towards her car's interior to make it match her own aesthetics.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Rena, by virtuer of her "refershing" personality, is incredibly popular with both men and women racers on the Metropolitan Expressway.
* FoolishHusbandResponsibleWife: Reversed into Responsible Husband, Foolish Wife with the Mori family. Mayumi is a hotheaded street racer who tends to make rash decisions, is always drawing all kinds of attention to herself -- be they positive or negative -- and refuses to call it quits even when her actions take a toll on her entire family. Her husband, by contrast, is far more level-headed, supporting his wife in her quest but alwas drawing lines to how far she should go, wanting her to stay safe for everybody's sake, and ultimately growing tired with her foolish risk-taking. To further highlight this, the two divorce in ''Street Supremacy'''s continuity, and Mayumi, being a part-timer, gets a big alimony check... which she spends almost entirely on yet another car.
* GracefulLoser: Shōko invokes the trope in ''Street Supremacy'', believing the player should act his way and accept defeat, taking it stride, if defeated by her. Should the player defeated her, on the other hand, [[{{Hypocrite}} she'll act complete opposite of the trope]], immediately demanding a rematch.
* TheGhost:
** Mayumi Mori's husband, a centurion, is always mentioned in her bios starting in ''Zero'' and plays a major role in her subsequent characterization arc. Despite that, and having the necessary skillset to hang around the Metropolitan Expressway, he never appears in the flesh.
** Shōko biography in ''Import Tuner Challenge'' mentions how she carries the Cupid Arrows' long legacy on her shoulders by being the team's third leader. However, players were only introduced to her predecessor, Mayumi Mori. The identity of the Arrows' other leader is completely unknown, and they receive no mention beyond that one phrase.
* HappilyMarried
** Mayumi married sometime after the events of the first game, having a kid in the process. Despite her clashes with her husband over their differing priorities, the two clearly love each other, to the point Mayumi changed her car's color to pink at her husband's suggestion.
** Although it barely comes up, Kimiko has been happily married for years, longer than Mayumi, and has two kids. By sheer contrast with the Moris, there doesn't seem to be any tensions between the Fujisakis over Kimiko's street racing pursuit.
* {{Housewife}}: Kimiko has consistently been described as a wife and mother in charge of the household in all of her bios. ''3'' confirmed it properly by listing it as her job.
* HopelessSuitor: Takako has gone through countless of boyfriends, with every relationship ending in heartbreak for her. Just as she thought she had ''finally'' found the one, however, the two broke up by ''Import Tuner Challenge'', putting her back on square one.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Shōko believes the player should act like a GracefulLoser should she manage to defeat him in ''Import Tuner Challenge''. Upon being defeated herself, however, she will react with bitterness.
* {{Lunacy}}: Bizarrely enough, the full moon seems to have strange effects on Kimiko Fujisaki. For starters, it seems to draw out her childish behaviour, making her appear even more youthful than she normally looks. Reportedly, she is also undefeated ''and'' undefeatable whenever the full moon comes out. Kimiko might consciously be using these rumors to build up her image amongst Expressway racers.
* MarriedToTheJob: Mayumi's job -- not her "proper" job, as part-time worker, but street racer and leader of the Cupid Arrows -- often takes precedence over her husband and child, to the point she drives the latter to kindergarten in her race-tuned car. Her husband, already begging her to change by ''3'', quickly grows tired of this behaviour, leading the two to divorce in ''Street Supremacy'''s continuity.
* {{Meido}}: Shōko Koizumi has been spotted dressing this way on countless occasions, even behind the wheel. Hers is a purely aesthetic choice, however, since she is a painter.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Kimiko has been described, year after year, game after game, as looking incredibly young. Whenever the full moon's out, she looks downright child-like according to many observers. As such, it can come across as surprising to learn that she's long been married and a mother of two.
* ProneToTears: Takako tends to be emotionally tender, especially in matters of love. Given that she tends to head to the Expressway whenever one of her love stories inevitably goes badly, she is often driving through her tears.
* ShedTheFamilyName: Mayumi's maiden family name, used in the first game, is Yoshizawa. She took her husband's surname, Mori, upon marrying him between games, and retained it in all of her appearances. Even in ''Street Supremacy'''s continuity, where she divorced her husband, she still retained Mori as her surname.
* SplitPersonality: Like a few other drivers, Kimiko is normally a very quiet, reserved housewife who isn't very open to being challenged to battles... that is, unless the full moon is out. Whenever that happens, she becomes very gleeful and childlike, seemingly appearing out of the dark night to challenge anyone in her way.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Shōko acts very warmly with the other members of the Cupid Arrows, especially upon becoming the team's new leader in ''Import Tuner Challenge''. By contrast, she acts like a refined lady, cold and emotionally detached, towards outsiders. Should she lose to the player, however, she will drop the act and take it poorly. This can be seen through her speech: it is a lot more formal and refined at first, before becoming straightforwards and informal upon being defeated.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Mayumi's behaviour fits the stereotypical delinquent, behaving wildly, leading her own crew with utmost dedication, and drawing admiration from other women who call her "Miss". She even has ambiguously brown hair, which the games never clarify upon it being natural or dyed. Despite all this, she will constantly insist on not being a "Yanki".
* WetBlanketWife: In a gender-inverted example, Mayumi's husband serves as this trope to his wife, constantly begging her to quit street racing altogether and focus on him and their child.
* {{Workaholic}}: Aki is seriously dedicated to whatever work she takes on. Although most easily seen when she's working as an accountant, she's also heavily involved in organizing and holding together the Cupid Arrows at all times, helping every team member out with their individual issues as best as she can.

'''WIND STARS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Wolf's Requiem" Kiyoshi Onizuka ☆, "R Magic" Isamu Tamagawa, "Black Magician" Akihisa Tōyama (first game only), "Diamond Dust" Toshiki Aikawa, "Runaway Locomotive" Akira Nagase, "Yellow Flare" Ippei Sadaoka, "Swift-Footed Valkyrie" Natsumi Uemura, "Moody Queen" Nao Haruka, "Blue Giant Star" Tetsurō Nakata

* AchillesHeel: Tetsurō Nakata's shifting used to be the weakest part of his driving when first starting off, to the point he practiced changing gears with absurd dedication. His work paid off... until it caused him to develop fatigure arthritis in his left wrist, undoing everything and causing him to regularly miss the timing window for good shifts.
* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: No mention of Akira Nagase's parents, or any family beyond his brother, is made. Relevant due to the complete and utter despair he fell in upon his brother's passing.
* ChallengeSeeker: Natsumi Uemura will refuse to face the player if their car can't reach 300 kilometers per hour in ''Import Tuner Challenge''.
* CynicismCatalyst: Every team member had one.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Team cars tend to be darker colored, as does their logo. Despite that, they're not villainous at all.
* DrivesLikeCrazy:
** Kiyoshi Onizuka
** Nao Haruka
* DubNameChange:
** Kiyoshi Onizuka: to "Requiem" Tom Mahoney (''2''), "Requiem" Wolfgang Bell (''Zero''), Seiji Onizuka (''3''), "Wolves' Requiem" Kiyoshi Onitsuka (''Street Supremacy'')
** Isamu Tamagawa: to "Autoerotic" Victor Smith (''2''), Ralph Bukala (''Zero'')
** Toshiki Aikawa: to "Wind Rider" Sean Marshall (''2''), Dusty Eurmo (''Zero'')
** Akira Nagase: to "Rampaging Tank", "Dark Star" Paul Osborne (''2''), "Mad Train" Randy Stanza (''Zero''), "Reckless Train" (''3'')
** Ippei Sadaoka: to "Magic Man" Franklin Perry (''2''), Don Skirlock (''Zero''), "Yellow Flair" (''3'')
** Natsumi Uemura: to "Fleet Valkyrie" (first game), "All-the-Way" Alice Bayer (''2''), "Speedy Valkyrie" Francine Kuba (''Zero''), "Swifty Valkyrie" (''Street Supremacy''), Natsumi Kamimura (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Nao Haruka: to "Queen" (first game), "Queeny" Mindy Greene (''2''), Angelica Jaide (''Zero'')
** Tetsurō Nakata: to "Comeback Kid" Jose Cortez (''2''), Roy Chan (''Zero'')
* EmpathicWeapon: Akira Nagase's car seems to be this, in his own opinion. When he first inherited it and he was still working through his grief, the car refused to respond to his controls. After he begun processing it, the car started behaving as he wanted it to.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Despite all being very close to Kiyoshi and using one another to improve their situations as a form of therapy, the Wind Stars' relationships with one another are lacking, so they rarely hang out that much. Doesn't stop Toshiki Aikawa from wanting to write a song thanking them for everything.
* HotBlooded: Natsumi Uemura
* HopeBringer: Kiyoshi Onizuka to his friends and teammates.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Natsumi Uemura's driving reason.
* KungFuClairvoyance: Ippei Sadaoka, owning to his skills as a mentalist. He can see how other cars will move before they do, at speeds of over 200 kilometers per hour.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: The entire team serves as this to its members.
* LonersWillStayAlone
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: The entire team, really.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Team's logo is red-and-black... team isn't evil.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: The Nagase brothers.
* TragicKeepsake: Akira's car used to belong to his brother before his passing.

'''ROTARY REVOLUTION'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Silvery Nobleman" Toshihiko Kūonji ☆, "Cornering Artist" Toshitsugu Kūonji, "Asphalt's Sorrow" Yasuhiko Fujisaki (until ''Zero''), Hiroshi Kimura, "Dark Memorial" Sakito Ōgami, "Risky Cat" Namie Aikawa, "Ominous Bird" Akira Nagase, "High Speed Star" Ryūichi Uemura, "Blasting Manager" Tokihiro Haneba (''3'' only)
For tropes concerning "Silvery Nobleman" Toshihiko Kūonji, see here. For tropes concering "Asphalt's Sorrow" Yasuhiko Fujisaki before and after joining Rotary Revolution, see Emperoro's and Unlimited's folders here and here. For Akira Nagase's folder upon joining A.S.F., see here.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Ryūichi Uemura employs this method, helping and being helped by Toshihiko in the process. This allowed him to grow massively as a driver over the years.
* AllCaps: Hiroshi Kimura's street name is his first name spelled this way.
* AmbiguoslyAbsentParent:
* BewareTheSillyOnes
* BunnyEarsLawyer
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Namie knew the Kuonji brothers since she and Toshihiko were in school together. She ultimately marries him by the time of ''3''... but it doesn't last.
* DontThinkFeel: By contrast with his brother's AwesomenessByAnalysis, Toshitsugu drives by feeling alone.
* DoubleMeaning: The team's name can both mean "revolutionizing racing through the rotary engine" and the rotary engine's rotation as part of its working.
* DubNameChange:
** Toshitsugu Kūonji: to "Force Rider" William Thompson (''2''), "Turning Artist" Alex Thompson (''Zero''), Toshiji Kunoji (''3''), Toshitsuki Soraotera (''Street Supremacy'')
** Yasuhiko Fujisaki: to "Asphalt Scream" (first game), "Rubber Burner" Brian Thorne (''2''), "Asphalt's Cry" Nima Taghavi (''Zero'')
** Hiroshi Kimura: to "Rocker" Jerry Blumberg (''2''), Michael Steuwald (''Zero'')
** Sakito Ōgami: to "Headache" Leon Wagman (''2''), "Dark Memory" Michael Maas (''Zero''), "Amnesia" Sakihito Oogami (''Street Supremacy'')
** Namie Aikawa: to "RevoEmag" (first game), "Mood Swinger" Naomi Parker (''2''), Jynki Cruz (''Zero''), Namie Kunoji (''3''), Namie Soraotera (''Street Supremacy'')
** Akira Nagase: to "Blind Roc" (first game), "Feather Touch" Gene Douglas (''2''), "Black Bird" Matthew Scheir (''Zero''), "Strange Bird" (''3''), "Dark Phoenix" Mei Nagase (''Street Supremacy'')
** Ryūichi Uemura: to "Mr. Perfect" Vince Adagio (''2''), Marcel Pahmer (''Zero''), Ryuichi Kamimura (''3''), "Superfast Superstar" (''Street Supremacy'')
** Tokihiro Haneba: to "Kattobi Manager" Tatsuhiro Haba (''3''), "Grand-Slam Manager" Tatsuhiro Haneba (''Street Supremacy'')
* EccentricArtist: Toshitsugu
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Hiroshi Kimura, much like Hard Riff, utilizes his sense of rhythm in driving his car.
* GloryDays: Akira Nagase gradually grew obsessed with them the more time passed and the more the world of racing left him by. By his final appearance, he's been reduced to a shadow of his old self constantly complaining about how "the good old days" are gone.
* {{Housewife}}: Namie upon marrying Toshihiko
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen:
** The team used to be the fastest on the Gulf Line, only to lose the spot because of in-fighting and later dissolve due to Snake Eyes.
** Akira Nagase used to be, at one point, one of the five strongest drivers on the Expressway (per his own words). Nowadays, he's fallen so much by the wayside he appears to be ashamed of showing up/doesn't even show up to race that much at all/not even a glimpse of his past self can be seen in spite of him clinging to his former glory.
* IdentityAmnesia: Sakito Ōgami reportedly lost all of his memories of his life beforehand, beyond an "unnatural calling" towards racing which hinted everyone at him being a former racer. It isn't until ''3'' that he finally regained his memories.
* IdleRich: Toshitsugu, as the heir of a massive Zaibatsu, never had to really worry about working or making money. As such, he was free to pursue his passions of avant-garde art and street racing.
* InterclassFriendship
* IOweYouMyLife: After regaining his memories and (metaphorically) his life, Sakito feels himself indebted for life to Toshihiko and will do everything to assist him in anything he can be of any use.
* MaliciousSlander: Namie and Toshihiko are victims of this upon marrying, with insistant rumors about her and Toshitsugu secretly being brothers.
* MeaningfulName:
** Sakito Ōgami's name, atleast the one he used since developing amnesia, means "circuit god" in English, hinting at his past as a professional racer. It's unknown if he consciously or subconsciously selected it.
** InUniverse, Akira Nagase's street name originates from his rotary engine's peculiar high-pitched sound and a legend about a bird passed down from generations in his hometown.
* MegaCorp: The Kūonji brothers are scions to one, the Kūonji Zaibatsu. Of the two, Toshihiko openly works for them and uses the Zaibatsu's money to fund the team.
* NiceGuy: Unlike Toshihiko, Toshitsugu was a lot more easy-going, open and friendly with everyone, particularly with other team members.
* OldFriend: Toshihiko and Tokihiro Haneba are friends dating back to university.
* RagsToRiches: Hiroshi Kimura, after going from obscure indie kei artist to a break-out major label artist, gets a lot more money to invest in his car.
* TheResenter: Apparently, the Kūonji Zaibatsu bought out Tokihiro Haneba's father's business and left him jobless, leaving him to resent Toshihiko. Hiroshi, who is very close to both, is worried at any possible turn of events this might cause.
* SharedFamilyQuirks
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Yasuhiko Fujisaki repeatedly tried to get Toshitsugu to replace Toshihiko, not getting along with the latter. When the two brothers made up, with his plan ruined and his patience reaching its end, he promptly abandoned the team and joined Unlimited, the new strongest team on the Gulf Line.
** Ryūichi Uemura tried to pull the exact same thing at the exact same time due to a nasty falling out with Toshihiko, but Toshitsugu managed to convince him to stay and reinstated him.
* SiblingRivalry: Toshihiko and Toshitsugu did not get along well, which caused Rotary Revolution to lose momentum and its top spot as the fastest team on the Gulf Line. The two made up by the time of ''3'', only for Toshitsugu to tragically lose his life some time afterwards.
* TakeAThirdOption: Between Toshihiko's AwesomenessByAnalysis and Toshitsugu's DontThinkFeel, Hiroshi Kimura hybridizes the two approaches: he uses his innate sense of rhythm, whilst subconciously (and perhaps without even noticing) doing various calculations, which leads him to never repeat a mistake twice.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The team went through a period where the relations between its members were rocky at best, mostly due to the feud between the two Kuonji brothers. This actually lead to Yasuhiko Fujisaki to leave the team (on top of disliking Toshihiko and wanting Toshitsugu to take over). Things got better after the brothers made up around ''3''.

'''RINGS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Solitary Jackal" Takeshi Miyazawa ☆, "Vivid Slide Tail" Gorō Kishi, "Meteor" Yōsuke Arai, Satoshi "Tune Shop" Hamada, "Silver Angel" Yōko Murakami, "Sonic White Devil" Takabumi Ījima, "Carnage" Akihiro Gotō (from ''2'' onwards), "Hill Myna" Hitoshi Mitamura (from ''2'' onwards), "Rainbow Colored Domino" Ryūkō Murakami (from ''Import Tuner Challenge'' onwards)

Incredibly long-lived, now being on its sixth generation of members, '''RINGS''' are a business-minded team, leaving small space for small talk and playfulness. They're considered amongst the top teams of the Tokyo Expressway, and for good reason: any prospective applicant to join the team needs to defeat ''every other member'' before they're handed the stickers.

This approach to recruiting is also reflected in a team-wide philosophy, if not ''de facto'' policy: for a RINGS member, winning through raw power is nothing short of insulting. To prove one's superiority, members tend to detune their cars' engine down to a mere eighty percent of their full power, confident that their skills will have them see every battle through.

* TenMinuteRetirement: Takabumi Ījima tried to walk away from tuning, but could never shake the feeling and returned after an year-long pause.
* TheAloner: In ''Street Supremacy'''s continuity, Takeshi Miyazawa is found as a lonely Wanderer, RINGS having dissolved due to the team's failure to become Tokyo's strongest. He massively regrets it, and before trying to put the team back together wants to redeem himself and his failure, showing to himself he actually has what he boasted about all these years.
* AnimalMotifs: Takeshi Miyazawa has, as his street name says, the jackal, representing his lonesome nature and, atleast in ''Street Supremacy'', abandonment.
* BenevolentBoss: Takeshi Miyazawa in leading RINGS. Later his tuning shop, which he manages with his experiences.
* BoringButPractical:
** Takeshi Miyazawa's car is set up this way -- stiff suspensions, slight understeer, shorter gears to favour acceleration.
** Goro's car, as it's built with taking people on dates in mind
* CharacterDevelopment
** Yosuke
** Yoko
* DareToBeBadass: Goro will encourage the player to never give up and always strive to be cool even in defeat in ''Racing Battle C1 GP''
* TheDeterminator: Takeshi Miyazawa in races, refusing to give up until the very end.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Yōko Murakami used to belong to The Road of Justice, but quit the time upon the policy change that saw them become vigilantes.
* DubNameChange:
** Takeshi Miyazawa: to "Ghost Rider" Lee Stark (''2''), Larry Simpson (''Zero''), "Outstanding Jackal" Munetake Miyazawa (''3''), "Ultimate Jaguar" Munetake Miyazawa (''Street Supremacy''), "Lone Jackal" Munetake Miyazawa (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Gorō Kishi: to "Super Slide Tail" (first game), "Drag Devil" Ted Stanton (''2''), "Shocking Slide Tail" Red Collins (''Zero''), "Vivid Slide Tale" (''3''), "Stunning Tail Slide" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Yōsuke Arai: to "Shooting Star Yosuke" (first game), "Lazy Boy" Max Davids (''2''), Butch Franco (''Zero''), "Shooting Star" (''3''), "Yosuke the Shooting Star" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Satoshi Hamada: to "The Mechanic" (first game), "Tune Up" Tom Rock (''2''), "Tune up Junky" Koook Boosten (''Zero''), "Hamada the Customizer" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Yōko Murakami: to "The Brat" Christine Cox (''2''), Ida Balm (''Zero'')
** Takabumi Ījima: to "Race Addict" Hans Ulrich (''2''), "White Devil" Max Maxwell (''Zero''), "White Devil" Takafumi Iijima (''3''), "Supersonic Demon" Takafumi Iijima (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Akihiro Gotō: to "Road Rage" Mike Otis (''2''), "Flume" Arnold Willis (''Zero''), "Asura" (''3''), "The Sensei" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Hitoshi Mitamura: to "Mumbler" Jimmy Spears (''2''), "Myna Bird" Webster Lewis (''Zero''), "Mynah Bird" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Ryūkō Murakami: to "Domino Spectrum" Ryukoh Murakami (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
* TheFettered: Detuning their cars to not win through raw power leads to higher skill and mental fortitude
* * FireForgedFriends:
** Takeshi and Yosuke, by ''Import Tuner Challenge''
** Takeshi and Takabumi
* FreudianExcuse:
** Yoko cannot stand Satoshi because the latter reminds her far too much of her late father.
** Takabumi thinks human relationships to be troublesome, but he very much felt RINGS' former leader retiring and handing the reigns to Takeshi, whom he seems in a critical light.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Yoko, making other members of RINGS feel uncomfortable. Of course, it's a very superficial thing, as seen in ''Import Tuner Challenge''.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Takabumi Ījima does not hang out with the rest of RINGS, believing human relationships to be troublesome.
* GoalInLife: Whilst only revealed in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', Takeshi Miyazawa always longed to own his own tuning shop. He finally got his wish by that game. Also, making RINGS the strongest team on the Expressway, obviously.
* HopeBringer: Goro to other unattractive racers, PlayedForLaughs
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Takabumi used to be one of the strongest drivers around years prior. Now, he considers himself a failed racer, dejected and turned away by any team other than RINGS.
* HyperAwareness: Yosuke Arai is capable of telling the condition of a car just by driving it and nothing else
* InformedAttribute: Goro being unattractive
* IronicName: Silver Angel does not act very angel like.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Yoko, whom her own bio describes as selfish
* KavorkaMan: Goro, being unattractive yet being at the center of attention and getting plenty of dates since he started racing on the Expressway
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Eventually, Yoko and Satoshi, always bickering but very close underneath the surface, always helping one another.
* MagneticHero: Takeshi Miyazawa, who manages to convince the rest of RINGS to follow him on enthusiasm and competence alone. Even the most sceptic, Yosuke Arai, is swayed.
* MasterOfAll: Satoshi Hamada, capable of doing everything car-related: driving, racing, tuning, repairs. It's how he ended up with his street name to begin with.
* NonIndicativeName: "Vivid Tail Slide", as beyond dates and attempts to impress people, it's barely used
* PassingTheTorch: Takeshi Miyazawa was on the receiving end of this sometime around the events of the first game. He spent the next two years earning his teammates' trust and convinced them to aim for higher goals.
* ThePerfectionist: Takeshi Miyazawa spends hours driving on the Expressway every day in order to constantly improve himself, and carries a similar mentality towards his teammates. Upon being defeated by the player, he'll furiously declare his belief that there is still a ''lot'' of room for improvement.
* ReallyGetsAround: Goro dates a lot of people
* RevolvingDoorBand
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Takeshi Miyazawa's personal philosophy is that as long as someone can aim higher, they should: RINGS will only be able to rest once they've become the strongest. As such, it's less "second place is for losers", but "settling for second place is for losers".
* SourSupporter: Yosuke Arai to Takeshi Miyazawa when compared to his predecessor. Ultimately swept away by the latter's enthusiasm
* TalentedButTrained: Takeshi Miyazawa
* TaughtByExperience: Yosuke Arai
* ToBeAMaster: Takeshi Miyazawa's goal isn't to make himself the Expressway's best, but to make RINGS the best team in the entire Expressway, which means making each individual member one of the best on the Expressway.
* TrueCompanions: Takeshi and Satoshi: the latter reportedly tapped the former for RINGS' next leader, and in spite of Takeshi being the senior, the two have had each other's back since they first met as RINGS members.
* {{Tsundere}}: Yoko, towards Satoshi
* WhatsHeGotThatIAintGot: Goro, on the receiving end due to his success with women, gets bullied
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Yoko and Satoshi, much to Takeshi's hire
* {{Workaholic}}: Takeshi Miyazawa, if it means getting RINGS to the top.

'''SPEED MASTER'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Ice Man" Shinji Takiguchi ☆ (until ''Zero''), "Full Moon Insanity" Daisuke Ōkawara ☆ (regular member until ''3''), "Sunset Liner" Ryō Shibusawa (until ''Zero''), "White Witch" Yūka Yamamura (until ''Zero''), "Visual Tail" Tetsuya Kobayashi (until ''Zero''), "Pearl White Kiss" Rena Oyama, "Maniac Player" Hidenori Inoue (until ''Zero''), "Black Angel" Ayako Iwasaki, "First Beat" Tetsurō Akiyama, "Nameless Hero Gechena" Atsushi Kameyama (from ''Zero'' onwards), "Angry Princess" Junko Yamaguchi (from ''3'' onwards), "Midnight Hawks" Shin'ichirō Takayama (from ''3'' onwards), "Humiliation Contractor" Susumu Yagishita (from ''3'' onwards), "Lady White" Ryōko Honma (from ''3'' onwards), "Colorful Alley" Akinori Miyabe (from ''3'' onwards)
For tropes regarding Junko Yamaguchi when she was a member of Gesellschaft, see the team's folder here. For tropes regarding Shin'ichirō Takayama and Susumu Yagishita when they belonged to Dry Cruise, see the team's folder here.

* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Rena's bio in ''Zero'' stated she had feelings for Shinji Takiguchi. Upon Shinji's retirement, however, her feelings shifted to the new team leader, Daisuke.
* TheAce:
** Shinji Takiguchi, one of the best racers in all of Tokyo, incredibly knowledgeable about cars and their individual parts, incredibly charismatic, considered a symbol in his own right.
** Daisuke Okawara finally becomes this by ''3'': like his predecessor, he's incredibly devout to improving, with a massive potential, one of the best racers around at a relatively young age, a very good people's person, a good leader.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Tetsuya Kobayashi
* BecomingTheMask: Tetsuro Akiyama started racing merely for research, but found himself genuinly hooked. He joined Speed Master right afterwards.
* BoringButPractiucal:
** Shinji's driving style, described as old-fashioned and conservative. Likewise, he refuses to change out parts on his R34, relying on the same old, same old but knowing them like the back of his hand and allowing him to tell if something isn't running as well as it should.
** Yuka's tuning and set-up is this compared to some of the zanier ones found across the Expressway: soft suspension, specialty sports ECU, strenghtened frame... compared, for example, to Rhythm Box's cars being covered in speakers or even Depraved Blade's unstable set-up, it's very basic. It also allows her FD to hit 350 kilometers per hour.
** Reina's Skyline is tuned with ease of handling in mind over raw power. This leads her to sacrifice some top-end gains, but makes the car easily controllable and predictable.
** Akinori Miyabe's driving style relies heavily on the basics. This means it doesn't truly have anything exceptional or remakrable, but that it also lacks weak spot, being simple and reliable.
* BreakingTheFellowship: Attempted, as Shinji's retirement caused one member to quit and likely lead to three more quitting, crippling the team in the process. Daisuke went above and beyond to avoid this, and succeeded by recruiting new members, a few from other members.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Shinji Takiguchi was at first shown as merely bold, calm, king-like and overwhelming when driving. His final appearance in ''Zero'' finally expanded upon that, revealing that, no, he is a genuinely skilled driver who actively cares about others and puts a lot of work into his craft.
* TheCharmer: Ayako Iwasaki is this, easily charming everyone she comes across through her beauty and driving skills. She trided to use this on Tetsuro Akiyama, only for him to NoSell it and her to all for him.
* ChildhoodFriends: Yuka and Rena have been very close friends since their junior high days.
* CloudCuckooLander: Yuka Yamamura is said to extremely eccentric with her ideas.
* CommitmentIssues:
** Yuka Yamamura is completely uninterested in having a boyfriend at this time.
** Likewise, Reina will claim that she prefers cars to men, being completely uninterested in men. It's ultimately a smokescreen for her unrequited crush on Shinji and, later, Daisuke.
* ConfusionFu: What Yuka Yamamura's racing style appears to be, as she never sticks to a single line and always attacks from the most unexpected ones, causing her opponents to panic. It's all very calculated on her part, however.
* CripplingOverspecialization:
** Daisuke Okawara specializes in straight-run top speed runs, which puts him at a disadvantage. By ''3'', the pressure of leadership has finally got him to become a better racer and master that too.
** Ayako's car is geared for top speed runs. This makes her a sitting duck against fast-accelerating cars and in areas where she can't bring out her Supra's speed. However, if she manages to get her speed up...
* DubNameChange:
** Shinji Takiguchi: to "The King" Taylor Griffin (''2''), Alan Nguyen (''Zero'')
** Daisuke Ōkawara: to "Full Moon Lunatic" (first game), "Overdrive" Trent Thatcher (''2''), "Crazy Moon" Anthony Avn (''Zero''), "The Insane Moon" Daisuke Ogawara (''3''), "Moon Howler" Daisuke Ookawara (''Street Supremacy'')
** Ryō Shibusawa: to "Sunset Runner" (first game), "Master Planner" Timmy Lyons (''2''), "Sunset Rider" Steve Jacobs (''Zero'')
** Yūka Yamamura: to "Sea Breeze" Gina Jones (''2''), Stephanie Solis (''Zero'')
** Tetsuya Kobayashi: to "Steady" Steve Hartman (''2''), Joe Marsh, (''Zero'')
** Rena Oyama: to "Paranoid" Paula O'Toole (''2''), "Pearl Kiss" Linda Huynh (''Zero''), "Pearly Whites" (''Street Supremacy'')
** Hidenori Inoue: to "Piano Man" Martin Gill (''2''), Bob Phlance (''Zero'')
** Ayako Iwasaki: to "Man Eater" Alicia Lopez (''2''), Jen Reil (''Zero'')
** Tetsurō Akiyama: to "Cover Story" Ed Meier (''2''), "Fast Beat" Ed Lai (''Zero''), "Fast Beat" (''Street Supremacy'')
** Atsushi Kameyama: to "Unknown Hero" Tim Jones (''Zero''), "The Nameless Hero" (''3''), "Jackpot" (''Street Supremacy'')
** Shin'ichirō Takayama: to Shinichiro Kozan (''Street Supremacy'')
** Susumu Yagishita: to "The Contractor" Susumi Yagishita (''3''), "Big Disgrace" Susumu Yanagishita (''Street Supremacy'')
** Akinori Miyabe: to "Backstreet" (''3''), "Love Machine" (''Street Supremacy'')
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Out of the old guard members, Daisuke was openly loathed by Tetsuya and Ryo, whilst Hidenori thought Yuka was the right person to become the new leader.
* FriendlyRival: Ryoko Honma is this to Daisuke Okawara, being described as "fighting friends
* HeroWorshipper: Shinji Takiguchi is on the receiving end of this by a lot of racers, who were all inspired by him to start running. He personally talks to them and gives them advice on a regular basis.
* HiddenDepths: In spite of having picked up highway racing to find her missing brother, Ayako is a genuinly skilled all-around race car driver, having won a drag race tournament in the time between ''Zero'' and ''3''.
* HopelessSuitor: Yuka Yamamura has an entire queue of men trying to court her who fall into this trope by default, since she is nowhere near remotely interested in the idea of having a boyfriend at the moment. One of them is Tetsuya Kobayashi
* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: Reina has feelings for Shinji and, later, Daisuke. She refused to quit Speed Master alongside Yuka almost exclusively for the latter, but she never managed to spit it out.
* InformedAttribute: Daisuke is purported to be "faster" than Shinji Takiguchi. Not only does Shinji's car have better parts, but a better set-up and top speed to boot.
* InstantExpert: Ayako. According to ''3'', she only has two years of experience by that point, meaning she managed to join Speed Master as a complete rookie.
* IntrepidReporter: Tetsuro Akiyama, having become a street racer to write reports about them. He later begun writing books about the subject matter, including one on Jintei.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Tetsuya Kobayashi, in spite of having joined Speed Master very recently, thinks of himself extremely highly, and believes himself to be the only one who can be the next leader. When that doesn't happen, he promptly quits.
* ItsAllMyFault: Daisuke will react this way if Speed Master disbands whilst he's the leader and the player is a member in ''Street Supremacy''. He's not going to take it egregiously bad, but there'll be a tinge of regret.
* KansasCityShuffle: After folks started declaring Ryō Shibusawa's "genius strategy" of going off-rhythm, he decided to not correct them and let them think that way in spite of it not being on purpose, but how he genuinly drives. It likely feeds into his myth and causes them to get the wrong read on his movements.
* KillingIntent: In a sense, the mere act of sitting behind a steering wheel by Shinji Takiguchi causes people to feel a freezing cold aura radiating off of him. It only gets stronger when he starts tailing an opponent's car.
* KnowledgeBroker: Tetsurō Akiyama doubles as this. Ayako approached him exactly for this reason, looking for information on her brother. Jintei.
* TheLadette: Reina does not limit herself to race, she's also openly interested in tuning and set-ups, to the point of being Speed Master's go-to mechanic.
* LastOfHisKind: Junko Yamaguchi is the last of the former Gesellschaft members to still be an active racer by ''3''3.
* MightMakesRight: Daisuke believes the Expressway works this way. Although he doesn't openly express any strong feelings over the matter, he does seem disappointed by its consequences, such as chewing up and spitting out talented drivers.
* NervesOfSteel: Shinji Takiguchi
* TheOnlyOneITrust: Ryō Shibusawa exclusively trusts Shinji Takiguchi, to the point he's the only member of the team he openly listens to and gives the benefit of doubt.
* TheParanoiac: Rena Oyama used to live a very ordinary, plain life, until ''something'' happened that caused her to constantly feel like something was chasing after her. She begun racing on the Expressway to escape from this feeling, this undetermined "something". She grew out of it by ''Zero'', but she still remains a bit out there.
* PassedOverPromotion: Tetsuya was convinced he was next in line to lead Speed Master upon learning that Shinji was considering retirement. The leadership went to Daisuke instead.
* PassingTheTorch
* RevolvingDoorBand:
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Tetsuya Kobayashi wanted to succeed Ice Man at leading the team. Upon Daisuke succeeding the latter, Tetsuya up and left, causing a chain reaction and almost causing the team to collapse in the process. Although not directly confirmed, it is likely this is also why Ryo, Hidenori, Yuka quit Speed Master, with the former two backing other team members for the role (Ryo backed Tetsuya, Hidenori backed Yuka).
* SharedFamilyQuirk: Ayako and Jintei: street racers and instant experts.
* ShesAManInJapan: In spite of retaining the same name, international releases of ''Street Supremacy'' utilize male pronouns to refer to Ayako.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Daisuke to the player in ''Street Supremacy''.
* StrategySchmategy: Ryō Shibusawa takes corner slower than others, which causes his racing rhytm to go out of whack. This is completely unintentional and subconscious on his part, even after he's been made aware of it.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: Ryō Shibusawa's driving style accidentally causes him to go out of rhythm; his opponents believe this to be a strategy of his, and he doesn't correct any of them.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Tetsuya Kobayashi, less evil and more dislikeable.
* UnknownRelative: Ayako to Jintei. In the ''Street Supremacy'' continuity, she's found out about his identity, and continues to race to try and get close to him.
* {{Workaholic}}: Akinori Miyabe, being the newest member of Speed Master, is nonetheless an extremely hard worker, eager to learn, constantly buying books on cars and racing and listening to the stories of drivers in the various parking areas.
* YouFool: Daisuke will call the player this should Speed Master defeat their team in ''Street Supremacy''.
* YoungAndInCharge: Daisuke is considered this, in spite of having raced for eight years by the time of ''3'' and nearing his thirties by ''Street Supremacy''. In fact, he's not even in the youngest half of the team's drivers after Ice Man leaves.
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'''LITTLE GANG'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Happy and Run" Yōichi Takasu ☆, "Kiss My Bumper" Musashi Takaya, "Talking Headbutt" Naritarō Sada, "Mister Thank You" Yukio Karashima, "Spring Bird" Nobumasa Hijikata, "Lazy Tarō" Kazuo Kokubo
Little Gang was a very short-lived team, established with the idea of having fun in mind. With an easy-going atmosphere, many rookies and newcomers to street racing flocked to their ranks, something that slowly caused something of a competitive spirit to emerge deep within the team. However, before anything could change, Little Gang dissolved in thin air after the events of ''Zero''.
* AFatherToHisMen: Yoichi, looking after them and giving them sound advice. He's greatly respected as a result.
* BrilliantButLazy: Yoichi Takasu, as a result of being uninterest in battles. He's otherwise a surprisingly competent racer
* DubNameChange:
** Yōichi Takasu: to "Joy Rider" Rick Barry, "Happy Run" Rick Barry
** Musashi Takaya: to "Can Man" Joe Russell, "Kiss my Bumper" Z Moe
** Naritarō Sada: to "Funny Bone" Vic Mandel, "Talking Head" Brian Wilson
** Yukio Karashima: to "The Snake" Tom Marvin, "Mr. Thanks" Truman Corwin
** Nobumasa Hijikata: to "Comeback Kid" Rico Louis, Mack Ross
** Kazuo Kokubo: to "Lazy Bones" Bart Micheals, "Lazy Butt" Wally Walton
* MeaningfulName: "Mister Thank You" got the street name because he's always grateful to others, no matter how small what he does might be.
* WithFriendsLikeThese

'''KNIFE & FORKS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Matchless Full Course" Masayuki Miura ☆, "Table Manners" Tsutomu Kagawa, "Romanée-Conti" Shuhei Kijima, "Midnight à La Mode" Yuji Nishitani, "Golden Cream Sauce" Sukeyuki Saeki, "Four Star Driver" Pierre Tanaka, "Crimson Tablecloth" Asami Hanata
* AmicableExes: There have been cases of inter-team romance, at times a teammate left one to hook up with another. In spite of that, it did nothing to cause tensions on the workplace or undermine team unity.
* AngryChef: Yuji Nishitani, not "always angry" and doesn't appear to be abusive towards any of his teammates, but short tempered and known for putting more spices in his dishes after losing
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: "Romanée-Conti" Shuhei Kijima doesn't just have an encyclopedic knowledge of wines, but one of cars too, making him capable of easily recognizing well-tuned vehicles and highly skilled drivers with nothing more but a simple glance. This has earned him the nickname of "Car Somélier".
* ButNotTooForeign: Pierre Tanaka, apprentice chef at the restaurant, is half-French, half-Japanese.
* ChefOfIron: Yuji Nishitani, Pierre Tanaka, and Sukeyuki Saeki are, respectively, the chef, apprentice chef and patissier of La Libertè, and all three are active street racers. Of the lot, however, only Tanaka is recognized for his skills in the latter.
* DubNameChange:
** Masayuki Miura: to "Mr. Full Course" Ted Smith, "Invincible Dinner" Sheldon Lowell, "Invincible Meal" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Tsutomu Kagawa: to "Car Guy" Charlie Roberts, Tom Harrison, "
** Shuhei Kijima: to "Red & White" Alan Starr, "Street Wine" Jimmy Solara
** Yuji Nishitani: to "Hot Head" Jon Tepper, "Golden Cream Soup" Greg Purcott, "Gold Curry Sauce" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Sukeyuki Saeki: to "A La Mode" Brian Silver, Guido Harkness, "Twilight A La Mode" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Pierre Tanaka: to "The Technician" Pierre Rhodes, "4 Star Driver" Elvis Turner
** Asami Hanata: to "Happy Face" Julie Summers, "Red Table Cloth" Johnny Perkins, Asami Hanaya (''3''), Mami Hanatani (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
* FoundFamilyViaWork
* FrenchCuisineIsHaughty: La Libertè, the restaurant which employs the entire team, is a French-style bistrot with an impressive wine selection and a short-tempered chef at its employ. It's definitely not a cheap establishment to eat at, judging by how much money the team has to throw around on an expensive hobby like cars and how they're planning to open two more locations in Nagoya and Osaka in ''Import Tuner Challenge''. Bonus points for having an half-French apprentice chef.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen
* LovedByAll
* MeaningfulName: The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is considered one of the world's greatest wine-producing estates. Shuhei Kijima, whose street name is derived from it, is an extremely renowned wine somelier.
* NiceGirl: Asami Hanata, waitress and ''de facto'' face of La Libertè, is known for her warm smile and capacity of making everyone feel at ease
* RealMenCook: On top of being decently-to-good skilled street racers, the restaurant's two chefs (and patissier) are both men.
* RedBaron: Shuhei Kijima, on top of his street name of "Romanée-Conti", is also known in some circles as "Car Somèlier" thanks to his encyclopedic knowledge of wines and cars.
* ThemeNaming: Every member's street name is related to an element of a restaurant.
** "Crimson Tablecloth" refers, obviously enough, to the table cloths in use by restaurants. More specifically, it refers to the red tablecloths once in use in some high cuisine restaurant that have since fallen out of style.
** "Four Star Driver" refers to the five-star rating system invented in 1958 to review hotels, which has since spread and has become used to review just about anything. An unlikely alternative is it referring to the Michelin star rating system, which goes up to three: thus, Tanaka literally broke the ratings' scale.
** "Golden Cream Sauce" refers to Sukeyuki's job as the patissiere of La Libertè and the color of some French sweet dishes, most famously ''crème brûlée''. "Golden cream sauce" is also used to refer to saffron sauce, an incredibly expensive cream used in some Mediterranean dishes, including French ones.
** "Midnight à La Mode" refers to "à la mode", which is a French term used to say "a dish made or served in a certain style".
** As mentioned under MeaningfulName, "Romanée-Conti" refers to the world-renowed wine-producing estate.
** "Table Manners" refers to the ''etiquette'' one is expected to carry whilst eating in the company of others, especially at higher-class locales.
** Finally, "Matchless Full Course" refers to, well, a restaurant's full course, whose size can vary but classically includes an appetizer, a first, a second, a dessert and an accompaniying drink during or afterwards.
* TookALevelInBadass: Knife & Forks gradually grow better through-out the entire series: they start off as very early game opponents in ''2'' and ''Zero'', usually the third or fourth team players defeat, before upgrading their cars and moving to Yokohane in ''3'', where they're noticeably tougher. They've switched their original cars out for high-performing ones in ''Import Tuner Challenge'', becoming a late-game team in the process. InUniverse, the team has always been held back by their gentlemanly manners and complete lack of hostility between its members: Masayuki Miura, the team's leader, noticed these flaws and realized that this approach was becoming unsubstainable, which caused him to put down an ultimatum to improve. It clearly seems to have paid off.
* TranquilFury: On a good day after losing, Yuji Nishitani will not express it outwardly, but through his cooking.
* TrueCompanions:

'''BLACK KNIGHTS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Sword of Dragon" Kyōhei Ryūsaki ☆, "Dark Attendant" Jō Mikami, "Dark Executioner" Tetsuji Etō, "Dark Eyes" Ichirō Kashiwara, "Shibuya Crow" Tōru Kamiya, "Shrouding Dark Cloud" Norio Hashimoto, "Black Clothed Miracle" Masaaki Mukai

* DarkIsNotEvil
* TeamDad: Ichiro often serves as the mediator for other team members whenever disputes arise, calming everyone down and finding solutions. Mikami and Eto's constant fighting would've made the team fall apart by now if Ichiro wasn't there to hold everything together, making him more of a leader than Kyohei. Unlike typical Team Dads, however, he's very warm and human towards others, adding in a touch of TeamMom.
* FriendshipFavoritism: In contrast with the rest of the team, Kyohei ''adores'' Tetsuji, loving him like a little brother and focusing all of his attention on him. This causes Mikami to browbeat Kyohei for playing favorites, causing Tetsuji to stand up for their leader, leading to a vicious cycle that risks destroying the team -- if it hasn't.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: No one besides Kyohei even remotely tolerates Eto. Toru believes Eto to be the key source of drama and dissension within the team.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Masaaki has reportedly known Kyohei for years beforehand. In spite of that, he's rarely seen with the rest of the Black Knights, and prefers to either run alone or go skirt-chasing.
* KnowledgeBroker: Toru Kamiya has information and can get information on every driver, not just in Kanto Prefecture but across all of Japan. That's the main reason why Kyohei brought him onboard.
* MysteriousEmployer: As Kyōhei Ryūsaki built and financed the team from the ground up for his own amusement, he also doubles as the Black Knights' employer. No one knows a thing about him, not even team members closest to him like Etō, he just gives out orders and everyone follows thanks to his money and charisma.
* MysteriousPast: On paper, Kyōhei is the president of a trading company specializing in antiques. In practice, his real job is completely unknown, and all sorts of rumours abound on his past, including his being a former test driver.
* OnlyFriend: Kyōhei is the only member of the team to openly treat Etō well, almost like a younger brother. Every other member of the Black Knights looks down on him due to his haughty personality.
* TheRival: Etō and Mikami cannot stand each other: the former finds the an arrogant lackey with no skill and cannot stand how he tries to browbeat the team leader, whilst the latter finds the former's personality unbearable.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The logical result of a mercenary team -- team members (mostly) respect Kyohei and follow him through raw charisma, but they're constantly bickering and fighting one another.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Norio Hashimoto joined the team after being starstruck by Kyohei's charisma. As such, although he isn't the fastest or the best, he constantly strives to improve to finally be noticed and get his approval.

'''GALAXY RACERS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Dependable Club President" Kenji Akibara ☆ (regular member from ''3'' onwards), "Broken Arrow" Kazuto Miyama, "Love And Fantasy Erotica" Shina Masanobu, "Mister Othello" Toshiya Nishiura ☆ (regular member until ''3''), "Sweet Honey" Akiya Hisako, "Sabrina" Rena Okamoto, "Eternal Red Zone" Shimizu Keigo
* ChildhoodFriend: Rena and Akiya have been the best friends long before university. Even though the former knows next to nothing about cars, she still joined the Galaxy Racers to keep an eye out on the latter.
* HopelessSuitor: Toshiya hopelessly carries a torch for fellow team mate Akiya, knowing full well he has no chance of winning her over. If ''Street Supremacy'' is canon, that is exactly what happened soon after he became the team's leader.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: Of the very rare college-level variety.
* TheMentor: Kenji Akibara mentored Kazuto Miyama and Masanobu Shīna, teaching them everything he knew about cars, tuning, and racing.
* NewMeat:
** Rena Okamoto knows little-to-nothing about cars and joined the team to keep an eye out for her best friend Akiya. In spite of her hard working nature and willingness to learn, she's mostly looked down by the rest of the team, and heavily relies on Kenji Akibara's help to get by, even after he's left university to start his own garage.
** Shimizu Kogo signed up for university and joined the Galaxy Racers shortly before the events of ''3''. As such, he's still learning the ropes and doing things no experienced driver would do, such as constantly redlining his car. In spite of all this, he has the reputation of a "terrible rookie", capable of beating an R32 under the right circumstances.
* PointyHairedBoss: Toshiya Nishiura was not expected to be made the new leader after Akibara, nor was he expecting it himself. As such, he finds himself wholly unprepared on all accounts, too distracted by his crush on a fellow team member to get things together.
* PromotedToPlayable: They're one of fifteen teams the player can join in ''Street Supremacy''.
* PassingOfTheTorch: Kenji Akibara, first leader of the team, handed the reigns over to Toshiya Nishiura after leaving the university. In spite of that, he remained a supportive member of the Galaxy Racers until the team dissolved.
* TheRival: Rena Okamoto has one with "Midnight Blue" Kazuyuki Inakoshi due to his obsession with her best friend. As such, the two clash frequently in defense and in pursuit, respectively, of Akiya.
* SchoolClubsAreSeriousBusiness
* TakeAThirdOption: Kenji Akibara, then leader of the team, was expected to pick one of his two students, Kazuto Miyama and Masanobu Shina, to succeed him when it became apparent he was going to step down. Akibara was of the same idea, until he noticed how much Kazuto and Masanobu were arguing and fighting for who'd get the spot. Fed up with it, he decided to pick neither and hand the leader position to Toshiya Nishiura, a complete outsider. This, of course, lead to everyone else disagreeing, and lead to further in-fighting.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Nishiura being chosen to lead the team split it into three separate camps: those who agreed with former leader Akibara's choice, those who had backed Miyama for the spot, or those who backed Shina as leader.

'''DEPARTURES'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Happy Chappy" Michiro Tokashiki ☆, "Midnight Executioner" Tetsuya Nakane (until ''Zero''), "Sweet Surrender" Michika Sano, "Cool Site" Kei Soma, "Great Finance" Hiroshi Aizawa, "Up Beat" Hiroyuki Nakano, "Glass Nobleman" Satoru Shimosato (until ''3'')

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Michika Sano trusts data and numbers above any feeling. She always keeps a laptop on his passenger's seat to record driving data, get directions, and tune his car's electronics on the fly
* FireForgedFriends: As they were brought together artificially, on top of their strong individual personalities, the team didn't gel together for years. In spite of that, they continued to stick together and never really dissolved, and by the time of ''Import Tuner Challenge'', they've become very close with one another.
* FriendOnTheForce: Team leader used to be a well-known police officer, if not a downright influential one according to rumors. He still gets real-time information on traffic jams, accidents, and construction work from his former co-workers, which reportedly gives him an edge in races.
* {{Irony}}: Team leader, as a policeman, used to get into high-speed chases. He resigned after being moved to a desk job to continue being in high-speed chases, this time as a street racer.
* MoralityChain: Team leader has his unseen family as this: whenever he thinks of doing something reckless, thinking of them is enough to deter him.

'''RHYTHM BOX'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Hip Hop Red" Kaoru Iguchi ☆, "Jazz Green" Hiroshi Okamoto, "Classical Blue" Ryoma Igarashi, Takayoshi "Paul" Suzuki (first game only), "Pink Groove" Misa Yoshida, "Midnight Blue" Kazuyuki Inakoshi, "Raging Coreographer" Toru Murasaki (from ''2'' onwards)
* SteelEarDrums: Members tend to listen to their favorite genre at full blast, loud enough that it can be heard from the outside. Special mention to Kaoru Iguchi, whose car is covered top to bottom in aftermarket speaker.
* ColourfulThemeNaming: All members [[OddNameOut bar one at all times]] have street names containing one genre of music and one colour. Kazuyuki seems to buck the trend, when in reality, "midnight" is a subgenre of electronic music.
* OddNameOut: Originally, it was Takayoshi Suzuki whose street name did not fit with the rest of the team. His replacement, Toru Murasaki, also has a street name that doesn't contain a music genre nor a colour, but coreography is atleast more thematically appropriate for a music-themed team.

'''HARMONIZE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Visual Driver" Sōichi Okita ☆, Keigo "Corner Block" Gojō, "Shutokou Silver Arrow" Kōsuke Shimada, "Aero Star" Kazutomo Matsubara, Shinnosuke "Water Drift" Ashiya, "Brand New Thunder" Masashi Hatanaka, "Dreaming Flash" Sōji Harasawa

'''SUPER SPEED WAGON'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Revolutionary Flag Bearer" Yōichi Sumi ☆, "Magical" Takashi Sugihara, "Whiney Tarō" Toshinobu Kimishima, "Fruity Bucket" Mikiya Itsutsuji, "Splash Jirō" Tatsuhiko Rokutanta, "Shuffle" Himodo Shirota

'''RATT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Monkey Flight Sasuke" Takeshi Miyazawa ☆, "Red Shadow" Shingo Yamashita, "Great Runner" Mako Tazaki, "Rental Driver" Tomohiro Masuda, "Gamer Racer" Keisuke Abe, "Drift Queen" Hiromi Ochi, "373" Jun Sannami (''3'' only)

'''GESELLSCHAFT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Time is Money" Toshio Kabaya ☆, "Dawn Lost Grass" Takeshi Kanzaki, "Lonely Survivor" Mamoru Momouchi, "Cool Advertiser" Tomohiro Teruya, "Happy Extreme" Takuya Kusano, "Angry Princess" Junko Yamaguchi
* GoalInLife
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: One possible way Gesellschaft's break-up can be seen. The team's end goal was always to develop its members as street racers: with Junko Yamaguchi being drafted into the ranks of Speed Master, one of the strongest teams in all of Tokyo, the team's goal had effectively been reached.
* ToBeAMaster

'''QUEEN'S PARADISE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Shocking Joe" Tetsuharu Kōda ☆, "Sunday" Kōji Kawada, Norio "Balalaika" Katō, Kenji "Chopper" Tanaka, "Lucky Man" Yuki Isaka, "Dawn Ballade" Takenosuke Hashida, "Phantom Lohengrin" Seiji Fukaya
* ImpossibleTask: Tetsuharu was told by his cousin that "if he became the fastest man on the Expressway, he was going to become popular with the ladies". Not only he realized said claim to be false, but even if it was true, he realized just how out of his league he was.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Quoted almost word-by-word in Tetsuharu's bio, where, after first becoming a street racer, he realized there were two kinds of people racing on the Tokyo Expressway: "Those who are good drivers but unpopular with women, and those who are popular with women but aren't good drivers". He naturally found himself leading both.

'''CATZ'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Flame Revenger" Kenji Kawasaki ☆, "Dark Mantle" Masaki Tanishige "Shutokou Wall" Hiromi Aranuma, "Wine Chase" Jun'ichi Akimoto, "Firefighter" Masumi Sugiyama, "Flame Sedan Rider", Yūsaku Tsuruoka, "Unlucky Duke" Kiichi Hamada

'''THE ROAD OF JUSTICE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Hearing Master" Yasuhiro Hashimoto ☆, "Shutokou Magician" Hiroshi Sasaoka, Masa "Fighting" Nemoto, "Wall Man" Kanji Kobayashi, "Flame Cannon" Yoshio Nakamura, "Shining" Ayarō Takayama, "Happy Rabbit" Yūki Hitomi
* ForGreatJustice

'''EXPLOSION'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Scythe Weasel" Keizō Kudō ☆, "Gold Fang" Mitsuo Kurata, "Trouble Maker" Hayato Ōki, "Silent Sense" Tomoyuki Kobayashi, "Blue Phoenix" Shōtarō Uno, "Through Dog" Hiroshi Kano

'''HIGHWAY OUTLAW'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Spirit Crusher" Eriks Kuimov ☆, "Pride Killer" Colm Hornell, "Coldhearted Emotionless Nobleman" Mihael Slum, "Mad Driver" Cain Geitist, "Driving Sir" Tom Schyster, "Totem Pole" Edward Miller, "Spiral" Steve O'Hara
For tropes regarding Hornell and Schyster as members of Red Pollution, see here.
* NumberTwo
* SmallNameBigEgo

'''DRY CRUISE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Scaffolding Masa" Masahiko Akiyama ☆, "Midnight Hawks" Shin'ichirō Takayama, "Humiliation Contractor" Susumu Yagishita, "Rain Master" Yūsuke Kimura, "Mister Max" Jōtarō Hosaka, "Mister Muscle" Masatoshi Tamura, "Angel Smile" Takeshi Tamaki

'''E.R.O.'''
!!!'''Team Members''': Kiyoshi "Partitioner" Sudo, "Non Stop Emotion" Shin'ichi Wada, "Brand New Morning" Hayato Gonda, "Cool B" Yukihiro Obata, "Star Catching Man" Kazuma Miyake, "Sentimental Flame" Tomonari Omiya, "Strange Devil" Shin'ichiro Ishige
* TheDeterminator:
* ICallItVera:

'''TEAM ALPHA'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Texas White Wolf" Bruce Rickfield ☆, "Gatling" Joe Klein, Mike "The Horseman" Leven, "Mocking Shadow" Robert Brewster, "Rock Spider" John Howard, "Code F" Harry Tullman
* DrivesLikeCrazy

'''THUNDER DRAGOON'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Black Dragon" Yonghui Wang, "White Dragon" Lingzhou Chen, "Yellow Dragon" Xingchen Li, "Red Dragon" Jiawei He, "Green Dragon" Lijing Huang, "Grey Dragon" Qingde Zhou, "Blue Dragon" Huilun Liu
* SupremeChef:
* ColourfulThemeNaming: Each member's street name shares the same root: one color, and the word "Dragon". Furthermore, the colour in that member's street name matches the one of their Viper.
* ThemeNaming: Alongside the ColourfulThemeNaming, each member's street name contains the word "Dragon".

'''TRUE RIDE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Perfect Score Driver" Koichi Hamada, "Giant Impact" Tahara Masaharu, "Iron Blocker" Takeaki Sakamoto, "Genius Rookie" Masanori Tsunoda, "Walter Wolf" Hiroyuki Nonaka, "Pink Lily" Kazunari Yuri, "Sunny Dragon" Ryuta Miyake, "Strike Star" Taka Kuze
Ten years before the events of the series, a group of friends passionately following the deeds of the Four Devas decided to create their own team. Together, they'd become one of Tokyo's fastes groups, only to suddenly vanish in thin air. But now that the Devas are gone, '''True Ride''' makes its return from a long hiatus, with the objective of reclaiming their place amongst the fastest teams on the Expressway.

* TenMinuteRetirement:

'''UNLIMITED'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Killing Machine" Shuhei Kitagata ☆, "Wandering MONSTER" Hiroshige Takase, "Scotch Limited Express" Yoshiyuki Tamba, Toriyumi "Yes Man Nao" Naoyuki, "Great Warlock" Shun Sonoda, Hisatani "Pit Viper Kyo" Kyoji, "Sleeping" Kei Konishi, "Asphalt's Sorrow" Yasuhiko Fujisaki (from ''3'' onwards)
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: What got Yasuhiko Fujisaki to jump ship from Rotary Revolution to Unlimited... atleast from his point of view.
* AllCaps
* MeaningfulName: Shuhei Kitakata's attitude was described as unflappable, cold, unmovable whilst part of Speed Box, with a surgical precision in driving to match. He was called "more of a machine than a man"... guess you could call him "Killing Machine"...
* StartMyOwn:
* TheStoic: Back when he was still a member of Speed Box, Shuhei Kitakata was described as completely unflappable, not even moving an eyebrow whilst racing.

'''FANATIC FUTURE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': Chiaki "Burning" Nakamura ☆, Takeru "Cool" Hosoda, Daimo "Mysterious" Matsuzawa, "Burning Warlord" Hiroshi Kuze, "Intelligent Teacher" Hirofumi Katano, "Extraordinary Man" Kazuhiro Minagawa, "Love Knuckle" Ai Kaneko

'''COMMANDER'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Senna Foot" Ginji Ōkuma ☆, "Yamato" Saburō Yura, "Two-Footed Hide" Hidetomo Katō, "Gentle Arm" Sakae Toyohashi, "Seducer" Shū Fukaya, "Ice Axe" Noboru Hirayama, "Swimmer" Hayato Sanada, "Rainbow-Colored Traveler" Hirotoshi Hayashi (from ''Zero'' onwards)

'''DOUBLE MIND'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Yellow Lightning Flash" Noriyuki Shinjo ☆, "Brown Satan" Tatsuya Oze, "Bloody Cage" Seiji Mitsui, "Red Giant" Iwao Takamine, "Brown Devil" Kazunori Konno, "Pale Angel" Isamu Shibagaki, "Grey Spirit" Mitsuhiro Shibihara
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating:
* BadBoss:
* ColourfulThemeNaming: Each member's street name contains a colour or a reference to one: ''Yellow'' Lightning Flash, ''Brown'' Stan, ''Bloody'' Cage, ''Red'' Giant, ''Brown'' Devil, ''Pale'' Angel and ''Grey'' Spirit. The team's successor in Nagoya, Another Heaven, shares the exact same theme.
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat:
* EvilMentor:
* ObviouslyEvil:
* UndyingLoyalty: Inverted.

'''ABFLUG SRT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Abf911" Masamichi Uwabo ☆, "Dandy" Jun Noguchi, "Superman" Hiroki Hanai, Teruyuki "Teru" Saji, "Forehead Flick" Shin Maruyama
The real-life tuning company
* DubNameChange:
** Masamichi Uwabo: to Louis Gilman
** Jun Noguchi: to Jon Rawnsley
** Hiroki Hanai: to Jon Venecia
** Teruyuki Saji: to Joe Barret
** Shin Maruyama: to Jim Kavanagh
* FlatCharacter

'''APS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Yokohane Heavy Fighter Jet" Kōshi Kondō ☆, "Box Riding" Masahiro Torī, "Harima Emperor" Keiji Matsuno, "Reviving Wizard" Yūsuke Nakagawa, "Rotary Flower" Sumire Hoshimiya, "Hotel Over Rev" Johnny Kejima, "Nür Wind" Franz A. Pedro, "Slip Slap" Futoshi Yamamoto
Highly skilled, incredibly competent, and blistening fast, '''APS''' were not originally a street racing team: rather, they were a group of people whose common point was the willingness to dive headfirst into anything they deemed interesting. No one's quite sure what they were up to before appearing and becoming one of the top teams of the area, but apparently it's a secret hidden in plain sight: the cat ear and pawprint on their logo contains the answer...
* DubNameChange:
** Kōshi Kondō: to "Jamz" James Louis, "Yokohane's Heavy Fighter" (''3''), "Panel Bomber" (''Import Tuner Challenge'')
** Masahiro Torī: to "Blocky Rider" Tom Myroniak
** Keiji Matsuno: to "King" Willie Yee (''Zero'')
** Yūsuke Nakagawa: to "Revived Wizard" Mike Quan, "The Revival Wizard" Ivan Titov
** Sumire Hoshimiya: to "Shyxgirl" Stacie Leong (''Zero'')
** Johnny Kejima: to "Double Booking" Ryan Nufable (''Zero''), Johnny Keshima (''3'')
** Franz A. Pedro: to "New Wind" Howard Hoshiko (''Zero''), "Nurburg Wind" Lukas Abrecht (''3'')
** Futoshi Yamamoto: to Masaru Yamamoto
* ShroudedInMyth

'''NEO LIMITED'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Lemon Flavor" Tsuguharu Katō ☆, "Lightweight Elekiter" Hōsei Kajiya, Jōya "Poet" Hitachi, Watarō "Crossed Out" Nodajima, "Troubled" Kōichi Minami, "Party Dress" Yoshirō Motogawa, "Generous Fortune" Masakichi Honda

'''SANJYUSHI'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Forbidden Privateer" Minoru Yoshida ☆, "Touge God" Teruhiko Akioka, "Hyena Black Col" Nao Yamanashi, "Crazy Bird" Masashi Koai, "Last Japanese Wolf" Hyūma Takagi, "Sedan Killer Señor" Kazuto Murata

'''BIG WAVE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': Hayato "Expert" Obana ☆, Kōji "Cool" Horiuchi, "Gotanda Emperor" Yoshitaka Watai, Taisuke "Mysterious" Sugai, "Magic Master" Mitsu Yoshimito, "Extraordinary Man" Einobu Takahashi, "Love Knuckle" Ai Kaneko, "Street Murder Gambler" Takaichi Kadomasu

'''MIRACLE DOGS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': Isamu "Shepherd" Nekozawa ☆, Shūtarō "St. Bernard" Kadoe, Makoto "Husky" Kiyota, Kōsuke "Bulldog" Suzuki, Ken'ichi "Retriever" Tamura, Mitsuhiro "Chihuahua" Katō
* ThemeNaming: Each member picked their street name after a specific breed of dog. Moreso, their street names are also consistently written in the exact same way: the dog's breed followed by the driver's surname.

'''INFINITY'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Marvelous Invincible" Shun'ichi Kazama ☆, "Love Destruction King" Shōma Kamishiro, "Fascinating Hot Glance" Yuzumi Kimitsu, "Love Hunter" Takeshi Kusanagi, "Big Dipper Meteor" Kimiyasu Haruna, "Red Moonlight" Tatsumi Fuyufuji, "Kind Hearted Assassin" Kōta Kisaragi

'''RACING FUNS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Big Deal" Yukisada Shirogane ☆, "Anger Star Mine" Shūjirō Hoshigami, "Bargain Dot Com" Fujio Kumai, "Beach Girl" Mao Natatsuka, "Square Lunch" Yoshiharu Tobata, "Miracle Goal" Yoshiharu Okunoi

'''REAL ECHO'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Steel Dinosaur" Katsumasa Mejiro ☆, "American Wolf" Naomi Nakagawa, "Without Tear" Mito Sawayoshi, "Amateur Machine" Tōichirō Kawajima, "Marvelous Cómo Está" Tsuneo Kazuno

'''HOT HEAD'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Forever Night" Shinji Fukuhara ☆, "Aimless Dash" Akira Kitabayashi, "Fifteen Nights" Keitarō Kobayashi, "Torn Asunder Heartbeat" Mamoru Mitsuike, "Solitude Without Exit" Kuniaki Hatayama, "Escape to Freedom" Hirotake Fuji

'''@-TENTION'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "4 PRIDE" Shunpei Hamanaka ☆, "JUST RHYME" Masaki Atsugi, "SMOOT HEART" Kei Oshiba, "D.H.K." Kuniya Sugawara, "DEEP LOVER" Yuki Shimizu, "ANGEL FLOW" Shōichi Kiriyama, "GOLDEN JACKAL" Norihiko Shida
* AllCaps: The team members' street names are written this way.

'''GENESIS R'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Darkness Seven" Nobuhiro Oda ☆, "Spirit Triangle" Sankichi Hashiba, "Falling Sky" Shun'ei Tokugawa, "British Energy" Katsuya Shimazu, "Urban Stripe" Kansuke Matsudaira

'''SEEKS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Fierce God" Yōta Takino ☆, "Orange Pegasus" Akirō Azumagawa, "Black Panther" Satoshi Abo, "Red Sheep" Isao Hirabayashi, "MICHELLE" Tetsuya Hara

'''M/R'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Flame Mayurin" Mayu Kuboike ☆, "Swift Attack Mori-tan" Chihiro Morinaka, "Storm Yumirin" Yumi Aibara, Erina Abekawa "The Speed", "Gale Hina" Hinano Sashima, "Super Fast Koba-chan" Tokuko Kobayashi, "Genius Shikkī" Yūko Shikishima

'''CASTLE STAGE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Golden Dolphin" Yūya Tsunemi ☆, "Little Regent" Takashi Nakagusuku, "Dora Dora Dora" Kōkichi Motooki, "High Speed Reform Without Asylum" Junji Fukagawa, "Overflowing Conscience" Shūta Hanaizumi

'''FACE TO FAITH'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Summer Time Again" Andrew Bergman ☆, "Unsinkable Giant" Michael Jean, "Super Quick Canary" Frank Wolfe, "Miso Cutlet POWER" Norman Cohen, "SHO-GUN" Alan Homard, "Silver Ball" Nicholas Wilson, "Demon Death MAN" Dave Watson

'''WILLOWS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Light Speed Stomach" Hisanori Haba ☆, "Extra Large Tune" Jun Tachita, "Oil Fresh" Maiko Tsuru, "Boost Beef" Tetsushi Ikeda, "Best Soup" Shōichi Ōmuta, "Pepper Chicken" Kunihisa Nakagusuku

'''SHAKE HIPS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Sweet Veronica" Taketo Tamukai ☆, "Caramel Boy" Kiyohiko Kigawa, "Solo Moment" Hisashi Yanase, "Original Taste" Kengo Shiomi, "Yesterday Once More" Masumi Īzuka, "Tranquil Bibimbap" Tadakuni Han, "Brand Addiction" Jun Teramura

'''TRIBUTE-J'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Atomic Heart" Masafumi Yahara ☆, "TENMUSU Prince" Tsubasa Inudō, "Tempaku Debt Collector" Kyōsuke Ayase, "Fine Castle Offside" Yūki Shirakubo, "J Mania" Mitsunori Fukawa, "J Lover Girl" Kazumi Ochiai

'''PURPLE BULLET'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Night Ruler" Masa Takahasi ☆, "Night Conjurer" Kenji Tanaka, "Night Material" Hiroto Kaneyama, "Night Puzzle" Kazuya Suzuki, "Night Coral Reef" Shun Yoshizawa, "Night Joker" Tatsuya Yabashi
* ThemeNaming: Each member's street name contains the word "Night".

'''ANOTHER HEAVEN'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Brown Satan" Tatsuya Oze ☆, "Dusk Incubus" Daisuke Haraguchi, "Ultramarine Torturer" Noboru Magoshi, "Deep Green Freshly Severed Head" Yukio Kawashita, "Red Copper Ogress" Eriko Nishi, "Red Giant" Iwao Takamine, "Bronze Ghost" Harumi Ishimoto
* HeelFaceTurn: If ''Street Supremacy'' is canon, Bronze Ghost was eventually defeated by Killing Machine of Unlimited: taking the defeat as a signal, Harumi left Another Heaven, joined Unlimited and moved to Tokyo, willing to turn a new leaf and cast away his previous reputation
* ColourfulThemeNaming: Just like their predecessor, Double Head, all members of Another Heaven have a colour in their street name: ''Brown'' Satan, ''Dusk'' Incubus, ''Ultramarine'' Torturer, ''Deep Green'' Freshly Severeed Head, ''Red Copper'' Ogress, ''Red'' Giant and ''Bronze'' Ghost.

'''FLOWER DANCERS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Blue Rose" Yoshihisa Tanouchi ☆, "Salvia Jun" Shōta Nakabayashi, "Gerbera Yumi" Kantarō Nishiwaki, "Marigold Yukiko" Ryūichi Katsube, "Sunflower Chikako" Tomohisa Sakurada, "Cyclamen Nana" Kōzō Yoshiie
* FloralThemeNaming: All members' street names are derived from flowers or other plants: Blue ''Rose'', ''Salvia'' Jun, ''Gerbera'' Yumi, ''Marigold'' Yukiko, ''Sunflower'' Chikako, ''Cyclamen'' Nana. Rose also doubles as a female given name, fitting with the ThemeNaming of "flower and female given name".
* QueerFlowers: "Blue Rose"
* GenderBlenderName: In a subversion, all members' street names are a combination of a flower and a female given name, whereas all their real given names are male.

'''GLORY DAYS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Wind Walker" Hirotaka Suzuki ☆, "Burning Heart" Shōichi Sakiyama, "City Age" Masashi Kaneko, "Dancing Lips" Mayumi Noda, "Shining Moon" Shirou Takamura, "Wild Guy" Susumu Nakagaki, "Morning Beat" Tomiaki Itō
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Suzuki, being a managing consultant, applies his same business analysis methodology to his cars to terrifying efficiency.
* BusCrash: In ''Street Supremacy'''s continuity, Glory Days were reportedly wiped out by a single, "infamous" driver between games. Shōichi Sakiyama was so furious he joined Unlimited during Killing Machine's solo expedition to Nagoya looking for revenge.
* CoolOldGuy: Hirotaka Suzuki is in his fifties, and yet he's still an incredibly talented racer.
** Generally speaking, almost all members of Glory Days are towards the older end of the scale for street racers, from their forties onwards.
* GloryDays: All members deeply love classic sports cars from past eras, particularly those from the Eighties, whilst grudgingly looking down on newer, contemporary models and deeming them inferior. Also, if it wasn't clear enough, the trope is literally the team's name.

'''DE LA SPEED'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Planet Harmony" Hokuto Izawa ☆, "Wild Bear" Issei Furugōri, "Poisonous Snake" Kensuke Takatsuki, "Air Refresh" Earo Tenkūtei, "Good Humour Diet" Mitsunaka Takigashira, "Exhausted September" Shing Wakamatsu

'''BREATH LESS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Second Generation Mistress" Satomi Higuchi ☆, "Dramatic Coaster" Hitoshi Umaba, "Rough Feeling" Takayoshi Mori, "Scream Dancer" Makoto Satō, "Bursting Gibson" Yoshifumi Hayashi, "Sorrow Turtle" Shōhei Kameyama, "Profound Knowledge Utchī" Atsushi Uchijima

'''FLAME DRAGON'''
!!!"Flame Dragon" Makoto Abe
* AnimalThemeNaming
* ColorAnimalCodename

'''D3'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "The Rook" Hiroaki Sakuraba, "The Bishop" Shin'ichiro Kanaya, "The Knight" Keita Arai
* ThemeNaming: Fitting with their chess motif, the three members' street names all derive from chess pieces: the Rook, the Bishop, and the Knight, respectively.
* PrivateDetective

'''FIRST LADY'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Provocative Bondage" Misaki Kiryu ☆, "Fascinating M Line" Yūka Yoshida, "Oriental Succubus" Aoi Tatsugawa, "Miss No Brake" Nanami Takatori, "Mirage Lady" Yukino Nagumo, "Sexy" Miki Ayase, "Brand Hunter" Asuka Kusanagi

'''NIPPON-BASHI'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Humanoid Precision" Masashi Satō ☆, "Muscle Programmer" Yasuhiro Suzuki, "Perfect Lady" Rika Takahashi, "Keyboard Technician" Reiji Tanaka, "Software Poor" Kensaku Watanabe, "Interface Revolver" Ken Itō, "Network Guardian" Daisuke Yamamoto

'''VIP PROJECT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Burning the Passion" Ryō Izutsu ☆, "Nonstop the Hero" Akinori Nomura, "Mister Elite" Mikio Terajima, "Frontier Resolution" Kyōji Kamimura, "Energy Blood" Shōta Hara, "Safety Tracker" Daiki Tendō, "Pride of Speed" Yūto Dezaki

'''BIRIKEN CLUB'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Lucky Come Come" Ryōta Yokota ☆, "Gold Loser" Tetsuyoshi Tajima, "Anti Woman" Kōji Sasagawa, "Fire Rescue" Naoya Habatani, "Mystery Maze" Hideyuki Makishima, "Bottom Floor" Katsuhiro Yasuda
* BunnyEarsLawyer
* CloudCuckooLander

'''DRIFTERS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Rokkō Confession Booth" Takumi Ikari ☆, "Yellow Tornado" Ryūya Katō, "Foehn Hot Wind" Ren Nakamoto, "Kind Hearted Thunder God" Kenta Takagi, "Foolish Bastard Soul" Daisuke Arai, "Drift First Block" Ryōta Shimura
* {{Hypocrite}}

'''TUTENKAKU'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Passion Runner" Hiroshi Ozasa ☆, "Phoenix Engineer" Kōji Fukushima, "Aqua Jumper" Ken'ichi Miyazaki, "Bonnet Artist" Yōsuke Nakatsu, "My Home Dandy" Kenji Koretsune, "Noble Chaser" Ryōhei Okamoto

Named after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ts%C5%ABtenkaku Tsutenkaku]], one of Osaka's symbols and "the pride of the city's people", '''[=TuTenKaku=]"' proudly flies the city's flag as high as they can. Lying in wait until night, they appear in a flash of bright lights and show off for the crowds, with a belief that winning is completely meaningless if they don't do so by being flashy.

'''NO LOSER'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Naniwa Unsinkable Battleship" Toshifumi Asakawa ☆, "Shivering Nuclear Warhead" Kiichi Kotegawa, "Insane Terrorist" Tomizaki Shinji, "Creeping Timebomb" Kōsaku Hamada, "Invisible Recon Plane" Akinobu Hosaka, "Swift Attack Raid Commander" Fumihiko Takanami
* ThemeNaming: To go along with the camo decals found on their Lan Evos, all members of NO LOSER have street names derived after weapons or military terms.

'''HOME RUN'''
!!!'''Team Members''': Yamata "Angry" Hoshino ☆, Tomoya "Home Steal" Ōgi, Daiki "Long Hitter" Hidaka, Kentarō "Safety" Kokubo, Akira "Stopper" Torigoe, Kazuki "Set Upper" Igarashi, Tsubasa "100 Mile" Mikoshiba, Yuki "End Run" Nashida

'''MILLENNIUM 2'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Final Revolution" Tadatomi Nakatani ☆, "Elemental Fusion" Seiichi Kaneko, "Possession Tracer" Chikaoki Ishimine, "Winning Episode" Tsutomu Nakazato, "Mission Specialist" Santarō Yano, "Traffic Slasher" Teruji Nakajima

'''MIYABI'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Meteor Storm" Ryūichi Gion ☆, "Step Fall Down" Kiyoshi Mizunuma, "Howling Cherry" Masato Chionin, "Sonic Hitman" Naoki Yoshizumi, "Walking Dream" Ayumu Nagareyama, "Air Raid" Shōta Matsukaze, "Shining Comet" Toshi Kyōyama

'''BALDY'S'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Flame Captain" Tokihisa Ikeda ☆, "Naniwa Sage" Yoshinori Terauchi, "Kind New Leaf" Norimasa Horio, "Oval Tomo" Tomohide Nishino, "White" Hiroshi Okada, "Slight Fortune" Teruaki Hosomi

'''LOW POSITION'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Antigravity Dimension" Shirou Ejima ☆, "Wedge Shaper" Yukihiko Shimasaki, "Hamster King" Tetsuya Tada, "Regretful Dynamite" Seiichi Inui, "Katamachi Trapper" Yasufumi Kajiwara, "Moron Superexpress" Yasuo Kondō

'''PERFECT WORKS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Kishiwada Crisis" Hiroaki Kamimori ☆, "Dusk Junction" Katsuyuki Seto, "Full Moon Messenger" Takao Itsuki, "Done in One Breath" Shinryū Sado, "Bad Trip" Kanji Misumi, "Bruised Warrior" Kazuomi Chiba

'''TEAM KENGO'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Uzumasa Old Nobleman" Ryūtarō Ōsato ☆, "High Speed Peach Boy" Hideo Akahashi, "Pandemonium" Naoki Katsukata, "Midnight Wolf" Shinya Nandaimon, "Highway Thousand Stone Warrior" Tōji Yakushi, "Izumi Black Lion" Yūjirō Tsubaki

'''G.R.O.'''
!!!'''Team Members''': Susumu "Furious" Naitō ☆, "Darkness Fugitive" Masayuki Yasunaga, "Naniwa's Single Kitchen Knife" Shingi Shibata, "Roaring Sono-yan" Kōji Sonoda, "Money Gewalt Yosshī" Yoshitarō Itō, "Dynamic Architecture" Katsuhiro Fumimura, "Striking Boldness" Shinji Shimada, "Always Late" Minoru Miyasaka

'''NIGHT WING'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Gold Wing" Toshirō Hikino ☆, "Silver Wing" Hiroki Yashima, "Dark Wing" Tateo Tsugihara, "Deep Crimson Wing" Takashi Baba, "Dark Green Wing" Tsutomu Nakadaira, "Pure White Wing" Testurō Kaneda
* ColourfulThemeNaming: Each member's street name contains a colour, usually matching the one of their car.

'''UNIVER-SARU'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Jurassic Era Fast Rider" Shūta Arai ☆, "Void Champion" Kazuhiko Sonoda, "Man Eating Shark" Kōichi Yamamoto, "Roaring Volcanic Crater" Hirotoshi Hiratsumu, "Mechanized Angel" Misuzu Nagano, "Deep Sea Emperor" Yasuo Ishikawa, "Future Messenger" Akinobu Sasamoto
* ThemeNaming: All named after Universal IPs? Maybe? Need to ask.
** Jurassic Era Fast Rider - Jurassic Park
** Void Champion - ?
** Man Eating Shark - Jaws
** Roaring Volcanic Crater - ?
** Mechanized Angel - ?
** Deep Sea Emperor - Godzilla, maybe?
** Future Messenger - Back To The Future or Terminator

'''SHORYU GROUP'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Rising Dragon of Sakai" Keisuke Mizushima ☆, "Imported Bodyguard" Ken'ichi Ikufuji, "Maelstrom Right General" Takehiko Watase, "Strait Left General" Shinji Nomi, "Nanki Bullet" Minoru Shiba, "Rokkō Thunderbolt Running Demon" Hirokazu Nishikawa, "Open Sea Judicial Chief" Masahiko Tsuzuki
SupportPartyMember

'''KAZE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Miraculous Divine Wind" Masahiro Uno ☆, "Crushing Air Blast" Yūichi Urasawa, "Bursting Cyclone" Kunihiko Kano, "Refreshing Balmy Breeze" Sakura Mitsukoshi, "Raging Storm" Shun'ichi Minegichi, "Blowing Gust" Kazuto Abe, "Unexpected Strong Wind" Toshiji Nonomura
* ThemeNaming: All members' street names derive from wind or wind-related phenomena. They're also dressed as [=WW2=]-era Japanese aviators.

'''HARISEN CHOP'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "West Nagahori Justice" Masayoshi Katō ☆, "Namiyoke Politics" Kuniharu Kobayashi, "Tempo General" Takemasa Nakanishi, "Ōhama Brave" Hideo Nakamura, "Sakai Victory" Katzutoshi Izu, "Tsumori True" Masami Ōkubo, "Shiomibashi Cowboy" Yūki Makimura

'''DARTS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': Noboru "Kami" Kawajiri ☆, Masami "Nothingness" Manabe, Takeaki "Heaven" Nagai, Teruyuki "Earth" Tadokoro, Shinji "Humanity" Kawasaki, Hidetaka "Wind" Kubota, Kazushi "Woods" Ōishi, Masao "Fire" Shinshiro, Hideki "Mountain" Kaneko
* ThemeNaming: Each unit has its own distinct theme, rooted in Japanese mythology and reflected in their members' street names:
** The first unit, composed of Hidetaka, Kazushi, Masao and Hideki, is themed after the four classical Japanese elements.
** The second unit, composed of Takeaki, Teruyuki and Shinji, is themed after the Shinto creation myth on how the Earth, and with it humanity's ancestors, literally fell out of the heavens. As they're fought one after the other, the player symbolically climbs through humanity and up the earth until reaching the heavens... which leads us to...
** The third unit, composed of Noboru and Masami, represents the contraposition between absoluteness through godhood and, well, nothingness.

'''CHANGING STAGE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Fantasy Phoenix" Yukihide Asakawa ☆, "Rising Bear" Naoya Tamura, "Flash Blood" Akira Okuyama, "Pink Lily" Kazunari Yuri, "Pretty Monster" Yū Momoi, "Digital Killer" Hiromichi Tōno, "Perfect Beginner" Seiichirō Okui

'''SPEED PLANET'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Jet Shaver" Masao Kamiya ☆, "Vicious Astaroth" Ryūichi Maezono, "Ranging Striker" Takeshi Sonegawa, "Genius Shikkī" Yūko Shikishima, "Tragic Red Point" Kanji Yoshimura, "Slow Starter" Tomoyoshi Okazaki, "Forever Student" Ryōhei Motoike, "Radical Clapper" Gen Jōi

'''M_O_E_'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Gothic the My Road" Kiichi Misawa ☆, "Black the Zero Fighter" Rei Ōtaki, "Logic the Professor" Motomichi Emori

'''FRESH MARKET'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Large Steer" Chūji Doi ☆, "Golden Rookie" Ryōta Umabuchi, "Lucky Flag" Noritsugu Fugazu, "Sagami Sumō Wrestler" Toyoichi Sekiguchi

'''CAT X CAT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Black Cat" Mamiko Takaya ☆, "White Cat" Arisa Nojima
* AnimalThemeNaming
* ColorAnimalCodename
* ColourfulThemeNaming: Both members' street names contain the colours of their cars. There's also some theming on the myth of white cats and black mats and Mamiko's own past as Glamorous Mami
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl

'''PHASE X'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Wild Bird" Katsuhisa Hamaike ☆, "Flying Octopus" Seiji Fukawa, "Sorrow Jupiter" Shin Meguro, "Overtaking Stray Dog" Etsuya Nakabara, "Dangerine Red" Gou Susaki, "Wrath Mars" Mamoru Meguro, "Sideburn Screw" Tatsuji Mimamigawa

'''DESIRE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Dark Night Betelgeuse" Reira Tomokawa ☆, "Wailing Asterion" Honami Fukuto, "Heretical Canopus" Jun Morihashi

'''FAMILY BUSINESS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Godfather" Shintarō Hirohata ☆, "Outside Garter" Mitsujirō Hirohata, "Greatest Papa" Shinsuke Hirohata, "Big Mom" Hisa Hirohata, "Innocent Lady" Misuzu Hirohata, "Quick Kid" Sasuke Hirohata
* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent
CynicismCatalyst
GenerationXerox
HiddenHeartOfGold
HisOwnWorstEnemy
LikeFatherUnlikeSon
NoBadassToHisValet
PapaWolf
SharedFamilyQuirks
SiblingYinYang
SupportPartyMember
TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason
WellIntentionedExtremist

'''COOL ENERGY'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Incentive Joker" Sōta Sako ☆, "Manhattan Dreamer" Yūichi Kōri, "Jet Black Trader" Teruyuki Atagawa, "Margin Zero" Tatsurō Tonosaki, "Vengeance White Knight" Shin'ya Aragaki
* WorkingThroughTheCold: Per the claims of 2Limit's Pain Train and Brand Hunter, Shin'ya is seriously ill with a worrisome physical exam and a regular outpatient at the team's hospital. He'd have much better chances of recovering if he actually stopped and rested, something his own bio lampshades, but he's so focused on revenge he just refuses to. Excellent Pleasure of 2Limit has also demanded him to stop racing, but he continues to carry on regardless.
* ThePowerOfHate:

'''TRI EDGE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Wandering Patriarch" Mikio Shibuya ☆, "Wandering Flag Bearer" Shun Tsuda, "Wandering Tactician" Yūsaku Tabuchi, "Distant Cry" Kiyoshi Ibuki, "Lonely Apparition" Akira Wakushin, "Stardust Giant Soldier" Kazuyoshi Toda

'''THE PLEIADES'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Sleeping Lion" Eiji Sugenuma ☆, "Rank 2 Man" Masaji Tezuka, "Universal Dasher" Tsugio Yamagishi, "Thunder Eagle" Daisuke Fujimura, "Road Pandemonium" Takuma Sasamoto

'''2LIMIT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Bright Red Fang" Naoya Hanemura ☆, "Excellent Pleasure" Kō Mitsugawa, "Solid Shark" Tony Sagisawa, "Pain Train" Satoru Miyama, "Brand Hunter" Yōko Sugita
* ButNotTooForeign: Solid Shark is Japanese-American, something hinted at by his Western-style name and confirmed by his bio.
* GoldDigger: Yoko Sugita, to the point it's her street name in the English translation.

'''BLOOD TEARS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Unwavering Duelist" Yasushi Ogata ☆, "Green Snatcher" Yoshio Yano, "Lust Stuntman" Mitsugu Fujikura, "Secret Face" Kanji Shimabuku, "Yearning Power Band" Ryōta Shimotsuki, "Old Roller" Takaya Asaka, "Sentimental Babe" Kiyoshi Tabata, "Mountain and Sea Southern Cross" Yoshimitsu Seki, "Metal Blaster" Shōichi Matsubayashi, "Virtuous Spirit" Katsumi Mikuriya

'''FREEDOM LIGHT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Harvest Waltz" Nobuo Nogata ☆, "Bayside Typhoon" Ryū Tsuchimori, "Thrilling Noise" Tomohiro Katsuta, "Rotary Blues" Manjirō Koba, "Comfort Babel" Masa Teruya, "Fuel Control Specialist" Akikatsu, "Lunatic Lullaby" Satoru Myōgatani

'''ROLLING GALS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Rolling Gal #1" Yuri Nakamura ☆, "Rolling Gal #2" Amane Ishikawa, "Rolling Gal #3" Naoko Andō, "Rolling Gal #4" Kazumi Ikawa, "Rolling Gal #5" Akiko Fujita

'''MOON TRIBE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Revolver Heaven" Dai Masukawa ☆, "In the Purple" Shun Ōmura, "Insomnia Crow" Tomomichi Haruyama, "Hesitation Stone Face" Eiji Shioi, "Amazing Blue" Yōichi Jin, "Empire Butterfly" Jumpei Yokomine, "New Moon Samovar" Ken Kido

'''BURNISM'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Crying Singer" Mō Kusuhara ☆, "Dusk Guitarist" Ichirō Yoshi, "Unwavering Bassist" Ken'ichi Handa, "Strange Drummer" Noboru Hino, "Self-Indulgent Dream Dwarf" Yuzuru Wakai, "Little Venus" Michiyo Hagiwara

'''THE BONE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Infernal Serpent" Tetsu Tobigawa ☆, "Dancing Demon Dog" Shōta Miyauchi, "Sinful Phoenix" Hiroshi Kashiyama, "Golden Unicorn" Kyōichi Kōson, "Silent Aligator" Ryōta Tanabe, "Red Lion" Katsuji Sodagani, "Anchor Dolphin" Tomomi Watai, "Scramble Wyvern" Jōtarō Ryū, "Velvet Scorpion" Tamiyuki Kijō
* AnimalMotifTeam
* AnimalThemeNaming: All members' street names contain a reference to a mythological animal or one relevant to Asian mythology.

'''RACING STORM'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Red Heat Haze" Takeaki Raika ☆(leader of the "serious" faction), "Tactical Oasis" Tōru Mochizuki (leader of the "relaxed" faction), "Hell's Sales Talk" Noriyuki Miyakabe, "Burning Candy" Fumitaka Ichizawa, "Decadent Sultan" Mamoru Mutsu, "Slit Motion" Kana Kanai, "Flexible Color" Tsutomu Ebikawa, "Claim Breaker" Michiko Negoro, "Bargain Dot Com" Fujio Kumai

'''STRONG FORMATION'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Reliable Center" Masafumi Ukita ☆, "Offense Lineman" Yoshihiro Hozumi, "Hot Blooded Quarterback" Motoaki Ōshima, "One Shot Match Fullback" Yoshimasa Tōgō, "Fleet Footed Wide Receiver" Takurō Tsutsumi, "Maneuverable Runningback" Masao Fujisaki, "Supreme Linebacker" Takehiro Kanzaki, "Defensive Line" Yōji Numata, "Defensive Back" Katsuyoshi Ījima, "Outstanding Middle Guard" Masaru Meguro, "Perfect Nose Guard" Eisaku Asaoka
* ThemeNaming: If it wasn't obvious enough already, the members' street names underline that all members belong to an American football team by being various position in said sport.
* SoreLoser

'''ROAD CONCERTO'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Nebula Concerto" Hiromichi Tsuzuki ☆, "Remorse Waltz" Mitsuru Kubō, "Wrath Variation" Ai Mototsuji, "Provocative March" Yūji Orimoto
* MusicalThemeNaming: All members are named after musical elements.
* VitriolicBestBuds

'''SECOND CHANCE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Grief Prophet" Hō Nishiogi ☆, "Passion Guardian" Kengo Kurita, "Twilight Saint" Yū Yatabe, "Rage Martyr" Akiyuki Shiroyama, "Ridiculing Saint" Mirei Okuda, "Despair Seeker" Toshifumi Isedani, "Puzzled Attendant" Hiromitsu Kuromaru
Rehash of the Wind Stars; Akiyuki Shiroyama was classmates with Jintei in junior high.
* MyGreatestSecondChance

'''A.S.F.'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Shinkanjo Magnate" Kenji Akibara ☆, "Spring Memory" Kōichi Hoshi, "Love and Fantasy Erotica" Masanobu Shīna, "Whimsical Labyrinth" Maya Inomura, "Risky Cat" Namie Aikawa, "Dancing Heroine" Moe Nōguchi, "Pure Hearted Downtown Boy" Motozumi Aikawa
Namie Aikawa is Platinum Prince's ex-wife; Motozumi Aikawa is her brother, and Platinum Prince's ex-in-law

'''FAR AWAY'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Maximum Eagle" Renji Kokuchō ☆, "Mysterious Hawk" Tsutomu Noborigawa, "Riverside Crow" Arnold Watts, "Melodious Condor" Keiichirō Yoshida, "Woodpecker Syndrome" Keisuke Taira, "Miracle Flamingo" Kaname Takami, "Penguin Drive" Kansuke Matsudaira, "Mocking Pigeon" Robert Brewster, "Dark Night Albatross" Kōzō Kamikita
Note: rehash of Glory Days
* AnimalMotifTeam
* AnimalThemeNaming: All members are named after birds.
* GloryDays

'''DANJI'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Savage Satsuma Hayato" Narushi Hinata ☆, "Howl Raging Active Volcano" Shingo Kimura, "Limit Genkainada" Wataru Todoroki, "Unknown Saga" Jirō Minowa, "Gale Foliage Monkey" Ryōchi Osada, "Dejima Trial" Kōji Igusa, "Nichinan Phoenix" Kaoru Kusaka, "Steam Around Hell" Mutsu Kayama
Some members are from Kyushu

'''RED POLLUTION'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Mad Stranger" Terry Sommer ☆, "Pride Killer" Colm Hornell, "Dense Forest Tequila" Anne Giacomo, "Spike Moon" Mike Akiba, "Unsinkable Giant" Michael Jean, "Driving Sir" Cain Geitist
-->''We only obey rules if they help us win.''
Rehash of Highway Outlaw; some members were unaware of the team's philosophy and behaviour, and are unsure of what to do now

'''OBORO'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Stealthy Nirvana" Shōma Suzuki ☆, "Heinous Carnage" Tatsumi Satō, "Biding Secret Maneuver" Toshifumi Tanaka

'''SECRET CODE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Blue Flame Roar" Matthew Streiger ☆, "Crimson Cloud Gentleman" Mark Hudson, "Green Rock Chameleon" Terry Chan, "Purple Sea Noblewoman" Maggie Rose
* ColourfulThemeNaming:

'''BE LEGEND'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Sonic Napoleon" Kaioka Yugi ☆, "Light Speed Goemon" Katsuya Ogi, "Transient Kōmei" Yūta Moriguchi, "Erratic Jeanne d'Arc" Chinatsu Moriyama, "Shiodome Genghis Khan" Shunsuke Kitami, "Shinkanjō Ryōma" Daigo Kaneyama, "Weekend Marko Polo" Naoki Fujimaki, "Blooming Disarray Columbus" Yūsuke Tachiki, "Rampant Newton" Yasuhisa Etajima
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: They're all named after legendary figures from history whose achievements turned into myths.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness

For tropes regarding Chinatsu Moriyama, formerly Exhaust Eve, see here.
For tropes regarding the former Sitar Kaneyama, Golden Gale, Shadow Rebel, Hard Riff, Blue Pressure, Queen's Knight and Purple Meteor, see here.

'''JUICY HEAVEN'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Seduction Amethyst" Aina Mōri ☆, "Beautiful Moon Stone" Sachiko Mōri, "Passion Topaz" Mirai Nishiyama, "Fascinating Aquamarine" Yasuko Mutō

'''AQUARIUM'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Reminiscense Hippokrates" Motokazu Hanemura ☆, "Shocking Express" Masa Nomoto, "Innocent Rouge" Maiko Fukiishi, "Fanaticism Tripper" Tetsuo Kumada, "Heart of Pop" Atsushi Tobata, "Endless New Wave" Masahiro Sai, "Forbidden Triple Axle" Natsuki Motoi, "Bubbly King" Tomonori Midorigawa

'''NAYUTA'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Ultimate Core" Noboru Nishizawa ☆, "Miracle Trickster" Yūta Suemori, "Shot Down Meister" Yoshinori Ozaki, "Step Up Winner" Shimpei Kazama, "Slip Slap" Futoshi Yamamoto, "Lucky Gentleman" Yukio Itō, "Smiley Grappler" Takamasa Suzuki, "Over Defense" Yūki Mizumoto, "Hard Reworker" Naohiro Okamoto

'''ASIAN AGES'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Black Dragon" Yonghui Wang ☆, "Light Tiger" Ho-joon Son, "Dark Tiger" Cheon-on Kim, "Yellow Dragon" Xingchen Li, "Elephant Emperor" Salman Kapoor, "Wind Tiger" Min-yong Kim, "Peach Dragon" Lihua Zang

* AnimalMotifTeam
* BenevolentBoss
* ColorAnimalCodename
* HeroAntagonist
* NumberTwo
* OpposeWhatYouSuffered
* TheSmurfettePrinciple

'''URBAN STARS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Immovable Battle Axe" Hiroki Takigawa ☆, "Burning Up Long Spear" Tōru Aikawa, "Transforming Sickle and Chain" Tatsunori Mizushima, "Manly Spirit Iron Hammer" Motohira Tange, "Invisible Shield" Mitsunori Ubagawa, "Spiral Double Edged Sword" Norimasa Ken, "Whispering Bow" Ken'ichirō Mukaihara, "Unfinished Longsword" Yūga Yanai, "Deceit Rapier" Sōichi Niki, "Black Short Sword" Yamafuji Kai

'''HAKONE STALKERS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Manjū Gripper" Toshiya Matsuda ☆, "Ashinoko Slider" Shigeru Mimatsu (until ''Chain Reaction''), "Drift Hickey" Kō Ichikawa

'''ROMANCE JETTERS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "FR Faithful #1" Mansaku Godai ☆, "EM Mania" Takuya Komoro

'''SKYLINER R'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Rocket Dash" Kōsaku Kida ☆, "Jet Dash" Hiromichi Tetsuda

'''TYPE-M'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Anti R Fourth" Hiroharu Yugawara ☆, "Anti R Third" Yoshiyuki Komada, "Anti R Second" Takayuki Komada, "Anti R First" Tetsuharu Yugawara

'''2BAD'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Surf Line 2nd" Taizō Yamada ☆, "Surf Line 1st" Teruyoshi Higashino

'''h・dd'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Hakone Emperor" Chiharu Torano ☆, "Miracle Learning" Yōichi Sakashita, "Third Keihin Shadow" Genta Kajioka

'''SPIRAL SLIPERS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "True Braces" Hifuzō Kinki ☆, "Groove Nine" Nobuhiko Kawashima, "Rice Ball Favoritism Hut 1" Tateo Shirogane, "Pleiades Faithful #2" Ryōichi Kanzaki (until ''Chain Reaction'')

'''GIRIGIRI GALS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Deep Crimson Tail Slide" Yuki Takeuchi ☆, "Deep Crimson Gullwing" Shōko Nishiyama, "Deep Crimson Night Ripper" Kei Minezaki, "Deep Crimson Curtain" Akemi Narusawa

'''AVANT-GARDE CLUB'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Haruna Guardian #2" Masaaki Ōtani ☆, "Roaring Furniture Dealer" Kazu Yamada, "Gymkhana 6 Months Straight" Hiroshi Satō, "The Pinball" Takashi Watanabe, "Haruna Gripper" Yūji Saitō

'''HARUNA HILLCLIMB CLUB'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Destruction" Daiten Okazaki ☆, "Perish" Yukio Hiramatsu, "Intensity" Saburō Kariya

'''AUTO ARTIST'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Drift Styler" Takafumi Komaki ☆, "Native Haruna" Eiji Sasayama

'''TEAM SPORTIVA'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Story Conjurer" Atsushi Yamaguchi ☆, "[=OstoAndell=]" Hideji Nishimura

'''HARUNA STARLIGHTS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Must FR" Kōji Kamiikedai ☆, "Rev SR" Ken Yushima, "False 86" Kazuya Takenouchi

'''BUDDHA WAVE ENTERTAINMENT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Sauerkraut" Shin Kumagaya ☆, "German Potato" Jun Nakagawa, "Vittles" Kōhei Ueno

'''SHUTOKOU FIRST UNIT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "T Cross" Shigeo Oyama ☆, "Pulsar Planets" Yūji Kitajima, "Hazardous Real Estate Agent" Natsuko Takahashi, "Greed Death Metal" Ryūichi Yoshinaga

For tropes regarding Ryūichi Yoshinaga in ''Chain Reaction", see the True Shutokou First Unit's folder.

'''TRUE SHUTOKOU FIRST UNIT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Great Greed Death Metal" Ryūichi Yoshinaga ☆ (in ''Chain Reaction''), "Fake Akira" Hiroaki Shima ☆ (regular member until ''Touge Legends''), "YM Spy R" Sachihiko Sasaki (''Chain Reaction'' only), "Club Koishikawa" Keita Noto, Toshiyuki "Napoleon" Miyazawa (''Touge Legends'' only)

For tropes regarding Ryūichi Yoshinaga and Sachihiko Sasaki in ''Touge Legends'', see the True Shutokou Second Unit's folder.

'''TRUE SHUTOKOU SECOND UNIT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Great Greed Death Metal" Ryūichi Yoshinaga ☆, "YMD Spy" Sachihiko Sasaki, Tsukasa " Athlete" Sakurai

'''GROOVE LIGHTS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': Shunsuke Nakamura "FX" ☆, "26 Hour Red Eye" Shingo Asami, Ken "Starletter" Sugano

'''HONDA CLUB'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Mid Explosion Style" Shinji Ikijima ☆, "Cabrio Style" Kōji Ōtawara

'''HEARTS OF MEN'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "R Pedigree" Tōru Shīna ☆, "GT Pedigree" Kenzō Yamada, "RB Pedigree" Hiroki Tadami

'''HAIL MARY'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Must Boxer 4" Kazushi Tomita ☆, "Road Conjurer" Angela

'''ALL 4 LOVE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Chūzenji Water Depth" Tetsu Toyooka ☆, "Maple Slash" Shinkichi Okamoto, "Irohazaka Wild Monkey" Sane Okuda (''Drift'' only)

'''EMPEROR'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Misfire" Kyōji Sudō ☆, "Asphalt's Sorrow" Yasuhiko Fujisaki, "Pattern 2" Seiji Iwaki

'''GOD'S FAVORITE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Cosworth Master" Keiji Ōyama ☆, "Vintage Style" Kaneharu Kojima

'''3 MEN ON WAX'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Kaidō Wolf" Hajime Omigawa ☆, "S Legend" Kazuyasu Inō, "Obsessed White Panther" Takuya Utsumi
For tropes regarding Obsessed White Panther as a Wanderer, see here.

'''EXHIBIT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Metal" Hoichi ☆, "SR Restoration Forces" Kenta Kurita
* NoFullNameGiven

'''POWER IN NUMBERS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': Yukio "GT" Yushima ☆, "ATTESA" Hanada
* NoFullNameGiven

'''TRAIN-TEE5:7'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Giga Heavy Champ" Masakazu Jōjima ☆, "Heavy Mammoth" Toshiki Sawada

'''TOUGE NUTS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "VTEC Faction Party Member 4" Hitoshi Hisakawa ☆, "VTEC Faction Party Member 3" Hirota Chun

'''MZ BIG CAB'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Astral Plane" Shin Suzuki ☆, Hideki "Beard" Maeda, "Corner Stranger" Shun'ichi Hoshino, "Discovery GTR" Shigeki Nabeshima

'''DIRTY SOUTH'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Grief SIX STAR" Kenjirō Okano ☆, "Boxer Revo" Kōji Eguchi

'''JAIL EMPEROR'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Black Dragon" Keiichi Fujita ☆, "White Dragon" Makoto Iwamoto, "Blue Dragon" Shigeru Takata

'''THE PRESIDENT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Top of 4WD" Kyōta Suga ☆, "King of Works" Seiichi Kanagi

'''SIXTY SECONDS'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Jewel Child" Kanako Kikuchi ☆ (''Drift'' only), "Wangan Misfortune" Naoto Nakagawa ☆ (regular member until ''Chain Reaction''), "I Love March" Naoto Kikuchi, "MJ" Ōtomi Karasawa, "Bloody Saturn" Tomoaki Nakamura

'''PRIDE RACING'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Mr. No Fear" Iwao Takahashi ☆, "Tawarasan Devil" Kazuhiro Hayashida, "Kumamoto Drift Soul" Jun Matsushita, "Uto Orange Unit" Kunio Yamada

'''COLOR ME BAD'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Rice Ball Favoritism Hut 2" Sane Kumagawa ☆, "FR Faithful #4" Masao Okajima

'''HOT POTATO'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Final Version" Tomoaki Tōno ☆, "Bullet Sexy Queen" atsuko
* NoFullNameGiven

'''F.F.B.'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Thirteen Night Play Squad" Masatoshi Toda ☆, "Naniwa Style" Sōichi Okada

'''WEST SIDE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Spit Shine" Toshizō Hirano ☆, "Flowerbed" Katsumi Kamata

'''RISE ASHANTI'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Night Rise" Ryōsuke Obara ☆, "Night Slash" Takuya Kasuya (''Chain Reaction'' only), "Night Pressure" Hidenori Hirano, "Night Groove" Yūji Nonaka

'''NISSAN FR STYLE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Fudō Ōtaki FR Style" Makoto Furukawa ☆, "Konuma FR Style" Hidemitsu Kosaka, "Ōnuma FR Style" Shinya Hachimaki

'''AKAGI BLUE SIGN'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Dr. Clever" Ryūichi Hashimoto ☆, "Mischievous Fool" Ryūji Hashimoto

'''ULTIMATE SEMINAR'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "King Foot" Kōjirō Furadate ☆, "King Shift" Teruo Sannomiya, "King Steer" Mutsumu Sakai

'''LA VERNE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Shiga Deputy" Tsunemi Gōda ☆, "Shirane Wonder" Ryūzō Komatsu

'''EXTRA LARGE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Future Shock" Yoshihide Torayuki ☆, "Sun Valley Rush" Kōji Morino, "Kakuda★Every Day" Hiroyuki Kakuda

'''STREET DREAMES'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Dope Color" Fumio Sengoku ☆, "De La Nāni" Kōichi Shīno, "Blood Eye" Noriyuki Takane

'''BLACK EYED PEACE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Double AI" Yūichi Araki ☆, "Storm Flash" Toshiyuki Ishida, "Ever Drift" Ryōsuke Ishitsubo

'''BLUE AVALANCHE'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Zaō Wind" Yūji Umezo ☆, "Rusty Forest" Yukio Yagami, "Beyond the Whiteout" Yūki Urano

'''SNOW INSPECTOR'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Blue and Yellow 3" Shōhei Miyazaki ☆, "Blue and Yellow 2" Hiromitsu Komatsu, "Blue and Yellow 1" Chūji Katō

'''BREAK REFORM'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Foot Beat" Tatsuya Murakawa ☆, "Moon Splash" Hiroaki Satō, "Drift Slayer" Itsuo Katsuoka

'''TOO CRAZY SKILL'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Hibushi Jizō's Wrath" Takeo Mizohata ☆, "Asphalt's Sorrow" Yasuhiko Fujisaki (''Chain Reaction'' only), "Lan Evo Doctrine" Shin Wakisaka, "Laga China" Mitsuo Kubota

'''SPEED ASHER'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Club Bastard" Hideyoshi Kojima ☆, "Dabada Fire Rain" Kazushi Kisaragi, Tadaaki "Terror" Itō

'''REVIVAL OF SODOM'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Haunted Shore" Arimasa Koshigaya ☆, "Winter Tornado" Hasumi Sugito, "Dark Nightmare" Sōichi Ōno

'''STREET SNAP'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Vorpal Weapon" Masa Hanayama ☆, "Maple Red" Hitoshi Komatsuzaki

'''WITH RASPBERRY'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Setouchi Queens" Yuki Kituka ☆, "Go Go Norosan" Kaoru Onoyama

'''ADULT NIGHT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Undefeated Myth R" Takeo Nakamura ☆, "FR Killing" Kengo Shōbuzawa

'''LOVE BOAT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Full Throttle C121" Masayo Saitō ☆, "Miniskirt Checker" Sara Seino

'''BAY RACING'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Gale Moment" Shōta Aota ☆, "King Warrior" Kazuyoshi Fujī, "Rumor Princess" Yūka Susukino

'''HEAVY NATION'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Kirigamine Venus" Yukie Tanaka ☆, "Crystal Wonder" Emiri Yamamoto, "Shall We Drift" Otoha Chino

'''FRESHNESS AIR'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Yakuōin Keyman" Tokuya Murata ☆, "Gyōki Badhisatva Iron Hammer" Yūsuke Shinohara, "Takaosan Braggart" Shiho San'ya

'''QUARTER BANK'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Kurobe Thinktank" Takanori Fukuroda ☆, "Tateyama [=DH1=]" Hideaki Takita, "Murodō Wail" Shunkō Ōsumi

'''TEAM WR'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "[=McCrash=]" Kai Kurai ☆, "Scuderia Spirit" Yutaka Terada, "El Matador" Yasuo Manabe

'''PLEIADES SPIRIT'''
!!!'''Team Members''': "Team Steward" Seiichi Tsuda ☆, "In Cut Demon" Kaoru Akiyoshi, "Tail Out Dash" Hiroyasu Kagoshi

'''BOSSES'''
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'''PLATINUM PRINCE'''
!!!'''Car''': Mazda RX-7 [=FD3S=]
* TheAloner
* ArchEnemy: Considers Snake Eyes as his
* CynicismCatalysm: Oh, boy. His divorce, which was caused by Rotary Revolution's dissolution, which was caused by their defeat at the hands of Snake Eyes, which was arguably caused by Toshitsugu's death...
* HeroAntagonist
* HeWhoFightsMonsters
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Literally has nothing left in life other than revenge on Snake Eyes, which is what drives him forwards.
* LastOfHisKind: Last remaining member of Rotary Revolution
* NonIdleRich: In contrast to his brother Toshitsugu, Toshihiko is a lot more involved with running his family's Zaibatsu and Rotary Revolution, taking them as serious ordeals. He also takes up the fight to Snake Eyes directly.
* SiblingYinYang
'''SILENCE CASSIOPEIA'''
!!!'''Car''': Nissan Fairlady [=Z33=]

* ChromaticArrangement: The green to DBS' blue and Dawn Garnet's red
* DashinglyDapperDerby
'''DEEP BLUE SNIPER'''

* ChromaticArrangement: The blue to Dawn Garnet's red and Cassiopeia's green
'''DAWN GARNET'''

* ChromaticArrangement: The red to Cassiopeia's green and DBS' blue
'''SKULL BULLET'''
!!!'''Car''': Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X
* SixtiesHair
* ClimaxBoss: Of the midway point of the game: defeating him is what gets the player on the PHANTOM 9's radar, opens up the entirety of the map, and further gets the story going.
* CultureEqualsCostume
* GoodAllAlong: Ultimately, he came to Tokyo chasing after Snake Eyes, wanting to put a stop to him personally.
* NonIdleRich
'''CRIMSON BOY'''
!!!'''Car''': Nissan Fairlady [=Z33=]
* ChromaticArrangement: The red to Golden Wisdom's green and OIM's blue

* * SoProudOfYou: Will express pride in the player for having defeated Snake Eyes, as well as pride in having gotten a chance to face them.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Arguably, the nicest of the PHANTOM NINE
'''GOLDEN WISDOM'''
!!!'''Car''': Nissan Fairlady [=Z32=]
* ChromaticArrangement: The green to OIM's blue and Crimson Boy's red
* * NiceMeanAndInBetween
* {{Tsundere}}: Will congratulate and thank the player for beating Snake Eyes, only to verbally backpedal and tell them to not take it as a compliment or think of it as him saying they're any good.
'''OLD IRON MAN'''
!!!'''Car''': Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R V-Spec II
* ChromaticArrangement: The blue to Crimson Boy's red and Golden Wisdom's green
* NiceMeanAndInBetween
* SunglassesAtNight
'''DARK GOBLIN'''
!!!'''Car''': Subaru Impreza GDB WRX [=STi=] Spec C
'''SANDSTORM EMPEROR'''
!!!'''Car''': Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX [=CT9A=]
* DumbMuscle
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvilWearsBlack: All black suit, although hard to tell due to the silhouettes being in black-and-orange
* NiceMeanAndInBetween
* SinisterShades
* SunglassesAtNight
'''CRAZY MONKEY'''
!!!'''Car''': Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R V-Spec II
* AffablyEvil
* MrExposition
* NiceMeanAndInBetween