okay I am confused.
What is the approximate date of this series?
I think we can determine that since Godfoot is driving a R34 nur(2002). If the R34 is new or could be less than 6 months old, what year would the initial D world fall in to?
The show started in late 90's right? so they didn't know the existence of R34 yet. And all the drivers have cars on that era. Like Ryosuke with the FC which is no later than 1990, Sudoh with Evo III which is I don't know what year, is it '95 maybe.
A good explanation would be that since they are amateur drivers, none of them have the money to buy a new car and use it in street racing. Godfoot could afford it since he's in his 40's.
So I would say that Initial D fall around 2002-2003.
If that is true, then the 86 would be close to 20 years old if older.
And a 20 year old car driven everyday would have about 240,000 miles if not more (it could even be close to 300,000 miles)
What year do you think Initial D falls under?
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). That would be a big contradiction, then Kyonpalm points out it doesn't have to be exactly ten years. Here in the Philippines we don't exactly know the dates when these cars come out of the market but we base the age of the car from its registration date. That info can be seen on the cars license plate. I don't how they do it in Japan, since unregistered vehicles are illegal in the street and since here we have to re-register the vehicles in a yearly period you can see how old is the vehicle by looking at the number of stickers and/or the oldest registration sticker found at the vehicles license plate. Although this method might be as accurate as needed you can always base on its written registration on that country's vehicle registration office.
) We can conclude that Redcomet and Perry can be true at the same time if the 86 has 10 stickers on its license plate or the date of its first registration falls down to 1991 (that is again if they have the same system in Japan 
