AKIRA NAKAI RWB GR86 "ROUGH WORLD"

Rough World before the Rough World.

I think this is great time to go back when the Rough World was truly the Rough World.

The Nakai-san, well-known with his legendary Porsche builds, recently provoking the so called ‘anti-RWBer’s, started his career as a AE86 drift crew leader of the “Rough World”. The Rough World back then was a old school drift crew usually shown in Initial D stuffs.

All of the crew members had their own AE86s, with big ‘ROUGH WORLD’ windshield stickers on it, they gained their reputation and respect while dominating the touge of Mt. Tsukuba. They really didn’t care about the specs or sophisticated upgrades done to their car, all that they mattered was style and technique.

The modern RWB started here. The RWB has their own rough style. Even Nakai himself told that the exact specs aren’t even important. All that matter is that he just put the wheels on, and then the overfenders, and trim it until it looks good. That’s the Rough Style.

I’m not going to blame or defend two parties: Lovers and Haters. Nakai-san isn’t a good mechanic/engineer for sure. But one thing is for sure: only RWB can do the RWB style, and I love that.