Tokyo Drift Car of the Day

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift has finally hit theaters, and we're pretty sure that most of you have some sort of extreme opinion of the film. Love it or hate it, we're sure that all of you cringed every time one of the feature cars got destroyed. No car made it through the movie unscathed: the Viper was totaled, the Monte Carlo was shredded to bits, the VeilSide RX-7 was blown to pieces and DK's 350Z fell off a cliff. Though the vehicle of a minor character, the gold 350Z you see here also met an unfortunate demise; the car you see here was destroyed in a head on crash incurred while racing through the streets of downtown Los Angeles... uh... we mean downtown Tokyo.

The Universal people call this gold Z the "tea hair" 350Z. For those not in the know, "tea hair" (or chappatsu as it's called in Japanese) is slang for the lightened/reddish-brown hair that many young Japanese have. We can go on about how dyed hair is strictly forbidden in Japanese schools and that this chappatsu hair is a way around that rule, but we won't. What we will comment on is the fact that the driver of this tea hair Z is blonder than Jessica Simpson. Not only that, the driver of this Z is also supposed to be in high school, but he looks older than we do -- and we're nearing 30!

Creepy old student or not, at least this "tea hair" guy has a decently cool 350Z. It doesn't have a whole lot of mechanical upgrades -- heck, it doesn't have any mechanical upgrades; the modifications to this Z are all cosmetic. Since this Z is just a movie car, we won't knock it for "just" having cosmetic upgrades. Besides, the upgrades this car did receive are nothing less than JDM-tight.

The "big" upgrade to this car is the Top Secret G-Force widebody kit. Don't worry, we won't make any puns about the name, but yes, "Top Secret" is the name of the aero kit manufacturer. Anyway, the kit on this car is dubbed the "long nose" kit, as it extends the Z's front end by quite a bit. The nose isn't the only part of the car that is bigger; this Top Secret kit bumps the fenders out by 2 inches on each side. Not wanting to be left out of the plus-sizing fun, the rear bumper gets knocked out a couple of inches as well.

This G-Force kit is accented by a Top Secret FRP hood and a Top Secret carbon fiber wing. We were going to try to tie in the movie car's gold color with the "official" gold color of Top Secret's tuning cars, but we can't think of a clever way of doing so. It's Monday, our brains aren't working... Anyway, the two-tone gold color on this Fast and Furious car is accented by some tribal-style gold graphics that add some "flash" for those times this car passes by the movie cameras.

Speaking of "flash", one can't have a gold movie car sitting on stock rims, so the Nissan-equipped rollers were ditched in favor of some fat-lipped bronze Volk GT-Cs. Small rims have no place on a movie car, so the Volks on this tea-hair Z are sized 18x9-inches in the front and 18x10-inches in the back. Of course, these Volks are wrapped in Toyo's T1R Proxes tires, sized 255/35ZR18 in the front and 275/35 ZR18 'round the back.

Though it isn't seen much in the movie, this gold Z has a pretty bitchin' interior. The stock seats were tossed out and some color-matched Recaro fixed-back buckets were put in their place. Our press release from Universal says that this car has some Takata harnesses, but we sure don't see any racing harnesses in this car. That said, Takata makes the stock seatbelts for many Japanese vehicles, so perhaps the stock belts in this Z were made by everyone's favorite JDM belt maker.

Yeah, we know there's a NOS bottle sitting in the back package tray of this Z, but we doubt it's even hooked up. We're guessing it's just there for show... but as it's in the pictures we have here, we figured we should at least mention it. So... uh... there's the blue NOS bottle. Neat.

Though lacking in mechanical and chassis upgrades, we still think this 350Z is pretty cool. We're sure that a lot of you out there in readerland think it's cool, too. We're all about delivering coolness, so we've got tons of shots of this car waiting for you on our Media Page. Hurry up and get clicking!

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