It's funny that the original show was, like, extremely stupid, and filled with lots of gratuitous English, and then the dub almost intentionally made it *stupider* Go Mifune is a silly but plausible name for a person to have, and they just named him Speed Racer
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What does the conspicuous Roman letter G on all his clothes mean now? Who cares Trixie's original name was Michi Shimura (after Toshiro Mifune's frequent co-star Takashi Shimura), so she also prominently has an M on her clothing, which is now also meaningless
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My favorite is the Masked Racer (Fukumen Resa) becoming "Racer X" Yes, he has an X on his mask, fine But they ALSO made his original name "Rex Racer" (from Ken'ichi Mifune) IT'S THE SAME NAME
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"Racer X is really Speed Racer's long-lost older brother Rex Racer" OF COURSE HE IS HE JUST MOVED THE SYLLABLES AROUND They had to have done that on purpose, especially since the Narrator reminds us of this EVERY TIME WE SEE HIM
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(Fun fact, "Mach 5" is a significant number in and of itself, as the demarcation between what aircraft engineers call "supersonic" vs. "hypersonic" speed Originally it seems like the Mach 5 is just its name, rather than there having been a Mach 3 or Mach 4)
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(This was, of course, changed for the 2008 movie, where the creation of a Mach 6 is a big deal I figure it's like the version numbers on Windows Anyway when I was a kid I thought this meant the car could literally go at Mach 5, which is totally impossible)
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The rl land-speed record was set by the ThrustSSC in 1997 at 763 mph, which is just barely over Mach 1 depending on how you count Fun fact, the "Fastest Car on Earth" on Speed Racer (the GRX) has a speedometer that tops out at 400 kph (250 mph)
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I mean, maybe the car goes faster than the top speed on the speedometer, but then why even have it But they talk about the GRX going "at the speed of sound" like it's a big deal, and he needs the special V-Gas drug to keep the G-forces from killing him
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When the Wachowskis did Speed Racer 2008, on the other hand, and the associated video game, they specified that all the cars have to be traveling at ~400 mph most of the time just to stay on the tracks (they designed them with roller-coaster-style vertical loops etc)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Are they relying purely on centrifugal force for the loops, or is there also aerodynamic downforce?
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I think they mention some stuff in the technobabble DVD extra that implies the latter
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