Toyota Supra vs Nissan 350Z — Chaos in Shibuya and Midnight Touge on Mount Haruna
The Japanese chapter of the GRID career continues with another mix of narrow street circuits and dangerous mountain roads.
This time the episode begins in Shibuya, where the Falken Super Street championship turns the city center into a closed night circuit filled with concrete walls, tight corners and drivers who clearly have no intention of finishing the race with their cars intact.
The weapon of choice is Toyota Supra — fast enough to compete with the pack, but still wild enough to punish every careless input.
And the first race proves exactly that.
Shibuya Street X — Where Body Panels Are Optional
Street X races in Shibuya rarely stay clean for long.
In the second round situation quickly escalates when a collision with Yoichi Imamura’s Nissan 350Z ends with his car losing an entire door. For a brief moment the race camera reveals the twisted interior of the car before the replay slows everything down and lets the crash play out in detail.
Next race pushes the chaos even further.
At one point the Supra manages to fight its way into first place, ignoring every warning sign that the move is too aggressive. The result is predictable: a touch with teammate Yori Canada spins both cars out and sends the Supra all the way back to seventh place.
But GRID’s street races are rarely decided until the final seconds.
With one lap left, the car somehow climbs back through the field and crosses the line in second place, turning what looked like a disaster into a respectable result.
Midnight Touge — Mount Haruna
We are moving to Mount Haruna for the NOS Midnight Touge event — narrow mountain roads, night driving and just enough traffic to make every mistake expensive. Here the focus shifts from aggressive contact racing to something more delicate: throttle control on uphill corners. On these slopes, lifting off the throttle at the wrong moment can turn a smooth corner into a sudden sideways jump toward the guardrail. And unfortunately, that lesson is learned the hard way.
Skyline like a Final Boss
The final race introduces the most dangerous opponent of the episode — Ken Ezura driving a Skyline GT-R Z-Tune.
With 500 horsepower and Nissan’s ATTESA all-wheel drive system, the GT-R behaves like it’s glued to the road. Even small mistakes are enough for it to close the gap instantly.
At one point Ezura solves the problem in the most direct way possible: a solid hit from behind sends the Supra flying off the road and into the rocks. One can expect that behavior from a human, not from an in-game AI.
Flashback.
Another crash occures instantly — this time spectacular enough to leave the car flipping through the air and landing on the mountain road completely destroyed.
Flashback again.
Only on the final restart does the race finally turn in the Supra’s favor.
A Messy Victory
The finish line eventually arrives, but it’s hard to call the result a clean victory. The car survives multiple crashes, several restarts, and a final round of revenge against the Skyline before crossing the line first. Not exactly graceful racing, but on a narrow mountain road in the middle of the night, survival is sometimes the only thing that matters.
Watch the Full Episode
Race Driver GRID (2008) — Part 11 - Toyota Supra vs Nissan 350Z
https://youtu.be/TEdcet-cqYE