Mach Five was designed by Mitsuki Nakamura, who was the art director of Tatsunoko Production, which produced the 1967 TV anime series.

[4] Mach Five's design remained timeless and modern half a century after its birth, and passed muster for the Wachowskis' 2008 live-action film adaptation with few changes 40 years later.

[b] The car has seven special functions, each of which is controlled by a button on the steering wheel assigned to each initial from A to G.[4][5] The New Adventures of Speed Racer is a remake series produced in the United States in 1993, and has not been released in Japan.

[7] Speed Racer: The Next Generation was produced in the United States in 2008 as a sequel that takes place about 40 years after the events in the original anime.

The Mach Five appears in the live-action film adaptation Speed Racer, directed by the Wachowski siblings, produced by Joel Silver, and released by Warner Bros.

[8][9] Mach Five was almost identical in design to the original anime and was used in the film's main races with an actual vehicle.

However, the car was rarely driven on real roads, instead it was hung on a crane and the effects were generated by computer graphics.

In 1997, a replica of the Mach Five, which was based on Nissan's entry-level race car, the Saurus, modified and covered with an FRP body, was produced to promote the Japanese anime remake.

It was produced in connection with a project by Japanese chocolate maker Tyrol Choco, in which Mach Five miniature cars were given away through a lottery.