All vehicles are licensed models from the Japanese manufacturers Nissan, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Mazda and Subaru.
He was driving on the Wangan on board a Nissan Fairlady Z (Z31) with Ma when he was easily defeated by the "Blackbird" Porsche.
He then found the scrapped body of a blue tuned Fairlady Z (S30) known as the "Devil Z" in which he bought and restored to a good condition.
A surgeon by day and a racer by night, this man drives a black RUF (tuned Porsche) dubbed as the "Blackbird", he was the one racing with the original owner of the Devil Z when it crashed.
A close friend of Eriko, he assumes the role of taking care of her in place of her dead brother.
A TV personality and magazine model, she does this hectic job and decides to run her GT-R on the Wangan nightly.
One night, she encountered the Devil Z and the Blackbird having a race and decided to join in, but her car spun out and crashed.
A hardworking man in the Green Auto Shop who often races on the Wangan with his friend Harada until one day, the two encountered Reina's GT-R which makes Hiramoto decide to get his own car.
Hiramoto's friend also works in the Green Auto Shop who helped him tune his R32 to race with the Devil Z and the Blackbird on the Wangan.
A devoted student of street racing, he spends hours just analyzing his vast storehouse of data and coming up with strategies.
He's one of the very few drivers who managed to get a clean one-on-one victory over Tatsuya Shima but, when facing Akio, the engine overheated and blew.
The sister of the Devil Z's original owner (who shares the same name as the Akio Asakura that is currently driving it) and Tatsuya's love interest.
These special cars featuring custom paintjobs and stickers are unlocked once the Survival Mode's Monster Class is completed.
Cosmetic tuning is limited to bonnet, muffler and rear spoiler change (preset paintjob and stickers are available on some bonus vehicles though).
A Full HD promotion video was released on the Japanese and South-East Asian PlayStation Store on June 22, 2007.