Keiichi Tsuchiya’s Pluspy Touge video

Back in the mid 80s, Keiichi Tsuchiya was a rising star in motor racing. He quickly became infamous for his drifting style passes. By popular demand from various car magazines and tuning garages, Tsuchiya agreed to produce a video showing his drifting skills on his home course: the Usui touge. Pluspy, a tuning company, officially “produced” the video and sold it in their shop or by mail order. This is why the video is often referred to as the Pluspy video.

In this video Keiichi Tsuchiya drifts the Usui touge in his own zenki Toyota Corolla Levin AE86. Judging from the looks of the Levin the model is a GT-V Twin Cam 16 with a few modifications.

This video was simply called Touge (峠) inspired many young drivers to get into drifting and was basically the birth of the drift scene in Japan.

Shortly after the first video, Pluspy also released a second video called Touge Part 2 (峠 Part 2) where Tsuchiya would drift a three-door kouki Sprinter Trueno.

Illegal touge drifting

By this time, the Japanese Automotive Federarion (JAF) noticed the videos. As Tsuchiya was a professional racing driver, the JAF threatened to suspend Tsuchiya’s license under an “illegal street racing” violation. Automotive journalist Dajiro Inada intervened, offered Tsuchiya a job as a journalist whilst he tried to smooth things out with the JAF. In the end the JAF never suspended Tsuchiya’s license. However, since then, he always discouraged street racing, as seen in about every Shuto Trials (Shuto Kōsoku Toraiaru / 首都高速トライアル) movie.

Direct link to video: Keiichi Tsuchiya – Pluspy (Full)