Mach Barrows

**Mach Barrows** is one of the protagonists of Need For Speed: Hot Import Nights and the main character in Career Mode: Mach Campaign which is a different story mixed with Need For Speed: Carbon than Ruka Campaign since Ruka Cooper doesn't appear in this campaign.

## History (Mach Campaign)

### Early life

Mach has been racing since he was very young and he wishes to become a great racer to win the world racing championships.

### Mach Campaign

The Mach Campaign story begins with him in his last year of Palmont city high school, something that often takes a back seat to his enjoyment of racing. He search for the fastest car that saw from the past called the BMW car. The iconic car M3 GTR, he is a legend behind the wheel and the fastest driver in Palmont city like its predecessor.

As Mach was driving his blue Nissan 240SX, after he took several win races, until one day he meets Hayato driving the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX MR, he noticing he's a great racer and a child prodigy. Hayato taughs Mach for his car being the slowest and gives him a warning never racing in the Silverton. However, if Mach refuses Hayato's warnings, The Stacked Deck racers destroys the sponsors. Then he left without racing against Mach.

After the meet with Hayato, Mach was instructed by Reiko through his phone to head to the Bayview city to upgrade his Nissan 240SX. Upon arrival of the Bayview El Norte Megalow Parts as the garage, Mach meets Reiko, she working with Mach for their sponsorship through the series of sponsor contracts. The Megalow Parts owner and mechanical engineer Daves, who instructed him on the racing events and gave him hints about the upgrading the car's performance and later on talking about the 3 car categories: Tuner, Muscle, and Exotic.

After completing a series of sponsor contracts as his 240SX is upgraded, Mach encounters a newest, but the weakest boss rival Damien (He's not only the weakest of the rival but the easiest boss in the game even on hard difficulty setting). After winning 3 HIN Racing League races in Bayview city, Mach was challenged to a race by Damien and later defeated him in two consecutive races and he gets a new car the modified Eclipse as a pink slip reward (instead of driving it, he kept it, and it was sold just to find the M8 GTE).

### Rebuilding/Upgrading the M8 GTE

half way through the campaign, Mach becomes noticed by The Wraiths, led by Caleb, who is revealed to be behind of Darius's plans. Reiko warns Mach about his deals of manipulating their sponsorships to claim Bayview's racing scene for himself. Furthermore, their cars are faster than Mach's 240SX, and probably they uses the tier 3 cars already, including Darius's Venom F5. When Mach loses once in the race in Silverton, it all sponsorships they made are instantly gone, and all their hopes lost forever.

To race against with the tier 3 cars including Darius's car, Mach finds a more powerful car as he saw from the past. As Mach headed to the Bayview's junkyard and he found the wreckage of the original BMW M3 GTR with engine intact from Rockport city 4 years ago. Together with his crew, Mach managed to rebuild his M3 GTR, upgrade it and modify it into the BMW M8 GTE with different looks than the Most Wanted incarnation, then he drives it for the first time for the rest of the story. After rebuilding his 4 year old M3 GTR and upgraded into M8 GTE, Mach headed to Palmont City with his modified M8 GTE.

### Returning to Palmont City

While Mach with his modified M8 GTE is on his way to Palmont City in the Infinity Highway, Mach is confronted Gagne for the first time, this time is a conversation first, and gives him a few weeks to prepare for the race between Mach and Gagne. Upon arriving in Palmont City, Mach meets Neville, and was also told about the crew wars in Palmont City between Bushido, 21st Street, T.F.K., Wraiths, and Mezzanotte Club.

Mach's first stop was Downtown with his modded M8 GTE, where he was confronted by Takashi, one of the rival bosses as well as the leader of the Bushido crew. After completing two races in Downtown Palmont city, Mach saw another green Nissan GT-R with the same Bushido livery and he meets Kenji Yagami, and give him a hint to win against Takashi and how to perform drifts perfectly in drift races. After defeating members of the Bushido crew and taking over the territories of Downtown, Mach was challenged to a race by Takashi in a 3 consecutive races, circuit race, drift race in the Infinity Highway, and finally sprint race from Infinity Highway to Downtown. Afterwards, Mach defeated him and taking over the Downtown territory. After defeating the Takashi, and while on his way to Kempton, Kenji Yagami congratulates him for winning against Takashi.

He then headed to Kempton, where he was confronted by Jayna and her 21st Street Crew as well as one of the rival bosses. After completing two races in the Kempton, Mach saw an orange and brown Dodge Viper with the same livery design as one from 21st Street Crew, and then he meets Angie Gonzales and then she helps him a hint to win against Jayna as well as how to perform a perfect shift in a drag race. Upon defeating members of her crew and taking over territories of Kempton, Mach raced against Jayna in 3 races: circuit race, drag race in the Infinity Highway, and finally sprint race from Infinity Highway to Kempton. Afterwards, Mach defeats Jayna and taking over the Kempton teritory. Upon defeating Jayna, Angie Gonzales congratulates him for winning against Jayna through his phone.

Mach's second encounter against Hayato driving the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX MR, this time racing between Mach and Hayato. Mach manages to defeat Hayato in the Sutherden Bell Tower race wars track, Hayato starts to burst in tears as he could not accept his defeat, and then he escapes, leaving his Lancer Evo behind and unable to start the engine.

He then headed to Fortuna, where Mach confronted Carter and his T.F.K. crew as well as one of the rival bosses. After completing two races in the Fortuna, and upon arrival in Fortuna South, a dark silver and white Aston Martin V12 Vanquish with the same livery design as one from the T.F.K. crew, and then he meets Wolf Wolsagent, he's the T.F.K. agent. Wolsagent notices Mach's car was a powerful tier 3 which is the same powerful as his Wolsagent's Vanqiush, then he gives Mach a hint for finding Fortuna's shortcuts, as well as whereabouts of Darius's plans and therefore, he must stop him. After defeating his crew and taking over Fortuna's territories, Mach challenged Carter in a series of races to win the territory, circuit race, first sprint race from Fortuna to Infinity Highway north, and finally second sprint race from Infinity Highway south to Fortuna. Afterwards, Mach defeats Carter and taking over the Fortuna teritory. After defeated Carter, Wolf congratulates him for winning against Carter through his phone.

Mach's third encounter against Hayato on the Steyne Aqueduct race wars track driving his Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat, where he urges Mach to never racing in the Silverton. But Mach refuses to agreement and Hayato angered to race against him. After Mach defeats Hayato, Hayato felts even more anger and tears when Mach offers his help so they could defeat Darius and friendly race together. But Hayato is filled with sadness and rage and he screams his true feelings at anyone including Mach, telling him that he was always trying to worm his way into his mind and that it never mattered to him how he felt. After that, Hayato runs away, leaving Mach behind, confused.

He then headed back to Infinity Highway north, where Mach is confronted by Gagne and his Mezzanotte Club once more. After defeating his crew and taking over both north and south Infinity Highways, Mach was challenged to a race by Gagne in three races: circuit race, speed trap race, and sprint race from the north and south Infinity Highway, and later defeated him and taking over the Infinity Highways teritory.

After Mach defeating him, Gagne warns Mach about racing against Darius, and when Mach loses him, Darius destroys all of Sponsors instantly. And then Gagne gives a phone number of Darius to Mach and left. Then he heads back to Palmont Garage to ask Neville and later to Bayview to race against Caleb.

Mach's fourth encounter with Hayato on the Liberty Square race wars track, where he means to force never racing in the Silverton. Mach taughs him that Hayato's cars were inferior. In a rage, Hayato lashes out at Mach, and tells him that Hayato's cars are superior, and he drives the Lamborghini Gallardo. Mach and Hayato race, but Hayato is once again defeated, and runs away, leaving his Gallardo behind and unable to start the engine.

### Big Challenge against Caleb

Upon arriving in Bayview City, Mach confronted Caleb and his crew, telling him "Welcome to our crew, fool!", and then, the Bayview Coal Harbor area is now a territory for his crew. Mach proceeds to challenge The Wraiths and defeats them. After defeating his crew and taking over Coal Harbor, due to his crew's poor performance, Caleb loses his sponsors and challenges Mach in 4 races: circuit race (two laps only unlike NFS Underground 2), sprint race from Coal Harbor west to Jackson Heights and another circuit race in the north Infinity Highway and finally sprint race from Infinity Highway to Bayview.
Upon defeating Caleb, all of people in the Bayview city are rejoiced and applause on Machs victory and the Bayview city is no longer be invaded by any crews. But however, there is only one boss crew remaining in the Palmont City, and that is Darius.

Hayato's pure sadness and rage come to an end on the crew boss challenge race. Meeting again with Mach, he insists that he is the one destined to become a true hero of the streets. In his final rage against Mach, he drives the modified and custom built Carrera GT which even much faster than his previous 3 cars. Mach against Hayato in the final race in a 4 race wars tracks. Mach defeats Hayato one last time, however he starts to burst in tears a bit, complaining his longest losing streaks, even full motivation, and even the fastest hyper car being flat out unwinnable. Due to being a artificial body, Hayato was a former Global Most Wanted and there's only way to end this tangible threat... by ending his life, then he leaves with his Carrera GT to the infinity highway faraway from Palmont city. Thus he never coming back again.

### Final Challenge against Darius

Once all 6 of the crew bosses were beaten, Mach received a phone call from Darius to meet up with him at the Infinity Highway south to congratulate him. However, upon arriving there, he quickly realized that it was just a setup: Darius give him an invitation card for a final challenge called the Silverton Grand Prix, and then Darius left to say to Mach "Good luck, BMW racer."

Just as Darius left, Mach's M8 GTE was a tier 3 car, and it could very powerful enough to race against other tier 3 cars in Silverton, including Darius's car. It that case the modded M3 GTR is a triumph card, and faster enough to defeat Darius.
After 3 days in the Bayview City, Mach along with Reiko headed to Silverton with the Silverton Grand Prix invitation card in the morning, where he was challenged by the game's final boss Darius along with his boss rivals, who were determined to take revenge against Mach and regain their territories.

After defeating his crew and taking over the Silverton, Mach race the 6 boss rivals in the 3 races in HIN Racing League. After defeating the 6 boss rivals in HIN Racing League, Mach then confronted Darius on the main street of Silverton, where faced a series of 5 races similar to the final race against Razor: circuit race (same as NFS Carbon), drag race in the Infinity Highway north, speed trap race in the Infinity Highway south, another circuit race in the Infinity Highway north and south, and finally sprint race from Infinity Highway south, across Bayview city, Infinity Highway north to Silverton (This is the longest track in the game, much like the NFS World loop, Final race against Darius is the longest, but not hardest in the Need For Speed franchise. Rebooting the game at any point will waste many minutes of game time). Afterward, Mach finally defeated Darius, taking over the Silverton territory.

Following Mach's victory in the Silverton all people in the Silverton Grand Prix applause and cheered in joy on Mach's winning, Darius handed the keys to his Hennessey Venom F5 to Mach and warned him that there will always be someone faster than him and that he will catch up with him. Just as Darius left town, Mach became the best racer in Bayview and Palmont.

In the epilogue, Mach leaves the Palmont city to the across the Kerr Dam waterfalls while he still driving his M8 GTE, thus the Mach Campaign story ends.

## Character Info

### Appearance

Mach is identical to Ruka's except he's 20 years old, slightly older than Josh. He sports short indigo-colored hair and blue eyes. He wears a casual outfit consist of white t-shirt, silver jacket, a dark blue long pants and a pair of brown sneakers.

### Personality

Mach is a gentle and humble young man, but very serious about racing. Racing is such a priority to him that he once skipped school enough to make him have to repeat a grade just to race, although his grades are good. He also worked as a waiter to get money just to repair his M3 GTR. Other crewmates such as Neville and Reiko, they aid Mach, even if he is shown to be only interested in cars and racing.

## Cars

Mach Barrows drives a two cars: Nissan 240SX from the beginning all the way to on the first half of Mach Campaign until it was sold along with the Eclipse for the M8 GTE, and the second and final car was the direct upgraded BMW M8 GTE with the same Most Wanted look, and it looks like a racing car with the addition vinyl and decals, but much faster, and It is capable of performing a safety drift physics, even during nitrous or Giganitro (aka, "Kansei Drift"). Also it has unique Giganitro, when activated, a energy wind came out from the air vents of the M3 GTR and warps around it to form a drill bit tornado, then dashes forward in extreme speeds, which allows it to pass through multiple cars, including traffic which can be overtaken without being collided with another vehicle before Giganitro ends and the wind dissipates (however, in the similar manner of the Dodge Viper SRT-10's Giganitro, if any opponent cars attempt to block the M8 GTE's Giganitro and being caught, it will instantly knocked into the air while spinning, landing and crashing into the ground, wrecking it instantly, thus making it most dangerous and the fastest Giganitro in the game and effective as takedown car).

The M8 GTE's horsepower is now 1600 and the top speed up to nearly 400 KPH (248 MPH), while it goes Giganitros up to 520 KPH (323 MPH), it is capable to overtake most opponent vehicles, but he must engage the enhanced Braking system, allowing him to safely slowing his vehicle down as he enters a corners or stop almost instant as an emergency brake.

Like the player from other Need For Speed games, Mach can also drives the Player's chosen car instead of his three default cars (Tuner, Exotic and Muscle cars), but his default car was M8 GTE in the cutscene.

## Trivia

* Mach is one of the playable drivers in Need For Speed: Hot Import Nights, not unlike how Need for Speed: Payback had three playable characters.
	+ Mach Campaign is different than Ruka Campaign since Ruka Cooper doesn't appears in.
* Mach is the only character in Need For Speed Hot Import Nights that he only drives two cars the 240SX and the BMW M8 GTE as the final car.
* Mach outfit color scheme is based on M3 GTR's colors.
* Mach's personality is based on Akio Asakura from Wangan Midnight series.
* His voice actors include:
	+ Ben Diskin (English)
	+ Tetsuya Kakihara (Japanese)