Reiko Nagase (Hot Import Nights)

**Reiko Nagase** is one of the main characters of Need For Speed: Hot Import Nights, and one the main and playable characters in Career Mode: Mach Campaign. She's a friend of Mach Barrows and a supporting protagonist in the Hot Import Nights saga who aids him.

## History

Mach Campaign
Reiko appears in the career mode: Mach Campaign after meeting between Mach and Hayato for the first time, Reiko instructs him through Mach's phone to head to the Bayview El Norte Megalow parts. Upon Mach's arrival, Reiko meets him and she working with Mach for their sponsorship through the series of sponsor contracts.

Reiko helps Mach frequently throughout the game by giving them tips on driving, secret shops, important events and sometimes hidden events as well as boss rivals in Palmont city.

## Character Info

### Appearance

Reiko is a young girl of 24 years old, slightly older than Mach's with a pale dark brown short hair and orange eyes. She's always wears an office lady-style suit even racing consist of white long sleeved blouse, a long sleeve indigo blazer (both are rolled to only her past elbow, a short skirt with the same color as her blazer. She seems wearing a sheer stockings, and a pair of red ankle strapped high-heel shoes.

### Personality

Similar to Sara, Reiko is very helpful and cheery to Mach, and she's energetic, has a flippant attitude, excellent driving skills, quick reflexes, surprising wit, and the physique to outperform others, she preferred as the "Race Queen". She befriends Mach and later catches feelings for him, even if he is shown to be only interested in cars and racing.

## Car

Reiko only drives a modified orange and yellow GTA Spano 2016 with black stripes livery. A 9-speed automatic transmission, a unique nitrous oxide, ECU system, a Stage 3 GTX turbocharger, and it has a enhanced ABS and the emergency brake systems. Like Mach's M3 GTR, the modified Spano 2016 has a higher top speeds, acceleration and very responsive car which is capable of performing a safety drift physics, even during nitrous or Giganitro (aka, "Kansei Drift"). Also the Spano 2016 uses the standard Giganitro, except color orange and yellow colors, and very controllable tractions. This 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 Spano's Giganitro, if any opponent cars attempt to block the M3 GTR'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 Modded M3 GTR's horsepower is 900, which is the same as the modded M3 GTR, except fastest consisting of 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, Reiko must engage the enhanced Braking system, allowing him to safely slowing her vehicle down as she enters corners or stop almost instant as an emergency brake.

## Trivia

* Reiko Nagase is one of the playable drivers in Need For Speed: Hot Import Nights, not unlike how Need for Speed: Payback had three playable characters.
* Reiko is an original character in Need For Speed: Hot Import Nights, instead of being a direct Ridge Racer counterpart.
* Her outfit is based on the intro of Ridge Racer Type 4 as well as her car's color scheme.