Bushido (Hot Import Nights)

The Bushido are a Japanese street racing crew who are based primarily in the Downtown borough of Palmont City. They are lead by Takashi.

## History

In Hot Import Nights, Takashi was the chief of the Bushido as part of Darius's Plans to complete the power and fame over the city, including the Bayview city. Takashi's crew specialized in driving tuners, and conquered much of Downtown; instead, he's protected the Downtown territory.

When Ruka Cooper arrives in Palmont city for the first time, Ruka will first face against Takashi. Upon Ruka entering the Downton Palmont Billings District north, Takashi and his crew will appear and harass Ruka, telling him needs to be given up and leave from town, but Ruka refuses and he replies "Who are you?" as he introduces himself properly. After Ruka wins 3 Downtown Sponsor race events, Takashi will arrive again, harassing Ruka calling his car and sponsors pathetic, as Ruka replies Takashi, saying "Pathetic? it's not pathetic sponsors! Don't be joke about the sponsors, it's real! Just tell me, are you a better drift talent than Kenji?" while Takashi replies "Kenji? Ha! foolish kid! I'm a more experienced in drift talent than Kenji!", and eventually drives off after a short conversation.

After Ruka wins all Downtown HIN racing league races as he defeats the Bushido gang, as Kenji Yagami left for groceries, Takashi will call up Ruka to race him personally, first in the city, second drifting contest in the Infinity Highway north, and finally sprint race from Infinity Highway to Downtown. After Ruka defeats Takashi, Downtown taken by Ruka, and Bushido disbanded, thus the Bushido crew is permanently no longer exist.

Later on, the Stacked Deck leader Darius recruits Takashi into his crew along with Caleb, Gagne, Carter and Jayna, all five former crew bosses including Damien who joins the Stacked Deck crew.

## Territory

When the player arrives back to Palmont, the Bushido crew controls three out of the five districts of the Downtown borough, as minor crews such as Los Colibries and the Kings took over the Mason District and Historic Chinatown. Eventually, depending on the player's choice of car class, either the player's crew or Bushido will retake these territories. However, regardless, the Bushido will lose territory from the Player's Crew, and as a result will cease to exist after Takashi is defeated.

## Vehicles

All Bushido members drive only Tuner cars either Tier 1 if the player chose a Tuner career, or Tier 2 if the player has defeated another crew boss (Tier 3 however is only one of them, that is Kenji Yagami's Nissan GT-R and he's not a part of the Bushido crew, he's the ally of Ruka). Bushido's members vehicles are all colored green, with a black strip going over their left sides of their vehicles. Higher ranking members such as Kenji and Yumi have the Bushido's official logo on the bumper of their cars, being golden eyes. Kenji drives a green Mazda RX-7 with Bushido livery. However, one member Ali appears to be the only member who drives without the Bushido livery. As for Kenji Yagami's GT-R Nismo however, it's livery was the same livery as the Mazda RX-7's with the same green and black color as it said livery with the addition of "神" symbol on the right side of the Nissan GT-R.

* Toyota Sprinter GT Apex AE86
* Mazda RX-8 (Tier 1)
* Mazda Mazdaspeed3 (Tier 1)
* Mitsubishi Eclipse GT
* Volkswagen Golf R32
* Renault Clio V6
* Mazda RX-7 (driven by Kenji, obtainable after the player has defeated Kenji in the boss race and acquired his pink slip)
* Nissan GT-R (R35) (Tier 3, only driven by Kenji Yagami)

## Members

* Takashi (Leader)
* Yumi (Higher ranking member)
* Hanzo (Middle Ranked Member)
* Moon (member)
* Cho (member)
* Bauxi (member)
* Clown (member)
* Siren (member)
* Ali (Lower ranked member, lacks Bushido livery)
* Kenji Yagami (formerly Bushido crew member, ally and joins Ruka Cooper)

## Trivia

* Bushido is a Japanese honor code for Samurais.

## External Link

* Article on Bushido on the Need For Speed Carbon wiki