Speed Racer (2008) Car Models

In the Speed Racer film and tie-in videogame, in addition to the unique cars belonging to important characters, there's also several vehicles who share the same body shape. This page is a list of all known ones and the examples/members. There were over 100 car designs made in total, with 55 main vehicles and 40-50 background vehicles. The virtual car concepts seen here were created by Alejandro Lecuna.

Note: The type names are not official and are just how the fanbase groups them.

Type A
The Type A is a very common type of car. They are seen in every major T-180 event from the movie. This type is most known for Grey Ghost's car.

Cars
 * Fumée
 * Garaiya (red and blue versions)
 * Masurai
 * No. 55 T-180
 * Firebatter T-180
 * Generic T-180 A

Type B
The Type B is only seen in two cars from the Grand Prix race. One of them being from the antagonistic character Kakkoi Teppodama and the other a background vehicle with no known sponsor.

Cars
 * Seppuku
 * No. 78 T-180

Unused Designs

Type C
There's three Type C cars in the movie. All of them are seen at the Grand Prix, but one of them (the Thistle) is featured earlier in the Fuji Helexicon race.

Cars
 * Thistle (red and orange versions)
 * Iodyde (pink and yellow versions)
 * Redliner / Scuttler (game only)

Type D
The Type D is a very common type of car. They are seen in every major T-180 event from the movie.

Cars
 * Skullmelter
 * ULUL T-180 (yellow/blue and grey/red versions)
 * Hikari Moyomono T-180
 * Sumiya T-180 (red and blue versions)
 * Shinseido T-180
 * Gormandizer (game only)

Unused Designs

Type E
The Type E appears to be based on an early concept art for the Mach 5. Only Prince Kabala's car and two other generic ones are seen in the movie, at the Grand Prix.

Cars
 * Gigerbon
 * Generic T-180 C (white/red and white/blue versions)

Type F
The Type F is only seen at the Grand Prix, and all three are noteworthy in some way. The drivers of the Chalk-Head and the Janus Automakers T-180 attempt to take out Speed Racer during the race; the Zoomishi on the other hand was made into a Hot Wheels die cast.

Cars
 * Chalk-Head
 * Janus Automakers T-180
 * Zoomishi

Type G
The Type G is featured at Thunderhead and the Grand Prix. It is mostly known for Kellie "Gearbox" Kalinkov's car.

Cars
 * Matryoshka
 * Infernal Oil T-180
 * Kasatoshi T-180
 * Chichi (game only)

Type H
The Type H is featured at Fuji and the Grand Prix. It is used by the prominent character, Taejo Togokahn, as well being the type of the promotional Brazilian car, the Petrobras-1 (also known as Green Energy).

Cars
 * Hangul
 * Green Energy
 * Generic T-180 D (yellow and orange versions)

Unused Designs

Type I
The Type I is an unique car, only used by Pitter Pat's Fera1.

Cars
 * Fera1

Unused Designs

Type J
Despite there only being two designs of the Type J in the movie (excluding recolors), the type appears in every T-180 event. Zokeo Communications' Surge Box is the most unique iteration of this model seen in the film.

Cars
 * Surge Box (green, orange and blue versions)
 * Generic T-180 B (blue/white and red/yellow versions)

Unused Designs

Type J v2
While known as Type J v2 in the community, this model is quite different from the previous one: It features a raised spoiler, two small round headlights atop the front wings, a different joint system design, different sides, and a different back. They are seen at Fuji and the Grand Prix, and the type's most prominent vehicle that appears in the movie is the Kreuzberg 36 T-180.

Cars
 * Kreuzberg 36 T-180 (red and blue versions)
 * Cheerios T-180 (blue/yellow and red/blue versions)
 * D-Barrel (game only)

Unused Designs

Type K
Only two of this type appear in the movie, but both are noteworthy for trying to destroy Speed's car during the Fuji race. The Type K is also featured at Thunderhead and the Grand Prix, being in all major T-180 events.

Cars
 * Manecks Novelties T-180 (Grand Prix and Fuji versions)
 * Nosok T-180 (Fuji and Thunderhead versions)
 * Chit Ticket (game only)

Type L
The Type L is featured on three teams from the Casa Cristo 5000 rally race, the most prominent of them being the Flying Foxes Freight team led by Delila.

Cars
 * Flying Foxes street cars
 * Joe's Drive-In street cars
 * BodySculpt Gym street cars

Type M
The Type M is an unique car, only used by Taejo Togokahn.

Cars
 * Togokahn Motors street car

Unused Designs

Type N
The Type N is an unique car, only used by Colonel Colon's team, Sempre Fi-Ber.

Cars
 * Sempre Fi-Ber street cars

Type O
Despite being most known as Snake Oiler's street car, there's another Type O car. The different between the two is that this second vehicle lacks fangs.

Cars
 * Hydra-Cell street cars
 * Fear & Fury street cars

Type P
The Type P is the most common type of street car, used by many minor teams from the Casa Cristo race. Yen-Che's cars are the most prominent as they are seen throughout the whole race.

Cars
 * Yen-Che street cars
 * Topps street car
 * Z Bikes street cars
 * Shark (BodySculpt Gym leader)
 * Shockwave street cars

Type Q
Both Type Q teams get their moment in the Casa Cristo race from the movie. The Mutafed team tries to use a goo gun on Taejo, only to accidentally spray it on their own member, while the Atomic Injectables team is seen throughout the whole race.

Cars
 * Atomic Injectables street cars
 * Mutafed street cars

Unused Designs

Type Q v2
T-180 version of the Type Q made for the videogame. The Nuke Shot and the Chimpinator are mostly the same, except for the banana-like features on the latter's turbine.

Cars
 * Nuke Shot (game only)
 * Chimpinator (game only)

Type R
The Type R is the rarest non-unique car in the movie, only seen in brief shots of the Thunderhead flashback, as well as in the beginning of the Casa Cristo race.

Cars
 * Ayumi Kan street cars
 * Early-generation T-180 D
 * Hydra-Cell street cars (U.B. Funkeys)

Unused Designs

Type S
The Type S is an unique car, only used by Snake Oiler's Hydrophiidae.

Cars
 * Hydrophiidae

Type T
The Type T is an unique car, only used by Gothorm Danneskjøld's team, Thor-Axine.

Cars
 * Thor-Axine street cars

Type T v2
T-180 version of the Type T made for the videogame.

Cars
 * Taangrisnir (game only)

Type U
Unique early-generation T-180 only seen in the Thunderhead flashback.

Cars
 * Early-generation T-180 B
 * U.B. Funkeys T-180s

Type V
Early-generation T-180 version of the Type Q seen in the Rex Racer flashbacks.

Cars
 * Early-generation T-180 C
 * Richenbach's car
 * U.B. Funkeys T-180s

Unused Designs

Type W
The Type W is an early-generation T-180 seen in the Rex Racer flashbacks. It is the type of the car he uses while working for Uniron.

Cars
 * Uniron car
 * Early-generation T-180 A

Unused Designs

Unused Types
There are many car models that weren't used in the movie. This is a list of all the known ones.