Vanishingly few Mazda RX-3s ever made it to the UK ... the necessary dimensions for Japan’s city cars, the mid-engined layout, gull-wing doors and plastic panels were anything but conventional.

The star car in Tokyo Drift is undoubtedly the third-generation FD Mazda RX-7 driven by Han Lue (played by Sung Kang), a sticky-fingered expert drifter. This was no ordinary RX-7, of course ...