RE Amemiya

RE Amemiya Car Co., Ltd. (有限会社RE雨宮自動車, Yūgen Kaisha Āru-ī Amemiya Jidōsha) is a car tuning company from Tomisato, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, founded by Isami Amemiya (雨宮 勇美, Amemiya Isami) in 1974. Amemiya and his company are known for their expertise in tuning rotary-powered Mazdas; the "RE" in its name is an allusion to the rotary engine.

RE Amemiya's cars are often featured in touge races on the Japanese show Hot Version; these races are run in a cat-and-mouse fashion, much like in Initial D. The RE Amemiya-tuned Mazda FD3S RX-7 has competed against the Amuse Honda S2000, the J's Racing Honda S2000 and the MCR Nissan R34 Skyline GT-R. RE Amemiya's blue FD3S held the title of "Maou" (魔王, Maō; "Demon King") from 2004 through 2006, before losing the title to the J's Racing car at the 2007 event as the battle conditions were in the rain. The company reclaimed the title of Maou after winning against the J's Racing S2000 in 2009 with a new green FD3S. Thus far, RE Amemiya has won the Maou title four times with three different cars.

Both the blue FD3S and its GT300 counterpart, as detailed below, are featured in Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo series of racing video games.

In addition to competing in tuner events, RE Amemiya began its participation as the lone rotary entry in the Super GT series in 1995, with a 3-rotor 20B-powered RX-7 in the GT300 class.^[1] The team achieved a GT300 victory in 2006 and would go on to achieve more success over the following seasons, including 3 more race wins and 11 podiums. In 2009, RE Amemiya finished 2nd in the GT300 Championship, narrowly being beaten by the Racing Project Bandoh Lexus IS350. In 2010, their final season in Super GT, RE Amemiya finished 3rd in the GT300 Championship behind Hasemi Motorsport and Autobacs Racing Team Aguri, respectively.

RE Amemiya have also competed in the D1 Grand Prix drifting series since 2004. For their second year of competition (2005), driver Masao Suenaga scored a victory at Fuji Speedway but finished as runner-up overall in the Grand Prix, losing by just one point to Yasuyuki Kazama.^[2]

(key) Races in bold indicate pole position. Races in italics indicate fastest lap.

(key) Races in bold indicate pole position. Races in italics indicate fastest lap.

Note: Non-championship races (NC1, NC2) are major championship races that did not count towards the championship.

• RE Amemiya official home page
• Supercars.net GT300 car
• HDR photos of an RX-7 RE Amemiya Archived 2010-09-27 at the Wayback Machine