Terrazi Utopia

Terrazi Utopia
Manufacturer	Terrazi
Appearance	Ridge Racer Type 4
Class	4
Engine	Jet rocket engine
Handling type	Grip

The Terrazi Utopia is a Special Machine manufactured by Terrazi, featured in Ridge Racer Type 4.

Design and performance

Modeled as a top-speed attack car, the Utopia is the longest machine in the game. Power comes from a rocket engine producing over 3,750 horsepower (roughly 2.796 megawatts), enough to make this car R4's fastest and most powerful machine. Unusually for a top speed attack car, the car is implied to have only three wheels, with two wheels at front and one at rear, just like the Terrazi Wildboar. Due to its length, it's effectively the worst handling devil machine in R4, in spite of it being a grip car.

The Extra Trial race for this car is held in Shooting Hoops for the Pac Racing Club version of the car.

The Utopia was succeeded by the Terrazi Terrajin in Ridge Racer 6.

The following is a translated transcription of the car featured in the Japanese Ridge Racer Type 4 - Namco Official Guide Book R4:

Dreams control the world. (Utopia)

Utopia. This name has a special meaning to Terrazi. Shortly after the war, when Soichiro Teraji was a fledgling motorcycle maker, the first motorcycle to cross the mountain of Hakone was a motorcycle named Utopia (Ideal Township). It's hard to imagine now, but at that time, it was impossible for the Utopia, which bears the box name on a motorcycle, to cross the roots of Terrazi's flagship, so Terrazi's Utopia realized an era. It became an electric child and pushed Terrazi to become the largest motorcycle manufacturer. It is experimentally equipped with a jet rocket engine and boasts a maximum speed of 3,700 horsepower and 390 km/h. The rocket that passes through the ground is Terrazi's spirit itself.

Performance chart

The car's maximum speed and horsepower from all the four stages and teams. The Garage number indicates the car number in the Change Car (in the Garage mode).

Stage	Garage	DRT	MMM	PRC	RTS
4	20	395 km/h 246 mph (3738 ps)	392 km/h 245 mph (3729 ps)	399 km/h 249 mph (3750 ps)	397 km/h 248 mph (3746 ps)

• Horsepower numbers taken from rr-ken.net (Japanese language only). Please note, the horsepower numbers are not displayed in the game.

Trivia

What appears to be the car's speedometer in a French commercial for the game

• A French commercial for Ridge Racer Type 4 shows a showcase of the Terrazi Utopia where it features what appears to be the car's speedometer, reading up to 500km/h, which suggests that the Utopia is capable of even higher speeds than what was seen in-game.
  • This may imply that the Utopia used in-game has had its engine power limited, possibly due to Real Racing Roots regulations or to improve reliability/fuel consumption.
• The Utopia's livery was reused by the Terrazi Terrific in Ridge Racer 64.
• In the Japanese version of R4, the mid-section of the PRC version's livery has "ORIGINAL SIN" and "EXPULSION" written on it, as well as "ADAM" and "TERRAZI" written on the car's front; in all other versions of the game, the first three are changed to "UTOPIA", "TERRAZI" and "namco", respectively.
  • If looked closely, the words "LIFE" and "KNOWLEDGE" can be also seen on the sides of the car - those are present in all releases.
• The Terrazi Utopia features the most powerful known engine out of all the cars in the series.
• The Utopia somehow resembles the Mickey Thompson Challenger land speed record car, but unlike the said car being powered by a combustion engine, and that the Utopia is rocket-powered, it may have similarities to the ThrustSSC.
• Unlike its successor, the Terrajin, the Utopia actually produces vapor trails from its exhaust under normal circumstances.
• In one of Ridge Racer 7 newstickers, it is mentioned that the Utopia is being exhibited at Terrazi's recently opened motor museum, which in turn references Honda's Collection Hall museum.

Gallery

The Utopia of Micro Mouse Mappy (MMM)

The Utopia of Pac Racing Club (PRC)

The Utopia of Racing Team Solvalou (RTS)

The Utopia of Dig Racing Team (DRT)

Unused official renders uploaded to Namco's Ridge Racer fan site on Facebook.