Because Taiwan is so heavily influenced by Japanese culture, and because there are endless mountain roads, I figured that Taiwan would be full of illegal street racing. I basically thought that every night the mountain roads would become like an episode of Initial D (a japanese cartoon about drift racing down mountain roads). I would even go up and down these roads on my motorcycle hoping to catch some racing, but it never happened.
Most likely because there really isn't a car culture in Taiwan. Cars are basically twice the price in Taiwan as they are in other countries, meaning that the wild and crazy kids who would like street racing, can't afford cars. Instead they will buy scooters and trick out their scooters with all kinds of lights and accessories. But you can't really race a scooter, so scooter races aren't a thing.
On a walk I came across this rally car. The insides had been taken out and replaced with all the things needed to make it a real rally car. I had never heard of the Taiwan Rally Car Championship, and looking online there doesn't seem much about it, or that it even still exists. But it does seem that some places to take cars and modify them to be rally cars, and then you can go out on some countryside roads to drive very fast.
As I like to sometimes say "i hope that my Chinese never gets too good, or there will be some things I will say that I know i shouldn't." Well let's hope that I never have enough money to buy a rally car, leading to my eventual death.
