The Downfall of A Secret Car Club
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Midnight Club was a famous car club in Japan and was mostly known for its insanely high performance cars, cryptic messages for meets, and wickedly good driving. But did you know this? Let me know below and don't forget to subscribe here! - bit.ly/3kXgWr0
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Dude all you said are lies, i can get you in contact with a member of the club if you want to fix this, if you wont, i will be reporting you
Alot of the big tuning companies, JUN, HKS, Mines, Trust, ect.. their big members have some roots way back in the Midnight Club too. Allegedly....
TOP SECRET definitely do.
@@doublem5679 for the love of god smokey nagata was never in midnight club mainly due to reputation he already garnered at that point
@@mr.raikage164 yeah midnight club hate a high profile people to be in their group
Smokey did work on few of the midnight club’s cars but never were part of it.
The Midnight Club is hyprocrital
They still exist and race on tracks. The MIDNIGHT racing team
And they still respect the no crashing rule.
yeah haven’t heard much of the team since tho formula events or?
They never disbanded they just went quiet and still were street racing for years until recent, well that's the theory
@lunex they did technically disband but there were former members who didn't want it to die and they tried to keep it going but sadly without the support of the former leaders they couldn't get many people to participate.
They ain't the OGs. 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾
Major correction: Midnight Club actually didn't (or might not) disbanded coz first of all, there's no clear evidence of when the accident actually happened hence some of JDM tuner guys or enthusiast like us known this story as almost like a myth. Even the Japanese cops have no record of the date of the specific accident that happened between the Bozosoku and Midnight Club members. So anyways, they've rather went silent for a long time until recently they've returned as the same midnight club but with a different goals in mind and that is to never return into street racing ever again but instead they'll only race on track days like time attacks, circuit racing and etc (any kinds of pro racing). But the principle rule of joining the club is still the same (no wonder why only few people are able to join the club because they aren't like any other wannabe car guys).
yeah i was gonna say they did it as a cover up there is no record of the accident, it was like all just a clear way to get back under the radar before deciding to expose themselves on the track
@@oni5909 true!!! They've just recently revealed themselves on track racing and I guess, occasional meets but still, searching them around the cities of Japan is still hard to find. You barely encounter a member of it due to their secret codes. Even tho one of the former members of the club (one of them is the current CEO of the GT-R and NISMO if I'm not mistaken and that person used the R32 Skyline GT-R before) still deny of their affiliation of the club even tho their own cars are already known world-wide. Again, I'm not condoning any types of explicit street racing (unless it's a very closed course like mountain passes), you shouldn't do it unless you wanna risk your driver's license getting revoked.
Yea the whole story makes no sense.
Somehow the Bozos "corraled" them into a head on collision in a trafficked area? Yea no.
They didn't disappear. They're under the radar.
Says some guy on the internet. You know this how?
@@mattmayes7510 source: trust me bro.
@@mattmayes7510 says some guy on the internet, You DON'T know this? how?
So they don't actually respect their own rules?
@@JohnSmith-im8qtNo they do this moron is just pulling things out his ass theres literally nothing to prove or say they are still racing on the streets
Japanese people are so respectful that when they mess up, they discipline themselves lol
WW2 Warcrimes. Unit 731. Mass torture and execution of POWs. The Rape of Nanking.
I understand the lol but its kinda true what you said and i respect them for that quite alot
The fact that there was no crash that day makes this story soo amazing 😮
They faked a accidents to go under the radar which is totally badass frr
They still exist. One of their supra's just got stolen, but was recovered same day. And their cars have been at car shows recently too
He shut the car club down and made the best car game known to man Mr midnight is the goat
not really what happened, the channel Albon covered it and it was a number of factors, plus there wasn't really one big crash
That's what I'm saying
It's actually really sad. No one knows who the leader of Midnight Club was but he owned the fastest car in the entire club and it was nicknamed "Blackbird" after the United States SR71 Blackbird. The story I've always heard was that the leader witnessed the head on collisions and was never the same again. I remember long ago seeing photos that claimed it was Blackbird for sale. For the leader of Midnight Club it wasn't just about the fact that they broke their highest rule, it was also that he watched some of his dearest friends die. I quit street racing for the same reason. My best friend of 23 years died on impact with a wrong way driver during a night race on the interstate.
His porsche was metallic burgundy 930 turbo ,.yoshida specials 911
may your friend rest in peace
Midnight club is a game, midnight is a racing team that still exists and never was disbanded. Publicly they participate in time attack races on tracks and can be found at daikoku pa car meets
You can even find them on Instagram
Yes all the info in this vid is pretty much not accurate they never put where the next event would be and they never disbanded and there was no crash with the bokozoku and there called racing team midnight not midnight club
(They never put where the next event would be in the paper they would just tell the members when)*
Someone's too young and didn't play midnight club on PS2 that was a direct influence of the actual club
@@novatryshots yes, I know about the game🤷♂️ I'm just saying the racing team's name doesn't have club in it. Yet people still refer to them as the game
I rememeer there was a game where you raced in the tokyo highway and the midnight club was the final club. The cars were so fast and hard to beat. But it made you work for it. Such a fun game.
It has to be the Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift game
@Fernando Aguila Gonzalez no it was before that movie even came out. I believe the game was called tokyo extreme racer zero. I looked up old ps2 games and that's the closest I can come to remembering it.
This story is fake, crash happened but Mid Night RACING TEAM said "shit happens" and moved on. When police cracked down at street racers they went silent and when Yoshida (chairman/leader) commited fraud they kicked him and got a new chairman, now they are circuit racing
That story after a lot of researching, seems to be fake. A similar crash happened many years before the club disband, but it didn't disband the club. But regardless, if crash like that happened, there should news or police reports of it, and there isn't.
They also still exist as a track racing team.
There is speculation that the crash in the late 90s early 2000s was a way to get off the scene, as at that time, cars were getting way easier to push big power. Together with police cracking down on these racers, it looks like it was an easy way out. There is a dude on youtube, he explained it very well
Yeahhhh that theory has kinda been pushed aside, more the adding of speed cameras throughout, issues with some higherups, some being arrested they went to racing circuits as a car club
I always thought it was because Takumi destroyed them with an AE86
Nani?!
The biker story is not confirmed. But one of the key members (co leader or leader) actually got into prison for scamming and fraud. Years later te MIDDNIGHT racing team resurfaced but it is not confirmed if they really consist of former members of the original midnight club. THere are good videos out there that explain this in a lot more detail.
ROCKSTAR!!!! WE NEED A NEW MIDNIGHT CLUB GAME!!!!
Set in japan
Fun fact, anyone that heard about Wangan Midnight and the Anime knows the Rivaly of the Porsche 911 Blackbird and Datsun 240Z Devil Z, well their Rivaly was also real, except that the Datsun 240Z was rummored to be Red Color while the porsche was actually Yoshida Special 930 with red maroon color.
Who's gonna tell him that he is dead wrong?
We're waiting for the information. Go head
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@@MFBushidoBrown or you can back up your opposing claim?
@@sniperh2o325 am i guessing that you didnt click the youtube link or even scroll through the comments
Tokyo extreme racing video game ...was my absolute favorite......would play for hrs
That is very nice. Good on you, Japan and very respectful you got there
Someone should bring this back 😢
“Why did the midnight club end”
Because it wasn’t midnight anymore it was 12:01
I’m sorry for whoever read this
I had to say it
Get out 😂😂😂😂👉🚪...also, based Senna pfp
You can hold the door open for yourself
I always wanted to join the Midnight Club. But I could never figure out what time they met up.
The accident was rumors. The midnight club is now underground.
The crash rumor never had any solid proof, there are zero news articles from around that time that talk about a crash or deaths of drivers and no members or people who know members have ever talked about a crash being the cause.
The main cause was apparently the leader being done for fraud (he would tell people he could import cars like porsche and Lamborghini and then just steal peoples money) and the other members not being very happy with the whole situation meant the group basically disbanded overnight with a few OG members still keeping it alive through official racing like time attack.
If you want to see the Midnite track cars, go see Shubox, Narita Dogfight, and The Chronicles.
Ayo, completely off topic, were did you get that shirt is fire
I still got my original midnight club 3 dub edition for my original Xbox and psp, i still play them
Midnight club dub edition was a huge part of my childhood. God I loved that game.
クラブは人々がちょうど隠れているので、まだテレアであり、今では会うために使用する電話があります
Midnight Club Dubb edition was my favorite racing game
Leader of the mid night club was
Smokee nagata
Car:legendary smokee nagata top secret supra mk4
the only reason i don’t like your videos is because you turn everything i already knew & loved into a mainstream thing.
yeah no, there’s no record of the accident it was a cover to go under the radar and they succeeded, the masterminds be crazy bro.
I heard they didn't disband but just went even deeper underground and started resurfacing recently with brand new gtrs and stuff
mad respect for that club - never endanger someone not in the club
Team midnight, as far as I understand, comprised of unofficial test drivers for tuning companies who would push vehicles to the limits on the street to test and promote parts as it was easier and faster than testing on tracks, plus more marketable to the, at the time, mostly underground Japanese tuning and street racing scene. The rules about endangering the public were a result of the (albeit loose) company affiliation. They disbanded because the tuning scene went legit and tuning companies got big enough to test on tracks. **THIS IS JUST MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION AS A DENIZEN OF THE INTERNET CAR SCENE**
Wasn't this disproven when they couldn't find any news reports of accidents of this caliber? Didn't they just go further underground? I still hear stories though, from way back.
You speak better in your shorts then most people. I was just talking today how some points should just be made outright and ket stand on their own
I Thought You Were Talking About The Game When Referring to Midnight Club
*starts getting nostalgia when i was 5 on my ps3*
It's respectable that they had the integrity to disband after the incident.
They made that story up because if an accident at that magnitude didn't appear in the news it's very suspicious.
Or at least, that's how the legend goes...
Underground racing done right, really interesting story
I read that that story was actually faked to get the spotlight away from them, since the Japanese street laws were being more strict and more enforced and most of their members were high names in big companies, it was safer to go dark
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If you’re asking on the internet, you already know the answer. You’re driving the car not them.
Manual. If ever there is a bad snowfall just use one of your families vehicles or just ride with them
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First rule of fight club YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB
They actually race at 11:57 now. Soo... It's the 3 till midnight club.
Actually it disappeared as a minute passed and it became the 12:01am club. Hope this helps. :)
I played midnight club 2 all the time on PS2
"Why did the midnight club disappear over the night?"
Because the clock finally struck 1
I was offered a midnight 650hp Supra runaround Tokyo, and declined...
whatt would you have done ?
Midnight Club? Rockstar bring back this franchise please 🙏
Use to play a car game by rockstar called midnight club
This was actually interesting
Well, good for them sticking to their ideals. When it starts to put the public's lives in danger it becomes a lot more serious and less fun
They never existed. It was made up by some Australian magazine editor (hi performance imports) to get more sales of the magazines and DVDs back around 1999 to 2004.
My whole life I thought this was just a games series on my PlayStation
They disappeared from the public eye
Because it’s night when midnight
I love how every commenter claims to know they’re not disbanded.
If they’re really under the radar, weird that seemingly everyone knows that.
Leave your bias at home
Or they had too mutch publicity and the police were cracking down.
Yoo what about the game tho?? We need a remastered version
well would be weird if the midnight club disappeared over the day i suppose.....
Buzuko were even more dangerous than the yakuza
This guy broke the #1 rule of midnight club
yeah but there are also a multitude of past accidents linked with the midnight club and they likely did not keep that not endangering normal civilians rule at their hearts.
This explains the game franchise
Well, with that many Japanese people driving in a group, this was inevitable.
Lol is this where the name came from those racing games back in the 2000's?
I think that's awesome cars are cool but not if people get hurt because someone wanted to do something stupid that they'll regret immediately
But the group eventually got back together and now race on tracks
If they couldn’t handle the smokeozoku, they shouldn’t have acted like tough bozozoku.
There still around like on speed hunters and other videos at Tsukuba you can see some there cars and there a CZcams channel called rise Yokohama which is the name of a shop that some of the members run also there’s no real evidence of that crash happening other then a British article not even a Japanese one but they don’t street and just stick to track stuff but there was a crash but in 1995 which Masura hosoki who built some of the cars mentioned and he responded with shit happens
So, more than just a video game?!?
Loved this game
They literally made video games around it
Alex forgot that the Midnight Club never disbanded
The 1st rule of fight club is?
So that's why the game was called that
That’s a story they had written yes bikers were killed but not by them they just were forced because of the power of the police
Dude, imagine a GOOD anime about midnight club, something like Tokyo Revngers but a little less shitty
some say its made up,there is no evidence or anything about the crash tho, like if it was a that massive crash and it also involved street racers there must be at least some sort of footage or something. Albons documentary explain a lot about the whole midnight club thing
Because it was passed midnight that's why they disappeared
I think it’s dumb that they promote track racing Only now they started as gangsters. Had multiple games made about them and then went oh no we got in a crash. Well it’s time to give up. I guess they got their inspiration from Mercedes.
I did watch that video im guessing you did as well you missed my point. The name midnight still should mean something other than bow down and obey the rules. I understand somebody died. I understand the conflict that was going but the midnight club should be synonymous with safe street racing, which is still criminal activity, but it’s not drugs it’s not murder it’s not grape It’s following a passion however or wherever you can and unlike them and the rest of the world, the nearest track to me is +350 miles away.
@@mikhilmuhuthan6903 even the games had no sub plot other than race and dont get caught except that one time in midnight club to where you can fire rockets at people mostly just cars
@@oler777 no matter how safe one tries to make street racing, its pretty much always going to endanger innocent lives, which are worth way more than a few minutes of enjoyment every now and then tor us
@@lRedKill3r you are missing the point they were a gang with a code now there just sellouts i have never hurt a single person racing on the street because you do it in mexico not on the i5
@@oler777 the code just proves my point tbh, even with it there are multiple reports of crashes involving them. Also, just because it didnt happen yet, doesnt mean it never will
They arent "sell outs", they just realised how, to truly follow their code of not endangering public property and lifes, they needed to switch things around (besides, its much harder to flee the cops now and its much better to race clean than to risk your life [not only physical])
What street racing should be
Seems to organized. Most likely the government ran the club to mitigate crime to a specific area and allow specific people who are usually high risk for damage. This way they can manage the crime and ensure safety under the guise of anonymity and exclusivity
So deliberately getting it wrong for engagement, or Alex couldn't be bothered to do some basic web searches?
Cars got unnecessarily expensive
Bruh is that where the game idea comes from
I thought it was cause it wasn’t midnight anymore
I thought it was because the sun 🌞 came up.
If you watched Albon's video about this. You know it aint the exact truth. Truth to be told, the incident occurred few years prior.
They had a video game I played a the time
"Don't stop believing"
Why did the midnight club disappear overnight? Duh, It's a midnight club. 😂