It’s cheesy. It’s derivative of Initial D and Fast and Furious . And I absolutely need it in my veins yesterday. Let’s be honest—Netflix isn’t going to make a show about the Honda Civic. The Civic is the everyman hero. The Prelude, however, is the sophisticated older sibling you were a little afraid of.

If you have spent any time in the darker corners of automotive Twitter or the comment sections of Donut Media videos lately, you have probably seen the phrase whispered like a myth: Turbo-Charged Prelude .

The premise, according to leaked (and likely unverified) synopses? Midnight (1980s Tokyo). A disgraced engineer, fired from Honda for pushing the envelope too far, builds a forbidden turbocharged Prelude to win a underground street race that will save his family’s garage.