Rival stories focus on personal drives to be the fastest, revealed in parking area interactions, with no romance systems, gender-agnostic dating, or identity exploration as mechanics. Casting features mostly traditional Japanese street names and teams like Rolling Guy or Rhythm Box, with historical female members in prior entries but no source-material swaps. One minor element is the rival Silent Mongoose described exclusively with they/them pronouns on the K-uicks team, alongside a review noting a cross-dresser in a lolita/goth team.

Developer Genki shows no DEI consultancy involvement or activist statements; Steam discussions reference unconfirmed name tweaks like 'white' to 'perfect' amid fears of woke influence, but these remain peripheral. X posts praise the game precisely for lacking gender selections or 'woke characters' found in titles like Forza Horizon. Metacritic shows critic scores of 80-87 against user scores around 7.1 with no major gaps tied to ideology. These isolated pronoun and fashion references qualify as incidental modern touches that do not shape premise, arcs, or themes.