Nobuteru Taniguchi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nobuteru Taniguchi
Occupation	Race Car Driver
Date Of Birth	May 18, 1971(1971-05-18)
Age	53
Birthplace	Hiroshima
Country	Japan
Birth City	Hiroshima Prefecture
Horoscope	Taurus

Nobuteru Taniguchi Biography

Nobuteru Taniguchi is one of the most popular and richest Race Car Driver who was born on May 18, 1971 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Professional drift racer, nicknamed “NOB” who had the most wins at D1 Grand Prix until 2005. Prior to his career in drifting He was a highly popular street racer and Formula 1 racer.

Similar to Like Daigo Saito, he is a famous Japanese drifter. Like Daigo Saito, he is a famous Japanese drifter., he is also an internationally renowned Japanese drifter.

Taniguchi has gone through four cars with HKS for D1, between 2001 and 2005, the RS1 Hyper Silvia S15 (Crashed by Keiichi Tsuchiya, eventually rebuilt for 2002 and later revised as a backup car with a similar build to the RS2 in 2003, later bought by Rockstar Energy to be used in Formula D), and RS2 Hyper Silvia S15 (brought to HKS Europe), the Genki Racing Project Altezza, which was designed with off-the-shelf HKS parts, for the purpose that a private drifter could copy the car. He also drifts in Toyota Aristo (Lexus GS300 in US) for non-D1 events.

Taniguchi started out in street racing with his AE86 when he was with his team ‘After-Fire’ and competed in the various drift competitions like Video Option’s Ikaten, Battle Magazine’s BM-Cup, and CarBoy’s DoriCon GP. Taniguchi won the first season of D1 Grand Prix in 2001 for HKS. However starting in 2002, he didn’t have much chances with the series champion title as he did in 2001 as the series had banned the use of S-tires/Semi-slicks that was occurring the year before but he was doing very well, staying as a seeded driver.

He was married in the year 2011.

Nobuteru Taniguchi Net Worth

Nobuteru Taniguchi is one of the richest Race Car Driver from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nobuteru Taniguchi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He raced minibikes and also was the winner of a race on the Suzuka Circuit. He worked for the bodykit business of Takahiro Ueno.

He was the host of several video car magazines such as Best MOTORing and Hot Version.

Nobuteru Taniguchi (谷口 信輝 , Taniguchi Nobuteru, born May 18, 1971, Hiroshima) is a Japanese racing driver and drifting driver who currently competes in Super GT and D1 Grand Prix. Taniguchi is commonly nicknamed “NOB” (first three letters from his name, meaning “No One Better”) or “The Pimp” as a reference to his S15 Silvia which he is best known for.

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Taniguchi had the most wins in D1 Grand Prix until his tally was overtaken by Youichi Imamura in 2005.

Facts & Trivia

Nobuteru Ranked on the list of most popular Race Car Driver. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Nobuteru Taniguchi celebrates birthday on May 18 of every year.

He has won the 2009 Super Taikyu Championship with his team mate Masataka Yanagida and Fariqe Hairuman in Petronas Syntium Team BMW Z4M Coupé. He also won the A5 petrol class and second overall in 2010 Dubai 24 Hour with his team mate Fariqe Hairuman, Masataka Yanagida and Johannes Stuck in Petronas Syntium Team BMW Z4M Coupé.