MF Ghost inspired me to watch Initial D again because Initial D is just superior anime over MF Ghost.
MF Ghost relies to heavily on nostalgia for Initial D, and the original parts of its own are just too boring to care about. The main character in MF Ghost is entirely unrelatable, he's from another country and comes to Japan to find his dad and just happens to be an amazing driver by the way. While Initial D's main character is a high schooler who's been forced to drive deliveries for his dad and so happened to gain skill in driving because of it, which is much more relatable. While both anime's main characters are rather bland and boring from the outside MFG's has no real drive to do anything beside find his dad while being a complete saint along the way. However our boy Takumi wants to get the girl and eventually wants to become a better driver. MFG's main characters saintly attitude is actually one of his worst traits, because he's flawless we don't get to see him grow or change in anyway so unless he's racing and advancing positions, there feels like there's little to no actual story progression. The secondary, hell even the tertiary characters of initial D have better story arc's then MFG's lead character. (except Iketani.. idiot)
Now then, if you were looking for an Initial D successor for Eurobeat and cool driving you will be sorely disappointed. This anime focuses more on the outside of car related stuff. AKA bad romance and gotta find my dad stuff. The Eurobeat music is subpar to even the least remembered songs in Initial D when it actually plays. Because MFG are sanctioned races there's always an announcer talking during driving scenes and he never shuts the hell up so we can just get car and music.
Unlike most people, I do not like the fact they use a BRZ/GR86/Toyota86/ScionFRS as the leads car of choice, for one its too on the nose. Secondly unlike the Trueno 86, which was even back then just a little old unknown domestic Japanese car. This car is a pure sports car that's still in production and has always been well known. The hero car should have been something else that's very under stated like the GR Yaris or a modern Toyota Corolla, like who the heck would expect a Yaris to compete in the same league as Ferrari's? Though hidden under the hood of a GR Yaris is 310 horsepower like 100 more horsepower than the GR86. It would have that same effect as when Takumi first drove up in his Toyota Corolla, facing off against the most well known Japanese sports cars of the 1990's.
One last note: The MF Angels, girls in tiny bikinis feel like they should all be chicks with dicks or maybe its just the character models that make them look like fem boys.
Overall your better off just rewatch Initial D and all of it's movies and specials over MF Ghost.
