REBOOT
Because I have gotten a tiny bit better at designing cars and because I didn’t like the lore, I’m redoing Keika with mildly less offensive looking cars. Won’t delete any of the stuff above so you can compare and complain at me when I have actually gotten worse. Anyway…
Keika is a Japanese company, founded in 1966 by Englishman Daniel Chase. Daniel was a Caliban employee, who after having a few… disagreements… with Lord Mach, decided to try and get as far away as possible and do the sports car thing properly.
The name Keika was chosen because it sounded cool to Daniel and then later, while skimming through an English to Japanese dictionary, he found out it was a real word. Delighted by this, he kept the name.
Japan was chosen as the starting place because motorsports was beginning there. With various race tracks under construction, it was the perfect place to set the roots of a sports car company at the time. Also, Daniel really liked the scenery, and was also a huge fan of sake.
With a small loan, Daniel set to work in a garage on the outskirts of Suzuka, constructing an advanced chassis. Most of the money went to contracting a company to build engines for the car, because no other companies had anything to the specification he required, so the rest of the car was rather… low quality. Still, a legend was born in 1966, that would soon lead to one of the best known track car companies in the world*.