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====== Harimau ======

**Harimau International** is a Malaysia-based AG racing team, introduced in the revived modern series of games.

Beginning as a humanitarian group in 2177, the Harimau organisation formed as a response to the global depression following the F9000 collapse, seemingly as a private charitable business to handle recovery of Asian regions from the economic fallout, as well as ecological issues that had remained unresolved for many decades. Harimau's racing team was established soon after the official announcement of the FX300, a fact which was seen by many as a strategic move to expand and capitalise on global attention through the return of professional AG racing.

With an ethos of pursuing world peace, though maintaining efforts to keep their internal team structure concealed, many spectators and critics wondered how Harimau would fit into AG racing, especially with the often violent eliminations the sport could bring and the simultaneous announcement of the FX300 League's other newcomers [[teams:triakis|Triakis]], a multinational corporation in the weapons industry. Despite these concerns, Harimau would establish themselves as a firm fixture in the years to come. By the FX400 era, the team gained further attention via the organisation's "Return of the Tiger" programme, reintroducing many tiger breeds to the world including the iconic Malayan tiger via genetic engineering and cloning a century after their extinction, and clean fuel initiatives including the commitment to 100% biofuel for their racing team's engines, though inevitably speculation and doubt abounded over whether Harimau International was sincere in their ecology efforts, or simply seeking to generate publicity for their own business ends (not unlike some of the publicity stunts of the early iteration of Icaras).

True to their professed ethos, the ships they supplied to their pilots sacrificed armour and shielding in an effort to outwardly display their pacifist nature, and delivering surprisingly competitive engine power and exceptional agility for a purely race-oriented ship in their maiden season. In the transition to the FX350 and FX400, this agility continued to be a focus on development, sacrificing a small amount of acceleration.

===== In WipEout HD =====
==== Technical Information ====

=== Standard Chassis ===
  * Average Top Speed
  * Below average Thrust Acceleration, with minimized launch and slower speed recovery
  * Very responsive Handling, offering a good turning rate and strong cornering grip
  * Below average Shield Capacity

Among the base game, Harimau is the most agile of the unlockable teams, and their combination of turning speed and cornering grip make it a contender against FEISAR's superior handling while also delivering more straight-line speed. The drawback is lower survivability, and that the slightly reduced acceleration makes this ship launch slower at race start and recover slightly slower from tight corners or a dead-stop.

=== Fury Prototype Chassis ===
  * Increased Top Speed brings it in line with Auricom and Triakis
  * Slight improvement to Thrust Acceleration brings it close to average
  * Turning Rate and Shield Capacity remain the same

Engine upgrades compensate for the base chassis' weakness in acceleration, but the most notable feature is the significant increase in speed in combination with its already great handling, putting it towards the top-end teams.