Honestly, regardless of whether or not Chase is Mach, I'm still kind of sad that there's a Kamen Rider in this show with a bike. I thought the idea of being like "oh, there totally is a costumed character in Drive who rides a bike," and then making it a bad guy was a really cute twist.

I was honestly thinking Drive might be a one-Rider show for a second before Mach was announced. It would've fit the Showa throwback feel the show is going for, and made a nice contrast to Gaim, but then it turns out we're just going right back to the Den-O/Double formula.

That being said, how the heck is the dynamic between these three going to work if they are separate characters? Drive and Chase have explicitly been set up as rivals, by the show and the promotional stuff, but then we have Drive and Mach, who are clearly on the fast track to being rivals, what with the shared form.

I'd also like to note after all that negativity that I'm already loving Drive at least as much I did Gaim, and that I'm sure I'll end up liking whatever they do.

I really like the look of Mach in that picture, and so glad that he's not Chase.

There is alot of ways how the Toys could be used in the show. Chase could become a good guy, Mach could start out as a bad guy and then later turn good or Mach having powers that let him control certain kind of machines and thats why he can use Mashin Chasers bike for the combination with his own.

:lol

I've been saying it from the start. There was no way that Proto Drive, Machine Chaser, & Mach were all the same dude. Proto is almost implicitly Chaser. Mach will likely be a brand new character introduced in the teens as many modern rider shows have done since Den-O.

Either way, it's gonna be predictable as fuck like W-Wizard.

I have a feeling Mach is likely going to become good. I personally getting tired of the anti hero secondary riders starting off as the typical badass then becoming friends with the main rider at the end. One reason why I love Baron since he became the show's final villain at the end then just becoming the best friends forever type of guy.

I do hope Mach & Chase are separate. I SO want Mach's identity to be Shinnosuke's old partner.

Make Mach be another Accel and Birth. In my vision, I can see Mach being Hayase found by a mysterious man like Shroud, who helps heal his leg and tests him if he can become Mach and fight alongside Drive. And the mystery man can somehow be connected to the man who created the Drive system.

Drive - Hot Wheels
Mach - Speed Racer

What if the current Chaser is actually a modified human that's being controlled by a Roidmudes? So then the actor currently playing Chaser becomes a 'new' character after being freed. He then become Mach and the Roidmudes stays in chaser form.

It's plausible given that the roidmudes 'take over' the lives of people.

I remember reading from the Episode descriptions of this month that a new Reporter character is being introduced, I think possibly that could be Mach.

Honestly I really do want Hayase to become Mach, he would make a great candidate for a secondary rider and go back to the stuff like Kiva where you know the character who is becoming the secondary Rider.

Just had a crazy thought About Mach and Chaser: What if Mach is Proto-Drive but M-Chaser is the the Proto-Drive shift car turned in a Roidmund?