My review is not influenced by Initial D for any reason. I judged the anime in its own context.
MF Ghost has a problem of having no sense of what kind of person their target audience would be. It's supposed to be about racing and cars right? But then why 90% of the anime is about pervert girls who automatically wishes for romantical relationship with the main guy like it's supposed to be a soap opera that targets teenage girls? These girls in every chance saying "wow he is so hot I wanna throw him and do it" is seems more like whoever wrote the story trying to live their own romantic fantasy and it's cringy. It would be okay if it was a little situation in the anime but 90% of the anime is the main guy and the girl "dating" when the girl try to attract the boy for her but the boy is blind to her advances. The whole element of the anime is the drama of this romance. No surprise the story will obviously turn into a love triangle and romantic tragedy soon after. Only romance in racing genre is the main guy being carsexual just like in Wangan Midnight, no one cares which character has crush on which person in racing/car genre fiction.
So if the race and car part lasts for 5 minutes in the anime, you watch nonsense boring romantical situations for 24 hours. That's the ratio here.
Race aspect is so not cared about they even used some low-quality animation work in race scenes. Basically the animations is like how news channel show how an accident happened with low-quality animations. Cars not moving in a realistic way at all. They slide and drift that's obviously impossible for the law of physics like how a kid makes a car move with their hand so they don't move naturally.
In general visual quality is not good too. Nothing looks eye-pleasing or cool just like how it was in Initial D. At least drawings in Initial D was so bad it looked funny, in MF Ghost they worked on visuals so much it looks too bad for another reason. Everything has unrealistic lights around and everything looks more cartoonish. Everything glows like neon lights. IDK if the art director using prescription glasses and never cleaned their glasses so they believe everything glows because that's how they believe the world looks like.
The story progression is too slow and basically anime's focus on romance bored me to death when naturally I wanted to watch it for race. If I wanted to watch romance I would watch Days of Our Lives.
