It was literally never about cars. Cars are always important characters and the main setting of the film, but it's always been about heists and organized crime.
It was about both hence the name Fast AND Furious. But these days they don't even care about the "fast" all they care about is being furious enough to earn the paycheck.
what are they doing in cars again? oh right HEISTS. They're doing heists in cars. They're pulling off furious crimes in fast vehicles... Fast & Furious.
So you don't waste your time, every description: Name of the vehicle, "it really fit the character," "it was a really cool car, "had a lot done to it." *Rinse and repeat*
Yeah, this video was a complete waste of time. He basically just listed all the cars and who drove them and hat was interjected with some horrible beat. What was the point? They should have done a load of 10 minute videos talking about each car properly.
Yeah. total waste of time. I quit half way through. Misleading title also.... "By the guy who built them". Nope. If it was a video with the guys and girls who built these cars, the video would've been interesting. Come on.... we already know what car it is and who drove it. This is not what I came here for.
Could you guys PLEASE release a fuller version where he explains the cars fully? Right now you can tell A LOT is edited out to keep the video short. He talks for like 20 secs then cuts off to the next car. Some times hes in the middle of a sentence.....
xr7fan hahah thats awesome! see, thats why I want the full version. Im curious about the behind the scenes facts about the cars and interesting stories or things that these cars went thru. the things that arent already on google. Like how learning Michelle rodriguez really hated her Jensen Interceptor.
i read on an s2000 forum that a shop employee/owner(?) lent his fully modded show-car s2000 to the movie people and vin diesel wound up crashing and wrecking it. anyone else ever hear about that? i remember because they were selling t-shirts that said "vin diesel wrecked my car" or something like that, and the proceeds would help the guy recoup some funds from his now wrecked showcar.
The R33 was a actual drag car at the time called ''Bigbear'' (I think) and when the USA went to shits when it comes to Skylines, it was confiscated from the owner and crushed, because it had been registered illegaly, the company that did it faked a lot of documents.
I think Tokyo Drift was my favorite movie. Although the main character is kinda dull, the story had its own vibe and style. The music, the car themes and even the race courses. It reminded me of Midnight Club or Need For Speed Carbon. I love it all to be honest.
Jesse's Jettta? You mean the one with the fake brake rotors? I guess that one was too embarassing to even mention. The Monte Carlo from Tokyo Dfrit was also pretty cool and didn't get mentioned.
I know I can. And? He says he's gonna talk about major cars, and mentions Mia's car, that was in, how many? One scene? Whilst Jetta was a rather major plot that caused Jessie to be killed and the Dom v Brian race in the end. I'm not saying "I want to know more about the Jetta", I'm saying Jetta was more important than Integra to the plot.
Thats because civics are slow, insignificant, pieces of garbage... one of the slowest cars in the world... He realized that is was a mistake to feature the civic in a movie with the word "fast" in the title.
Their was this brilliant time when Fast and Furious franchise was about cars and street racing instead of insane action and typical nuclear launch code bullshit
Christopher Robin well there was 1 street race in f8 if thats gonna make you happy and it's not like they are gonna do street racing for 8 movies. Just accept what fast and furious is really about and move on pls
JohnnyTheOG Gunn that's exactly what I was saying every time he mentioned muscle cars he said it was his favorite or one of his favorite lol I peeped that too
The fact that Hector is gonna be running three Honda Civics with Spoon engines. On top of that, he just came into Harry'sm and ordered three T66 turbos with NOS and a Motec system exhaust.
Seems like they told him "sum up the car in 20 seconds." I'm sure he could talk about them for hours, but they corralled him for WIRED. They should do a longer, uncut version, for us car nerds.
If you want to know everything about those cars , search for craiglieberman_42 on Instagram, he was the technical director of the first two movies and the actual original owner of the Supra and skyline. He also has a book where he explains a lot of the franchise .....
Craig liberman: alot of these cars were just Hollywood bullcrap with a reverse wheelie bar to make it look like dom pulls a burnout an a wheelie at the same time Dennis McCarthy: that car really fits the character
I absolutely love that car. Judging by the rest of the comments here, I am also surprised how he was able to miss out one of the most popular cars of all time within the franchise. I hope WIRED make a part two with him. That 350z is eye candy and a machine.
Craig Lieberman actually has a video where he explains that the car that got crushed was a base model Mustang with cosmetic mods to make it look like a Saleen. They only used one real Saleen for the closeups
Yeah, I agree! Also, I’m pretty sure Han’s RX7 was not over 600hp? Barely had half of that. In fact, I swear I saw a video yeah they made mods to that car in which it was SLOWER 0-60 time than factory stock! Wtf hahaha
I love how Tokyo Drift actually had some really customly built cars for the movie. Was really the last Fast that I got into. That RB26 Mustang was so sick, and I remember it getting so much hate, which made it even better hahah.
That Mustang was blasphemy. You just don't do such a thing to a classic. That's American history. You don't just don't rape American history like that.
@@mikenormandy9250 All boomers are stupid like this. there were many popular 70s muscle cars and the cuda was nowhere near it. the cuda looked cool but handled like a locomotive.
That model RX-7 is just one of the most beautiful cars of its time. Still looks amazing. Love the lines and flow. Supra awesome too and others but I’d love to have a same year RX-7 as a weekender.
Sucks that he doesn't know the origin of most of the cars on screen in the first few movies, that inspired the character cars we have now. The Eclipse was a show car - which was an RS (non-turbo) with a turbonetics turbo kit - owned by some Asian dude and was sponsored by several companies at the time: Toyo Tires, Meguiars, Rain X, MA Audio to name a few The Charger was an actual 900hp street king owned by some dude in his 50's (now 60s) - if you look hard enough, there are some street racing videos of this car demolishing just about every car. Yes, it sounds exactly like you hear it in the movies Dom's FD RX-7 - Does in-fact have a 3-Rotor engine. if you slow down the engine CGI you can count 3 spinning rotors to reflect the real-life car. And yes, the sounds of the car when it pulls up to the meeting spot before the race, and when Dom parks in the parking garage, is real. Now it currently sits in the corner of a shop getting restored because after a long amount of years being in shows, the body kit has cracked, paint has dents and scratches, the graphics were removed and the engine was never actually tuned to do anything except drive at 10mph from the trailer to a parking spot. Still has the same Andrew Racing F wheels that are getting refinished too - these are as expensive as any HRE, and heavy as fuck too. The Yellow R33 Skyline GTR - It was named "Big Bird" and was a very controversial car at the time because of importing Skylines at the time was very questionable, no small part to Motorex committing fraud. Unfortunately, Big Bird was seized by ICE and crushed - and afterwards following a pretty long legal battle, the federal government grandfathered every Skyline GTR that entered the US via Motorex, as exempt for meeting any importation law. Too bad Big Bird didn't survive because it was heavily covered in Magazines and video magazines like Option video, it was a very well known car. Letty's 240SX - not much is known about the car, but some have said the 240 was one of the first to have the SR motor swap in the east coast. Some have said it was just a very basic 240SX show car and just had a turbo kit installed and that was it. Supra - one of the only cars the production company actually built from scratch. The "hero" car started off as an N/A MKIV Supra, and was given a Greddy T78 turbo kit. Really Lazy turbo compared to what we have now - but it was an off-the-shelf 800hp capable turbo kit that had an original MSRP of $12k without an ECU. I only remember this, because I was considering buying this exact kit for me and my dads Supra project, but found that HKS had a better twin-turbo kit for the same money, but came with an ECU as well. Cant remember who owns this orange Supra but it has been seen on and off for sale every couple years. Most of the cars in 2Fast2Furious was made by the production company - and the movie was overall terrible for it. You can thank John Singleton for that disaster. The GTR at the time, was only in the movie because it was owned by some dude who lived in Miami - importation laws in Miami are a "grey area" which is why you still see a lot of cars being imported that are younger than 25 years but do not go through the federalization process of crash testing, emissions testing, etc etc. Tokyo Drift was one of the last movies where privately owned cars were still 'scouted' for. Namely the Veilside RX-7. The real car, was a 600hp 13B-REW with a GReddy T78 turbo kit, while its an old turbo it still makes a ton of power. And the sound in the movie is exactly what the car sounds like. That's what a 2-rotor sounds like with some minor port work. No, it does not have a bridge-port, so please ignore some of the rotards that say otherwise. The RWD Evo was a car owned by APR, the company widely known at the time in making a lot of aero products. Not to be confused by "APC" which sold nothing but bullshit "euro tails" and other ricer crap. The 350Z was also built by Veilside, and used a Greddy Twin turbo kit. A lot of the cars drifting in Tokyo drift were legitimate privately owned cars of local drifters of Japan, and in the mountain drifting scene, if you look, the Signal Auto drift team is shown sliding around. After that, the movies became quite corporatized when people realized it was a franchise worth continuing. This when all of the cars in the movies ended up built by the production company. Not to take away anything from the guy being interviewed, I'm sure he knows a lot and was there since the beginning, however the editing of the video takes away A LOT from where these cars actually came from.
rotor13 Really? This guy, a picture car coordinator, that handpicked many cars of the franchise, does not know the origin of most cars in the first few movies?.....
the black s2000 had a vielside kit and wing, some vinyl graphics, a couple bolt-ons and not much more because it was a new-er car at the time and not a lot of parts were available at the time. i posted a comment up top somewhere about an s2000 in one of the later movies, that some guy lent to the movie, and vindielsel wound up wrecking it, and the guy was left assed out.
I love how the cars are made to match their drivers and how they all are different and just how great and unique they are to each person. It’s a great little detail to add to the movie!
You skipped Nice cars from every movie... Where is the jetta,r33 (f&f1), the orange challenger,the rx7,supra (2f2f), DK's 350z,morimoto's fairlady,And tea hairs 350z, Sean's ending Silvia (f&f Tokyo drift), Ford Torino,the yellow BMW,Silvia,g35, (fast4) the GT40,Corvette stingray custom, the cool as truck stealing cars from the train,the blue Porsche,koenigsegg ccx,Lexus LFA(fast5), the M5, the Harley And ducati bikes,Alfa Romeo, (fast6),Bugatti,viper,Maserati, (fast7). Murcielago (fate of the furious)?????
He was an Auto teacher at Burbank before the remodel period and a bit afterwards. He used to own that Autoparts store that usedto be right down the street from Burroughs High. I was freshman at Burroughs before I got transferred to Burbank High
it's a shame what happened to this franchise. It went from actual racing and car culture to mission impossible with cars. I feel like the writers just huff glue and throw out suggestions for what to do next. And the sad part is everyone still spends money to see these movies that make no sense anymore.
It's good, but not great imo. After F4 they went so far off the track, I still only watch the vids for the cars and characters and nostalgia, not for their story or action at all. I couldn't care less about a Russian nuclear submarine lol. Fast5 had some very great moments and compared to the latest movies it was really down to earth xD And still mainly about cars and not stupid crazy heists.
Alan Torres As a business you need to stick to your roots, but also adapt and evolve. Else, there wouldn't be any FF today. They are all amazing movies! And there are very few movie series with so many sequels, and for very good reason.
Eddie Adams Yeah, fuck that guy. I recently got into imports a few months ago. I'm trying to learn more about the parts and shit. My fav is a 04 wrx. God that engine rumble!
If you think about it the films were always about heists. The first one's main scene was the final heist. After that they would do other big jobs and such.
Gotta give this guy props for having great taste. The car choices made the franchise, and he defiantly made the right ones. Like forcing the Jensen Interceptor, and I always thought thats a fantastic choice. The British muscle car.
You can tell that he loves his job, like, who wouldn't want to build cool cars and just do almost ANYTHING that you want, imagine being a kid with legos... the legos for him are the cars.
@Hareesh Sugumar they were both equipped with the mechanism just doesn't use it because bad guy throws a curve ball and changes location on Paul. Don't they?
I grew up watching fast and furious so I wish they would've just kept it about the cars and not turned it into one big cg dodge ad like the last few movies were, just my opinion tho
Yeah there is plenty on the car. It's been in HOTROD like 30 times and everywhere else quite frequently. I just wanted to hear him say David Freiburger or HOTROD Magazine or something.
11:10 the Cuda was a Plymouth, and the Dodge embodiment of that platform at the time (1970, when it was most commonly referred to as a “Cuda”) was the Dodge Challenger (A/K/A the “E-Platform”)
A bunch of what he said didn't make sense. Like when he said another Subaru, unless he thinks Subaru makes the Evo I don't know what the heck he was talking about.
Btw, GT-R was indeed in every single movie...... except F8. Unless there's one hidden in the secret garage. I only saw the Nissan IDx Concept. Btw, I meant as in there was either a Skyline, a Skyline GT-R and a GT-R in the FnF movies; 1: Leon's Skyline R33 GT-R 2. Brian's Skyline R34 GT-R 3. The random R34 GT-R Sean raced in Han's RX-7 4. Brian's Skyline GT-T with GT-R badges and RWD. 5. Brian's KPGC10 Skyline GT-R and the R35 GT-R 6. Again with Brian's silver R35 GT-R (and that RB R35 at the end) 7. Brian's modified blue R35 GT-R 8. ????? (probably wasn't present, the 2 most prominent imports in the movie were both Subarus)
Interesting post - Nice spot with all the Skylines/GT-Rs. There was a GT-R in F8, as you said in the secret garage, its not on screen for long, but definitely there so you can add that to the list :).
4. Had a real R34 GTR hero car but wasn't used for the stunts, hence the GTT was substituted for the harsh scenes. Actual R34 GTR hero car was later sold and shipped to Germany.
After the cars of the first 3 are mentioned, none of the cars in the rest of the video seemed all that interesting. Compared to the first 3 movies of course. Cause those were the movies where the CARS shined and were in the spotlight. None of the cars in the rest of the video come even close to the ones that were in the first 3.
